Section 3: Incorporation of the Institute.⎯ (l) The Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design,

3. Incorporation of the Institute.⎯ (l) The Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design, Lahore shall, from the date of publication in the official Gazette of notification in this behalf, stand reconstituted as the Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design having degree awarding status. (2) The Institute shall consist of (a) the Chancellor, the Pro­Chancellor, the members of the Senate and the Vice­Chancellor; (b) the members of the Authorities of the Institute established under section 15; (c) all institute teachers and persons recognized as students of the Institute in accordance with terms prescribed from to time; and (d) all other full­time officers and members of the staff of the Institute. (3) The Institute shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal and may by the said name sue and be sued. (4) The present regular or full time employees of the Institute shall continue to be employed under this Act under existing terms and conditions not less favourable than those prevailing at present, (5) The Institute shall be competent to acquire and hold property, both movable and immovable, and to lease, sell or otherwise transfer any movable and immovable property which may have become vested in or been acquired by it. (6) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the Institute shall have academic, financial and administrative autonomy, including the power to employ officers, teachers. and other employees on such terms as may be prescribed, subject to the terms of this Act and the Higher Education Commission Ordinance, 2002 (LIII of 2002). In particular, and without prejudice to the authority granted to the Commission by the law, the Government or an authority or auditor appointed by the Government shall have no power to question the policy underlying the allocation of resources approved by the Senate in the annual budget of the Institute. (7) All properties, rights and interests of whatever kind, used, enjoyed, possessed, owned or vested in, or held in trust by or for the Institute and liabilities legally subsisting against the Institute shall pass to the Institute reconstituted under this Act. (8) The Institute shall follow the guidelines and policy directives, as the Federal Government may issue, from time to time, for achieving the purposes of this Act.

Effective date: 2011-01-01

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