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Subject to the provisions of this Act, the University shall have the following powers and functions namely:- (i) to administer and manage the University and such other centres for study, research, education, professional training and instructions as are necessary for the furtherance of the objects of the University: (ii) to provide for instruction in such branches of legal knowledge or learning pertaining to law as the University may think fit, including legal and other disciplines, and to make provisions for research and for the advancement and dissemination of legal knowledge; (iii) to organize and undertake extra-mural and practice oriented teaching, distance learning and consultancy and extension services; (iv) to hold examinations and to grant titles, diplomas or certificates, and to confer degrees and other academic or honorary distinctions on persons subject to such conditions as the University may determine and to withdraw or cancel diplomas, certificates, degrees and other academic distinctions or other distinctions under conditions that may be prescribed by regulations after giving the persons affected thereby a reasonable opportunity to show cause why it shall not be withdrawn or cancelled; (v) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner and subject to such conditions as may be laid down in the regulations; (vi) to fix, demand and receive fees and other charges; (vii) to institute and maintain halls and hostels and to recognize places of residence for the students of the University and to withdraw such recognition accorded to any such place or residence; (viii) to establish such special centres, specialized study centres or other units for research and instruction within Kerala and elsewhere as are, in the opinion of the University, necessary for the furtherance of its objects; (ix) to establish and maintain such departments, centres in various branches of study as it deems fit for the furtherance of its objects; (x) to supervise and control the residence and to regulate the discipline of the students of the University; (xi) to make such arrangement in respect of residence, discipline and teaching of women students; (xii) to create academic, technical, administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto; (xiii) to regulate and enforce discipline among the employees of the University and to take such disciplinary measures as may be deemed necessary; (xiv) to institute professorships, associate professorships, assistant professorships, readerships, lectureships and any other teaching, academic or research posts required by the University; (xv) to appoint persons as professors, associate processors, assistant professors, readers, lecturers or other teachers and researchers of the University; (xvi) to institute and award fellowship, scholarship, prizes and medals; (xvii) to provide for printing, re-production and publication of periodicals, treatises, study books, reports, journals and other literature on all subjects and organize exhibitions; (xviii) to sponsor and undertake research in all aspects of law, justice, other disciplines and social development and to promote inter disciplinary approach; (xix) to co-operate with any other organization including any Government in the matter of education, training and research in law, justice, national development, management, technology and allied subjects for such purposes as may be agreed upon on such terms and conditions as the University may, from time to time determine; (xx) to co-operate with institutes of higher learning in any part of the world having objects wholly or partially similar to those of the University by exchange of teachers and scholars and generally in such manner as may be conducive to the common objects; (xxi) to regulate the expenditure and to manage the accounts of the University; (xxii) to establish and maintain within the University's premises or elsewhere, such class rooms and study halls as the University may consider necessary and adequately furnish the same and to establish and maintain such libraries and reading rooms as may appear convenient or necessary for the University; (xxiii) to receive grants, subventions, subscriptions, donations, endowments and gifts for the purposes of the University, consistent with the objects for which the University is established; (xxiv) to purchase, take on lease or accept as gifts or otherwise any property, movable or immovable, or building or works which may be necessary or convenient for the purpose of the University and on such terms and conditions as it may think fit and proper and to construct or alter and maintain any such building or works; (xxv) to sell, exchange, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any portion of the properties of the University, movable or immovable, on such terms as it may think fit and proper without prejudice to the interest and activities of the University; (xxvi) to draw and accept, to make and endorse, to discount and negotiate, Government of India and other promissory notes, bills of exchange cheques or other negotiable instruments; (xxvii) to execute conveyances, transfers, reconveyances, mortgages, leases, licenses and agreements in respect of property, movable or immovable, including Government securities belonging to the University or to be acquired for the purposes of the University; (xxviii) to appoint in order to execute an instrument or transact any business of the University, any person as it may deem fit; (xxix) to give up and to cease, from carrying on any classes or departments of the University; (xxx) to enter into any agreement with Central government, State Governments, the Government of any Union Territory, the University Grants Commission or any foreign Government or Universities or Institutions or other authorities for receiving grants; (xxxi) to accept grants or money, securities or property of any kind on such terms as prescribed by regulations made under this Act; (xxxii) to raise and borrow money on bonds, mortgages, promissory notes or other obligations or securities founded or based upon all or any of the properties and assets of the University or without any securities and upon such terms and conditions as it may think fit and to pay out of the funds of the University, all expenses incidental to the raising of money and to repay and redeem any money borrowed; (xxxiii) to invest the funds of the University or money entrusted to the University in or upon such securities and in such manner as it may deem fit and from time to time transpose any investment; (xxxiv) to make such regulations as may, from time to time, be considered necessary for regulating the academic matters, the affairs administration financial dealings and the management of the University and to alter modify and to rescind them; (xxxv) to constitute subject to the provisions of any law in force for the benefit of the academic, technical, administrative and other staff, in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by regulations, such as provident fund and gratuity as it may deem fit and to make such grants as it may think fit for the benefit of any employee of the University, and to aid in establishment and support of the associations, institutions, fund, trusts and conveyance calculated to benefit the staff and the students of the University; (xxxvi) to constitute a students Council in such manner as shall be prescribed by the regulations to organize students academic, sports, arts and cultural activities and for the overall well being and welfare of the students; (xxxvii) to delegate all or any of its powers to the Vice-Chancellor or to any committee or sub-committee or to any one or more members of its body or its officers; (xxxviii) to do all such other acts and things as the University may consider necessary conducive or incidental to the attainment or enlargement of the aforesaid objects or anyone of them.