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Powers of the Senate. — In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by section 16, the Senate shall have the following powers, namely:- (1) to make statutes and amend or repeal the same; (2) to modify or cancel ordinances and regulations in the manner prescribed by this Act; (3) to co-operate with other Universities, other academic authorities and colleges in such manner and for such purposes as it may determine; (4) to provide for instruction and training in such branches of learning as it may think fit; (5) to institute and maintain institutes of research, University colleges, University laboratories, libraries and museums; (6) to prescribe in consultation with the Academic Council the conditions for approving colleges or institutions in which provision is made for courses of study for admission to the Pre-University examination or for the preparation of students for titles or diplomas of the University and to withdraw such approval; 18 (7) to provide for research and advancement and dissemination of knowledge; (8) to institute, after consultation with the Academic Council, lectureships, readerships, professorships and any other teaching posts required by the University; (9) to prescribe in consultation with the Academic Council, the conditions for affiliating colleges to the University and to withdraw affiliation from colleges; 1[(9-A) to prescribe in consultation with the Academic Council, the manner in which and the conditions subject to which a college may be designated as an autonomous college and such designation may be cancelled.] (10) to provide after consultation with the Academic Council such lectures and instructions for students of University colleges, affiliated colleges and approved colleges as the senate may determine and also to provide for lectures and instructions to persons not being students of colleges and to grant diplomas to them; (11) to provide for the inspection of all colleges and hostels; (12) to institute degrees, titles, diplomas and other academic distinctions; (13) to confer degrees, titles, diplomas and other academic distinctions on persons who— (a) shall have pursued an approved course of study in a University college or laboratory or in an affiliated or approved college or have been exempted there from in the manner prescribed and shall have passed the prescribed examinations of the University; or (b) shall have carried on research under conditions prescribed;