Section 28: Interpretation

(1)
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
"campus" means any campus which may be established by the University;
"college" means any college which may be established by the University;
"Council" means the Council established pursuant to section 2 (1) (b) of this Act for the University;
"graduate" means a person on whom a degree, other than an honorary degree, has been conferred by the University;
"Minister" means the Minister charged with responsibility for matters relating to higher education;
"notice" means notice in writing;
"office" does not include the Visitor;
"prescribed" means prescribed by Statutes or regulations;
"President" means the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria;
"professor" means a person designated as a professor of the University in accordance with provisions made in that behalf by Statute or by regulations;
"property" includes rights, liabilities and obligations;
"regulations" means regulations made by the Senate or the Council;
"Senate" means the Senate of the University established pursuant to section 2 (1) (c) of this Act;
"school" means a unit of closely related academic programmes;
"Statute" means a Statute made by the University under section 11 of this Act and in accordance with the provisions of section 12 of this Act, and "the Statutes" means all such Statutes as are in force from time to time;
"teacher" means a person holding a full-time appointment as a member of the teaching or research staff of the University;
"undergraduate" means a person in statu pupillari at the University other than-
(a) a graduate; or
(b) a person of such description as may be prescribed for the purposes of the definition;
"University" means the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi established under section 1 of this Act.
(2)
It is hereby declared that where in any provision of this Act it is laid down that proposals are to be submitted or a recommendation is to be made by one authority to another through one or more intermediate authorities, it shall be the duty of every such intermediate authority to forward any proposal or recommendation received by it in pursuance of that provision to the appropriate authority; but any such intermediate authority may, if it thinks fit, forward therewith its own comments thereon.