Section 25: Interpretation

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
"campus" means any campus which may be established by each University;
"college" means any college which may be established by each University;
"Council" means the Council established pursuant to section 2 (1) (b) of this Act for each University;
"graduate" means a person on whom a degree, other than an honorary degree, has been conferred by each University;
"Minister" means the Minister charged with responsibility for matters relating to higher education;
"notice" means notice in writing;
"officer" does not include the Visitor;
"prescribed" means prescribed by statute or regulations;
"professor" means a person designated as a professor of each University in accordance with provisions made in that behalf by statute or by regulations;
"property" includes rights, liabilities and obligations;
"provisional council" means the provisional council appointed for each University by the President with effect from 1 August, 1980;
"regulations" means regulations made by the Senate or the Council;
"Senate" means the Senate of each 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 each University under section 10 of this Act and in accordance with the provisions of section 11 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 each University;
"undergraduate" means a person in statu pupillari at each University other than-
(a) a graduate; and
(b) a person of such description as may be prescribed for the purpose of the definition;
"University" means any of the Federal Universities of Technology established under section 1 of this Act.
(a) a graduate; and
(b) a person of such description as may be prescribed for the purpose of the definition; "University" means any of the Federal Universities of Technology 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 proposals or recommendations 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.