Section 30: Interpretation.

In this Act -

"campus" means any campus which may be established by the University;

"college" means a college established under section 4 (l) (b) of this Act for the University;

"Council" means the Governing Council of the University established in section 6 of this Act;

"functions" includes powers and duties;

"graduate" means a person on whom a degree, other than an honorary degree, has been conferred by the University and any other person as may be designated as a graduate by the Council, acting in accordance with the recommendation of the Senate;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for 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 the 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 the University;

"regulations" means regulations made by the Senate or the Council;

"Senate" means the Senate of the University established under section 3 (l) (c) of this Act;

"school" means a unit of closely related academic programmes;

"statute" means a statute made by the University under section 12 of this Act and in accordance with the provisions of section 13 of this Act and "the Statutes" means all such Statutes as are in effect;

"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 registered as a student undergoing a course of study for a first degree of the University or such other course in the University as may be approved by the Senate as qualifying a student undergoing it for the status of an undergraduate; and

"University" means the Federal University of Technology and Environmental Sciences, lyin Ekiti, established in section 1 of this Act.