Section 29: Interpretation

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say-
"campus" means the campus of the University;
"college" means any college which may be established by the unversity;
"Council" means the Council established by this Act for the University;
"former Law" means the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Law 1991;
"former University" means the Nnamdi Azikiwe University established under the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Law 1991;
"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 higher education;
"notice" means notice in writing;
"officer" does not include the Visitor;
"prescribed" means prescribed by statutes 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;
"regulations" means regulations made by the senate;
"Senate" means the Senate of the University established pursuant to section 3 (1) (c) of this Act;
"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;
"student" means an undergraduate and any person of such description as may be prescribed for the purposes of this Act;
''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; and
(b) a person of such description as may be prescribed for the purposes of the definition;
"University" means the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, reconstituted by this Act.
(2) It is hereby declared that where, in any provisions 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.