Section 15. Terms of Office of Executive Council

15. (1) Where a person has become a member of the Executive Council by reason of the office or appointment the holds, his membership shall terminate when he ceases to hold that office or appointment. (2) A member of the Executive Council shall cease to be a member thereof if he resigns or becomes of unsound mind or becomes insolvent or is convicted of a criminal offence involving moral turpitude or-if member other than the Vice Chancellor or a member of a faculty accepts a full time appointment in the University or if he fails to attend three consecutive meeting of the Executive Council without the leave granted by the Chairperson of the Executive Council or acts against the interests of the University. (3) Members of the Executive Council shall relinquish their membership on the expiry of three years from the date on which they become members of the Executive Council unless the membership of the Executive Council is previously terminated as provided in the foregoing sub-sections but shall be eligible for re-nomination or appointment, as the case may be. (4) A member of the Executive Council other than ex-officio member may resign his office by a letter addressed to the Chairperson of the Executive Council and such resignation shall take effect as soon as it has been accepted by the Chairperson of the Executive Council. (5) Any vacancy in the Executive Council shall be filled either by appointment or nomination, as the case may be, by the respective authority empowered to make such appointment or nomination and on the expiry of the period of the vacancy such appointment or nomination shall cease to be effective.