Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Bihar in the Twenty-seventh year of the Republic of India as follows:-
[Comments.-This Act has undergone various changes from time to time. While some amendments have been brought by the Act of Legislature, many amendments were introduced through Ordinances and continued for a long period, before being given the shape of an Act of Legislature. Reference may be made to Amending Acts 68 of 1982, 3 of 1990, 9 of 1992, 17 of 1993, 12 of 1995, 16 of 1996, 8 of 1998 & 14 of 1998, while some of the Amending Acts were in both, Hindi and English languages, some of them were published only in Hindi, since some of the Ordinances preceding such Acts as were published only in Hindi. Where having both the texts Hindi and English, by comparing the Hindi text of the Act with the Hindi text of the Ordinance English text could be extracted, where the two Hindi texts tallied exactly or involved minor translation. But where the two texts did not tally, Hindi version of the amendment has been incorporated].

1. Short title and commencement -
(1) This Act may be called the Bihar Universities Act, 1976.
(2) It shall come into force atonce.