Research Funding Rules

Amendment, Removal of Difficulties, Supersession
of Earlier Decisions, Interpretation, Public Access

1. The Research Projects Committee may, by a simple resolution passed at any of its meetings, amend any part of these Rules, including the Annexures, whereafter the amendment shall come into effect from the date of the meeting, unless otherwise provided for in the amendment.
   
   Provided that
   (a) an amendment of the Rule which in any way affects the powers and functions of the Council shall not come into effect without approval of the Council; and it shall, if approved by the Council, be effective only from the date of such approval, unless another date for its coming into effect is specified in the amendment; and
   (b) the Council may by a simple resolution amend these Rules, or modify an amendment proposed by the Research Projects Committee under the preceding proviso, such amendment or modified amendment to come into effect from the date of the meeting of the Council, unless otherwise provided for in the amendment.
   
2. If in a particular case it should appear that certain provisions of these Rules are mutually inconsistent, or cannot be implemented owing to certain special circumstances, or, if implemented, may cause undue hardship or difficulty, the Chairman may, for reasons to be recorded by him, suspend the operation of specific provisions of these Rules in a particular case or a particular set of cases, and report the said suspension to the next meeting of the Research Projects Committee, which may decide to confirm the suspension by an appropriate amendment of these Rules or to terminate it.
   
3. (a) These Rules supersede all previous decisions of the Research Projects Committee to the extent that such decisions are inconsistent with these Rules.
   (b) Should it transpire that any provision of these Rules are inconsistent with any decision of the Council, the latter shall prevail, until the Council shall have accorded its approval to these Rules, whereafter any previous decisions of the Council inconsistent with these Rules shall stand superseded.
   
4. (a) Notwithstanding anything contained in Clause 1, Annexures to these Rules may also be amended by the Chairman who shall then report the amendment to the Research Projects Committee.
   (b) Should there appear any inconsistency between the provisions of any clause of these Rules and anything contained in the said Annexures, the former shall be prevail.
   
5. Should any dispute about interpretation of these Rules arise, the interpretation given by the Chairman shall be followed.
   Provided that any person aggrieved by the said interpretation may represent to the Research Projects Committee whose decision in the matter shall be final.
   
6. A copy of these Rules, with all amendments made therein from time to time, shall be kept in the Library of the ICHR, to be made available to public during working hours