[1] It was the act number 16 of 1915, and came into force from 1 April 1916 on being published in the Gazette of India on 23 March 1916.

[5] On 22 March 1915, then Education Minister Harcourt Butler introduced the Benares Hindu University Bill.

that it will be a teaching and residential University; secondly, that while it will be open to all castes and creeds, it will insist upon religious instructions for Hindus, and thirdly, that it will be conducted and managed by the Hindu community and almost entirely by non-officialsThe bill was passed on 1 October 1915.

[1] The Statutes in force at the commencement of the university were added into the BHU act as a schedule vide an amendment in 1966.

[8] The statutes of the university are published on the official website, and are not usually added to the Act document.