means a higher education institution providing higher education and with a scope and range of operations, including undergraduate and postgraduate higher education programmes, research and community engagement, which meets the criteria for recognition as a university as prescribed by the Minister under section 69(d) and—
| (a) | established, merged, converted, deemed to have been established or declared as a public university; or |
| (b) | registered as a private university, in terms of this Act; |
[Definition substituted by section 1(u) of Notice No. 21, GG 40548, dated 17 January 2017]