VICTORIA.
AtfNO QUADEAGESIMO QUAETO
VICTORIA REGIN.E.
No. DCXCI.
An Act to amend the law relating to tbe Uni- versity of Melbourne.
[7th June 1881.]
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E it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Ma- jesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—1. Except as to anything done or any statnte or Repeal of regulation made or any right acquired, the Acts termer Acts, mentioned in tbe Schedule hereto to the extent therein
specified shall be repealed.
2. This Act may be cited as "The University Act Short title 1881 " ; it and so much of the Act of the Legislature an<1 """
of Victoria passed in the sixteenth year of Her Majesty ' m e on' and numbered XXXIV. as is not hereby repealed shall be incorporated and read together. .
3. Every person who at the time of the passing of Tenure ol this Act is a member of the Conncil of the University present (hereinafter called the council) shall hold office during "•"•d'10"- his life or until the occurrence to him of some of the events hereinafter mentioned as vacating seats in the council.
4. The council shall be elected by the senate of the Comtitntion University hereinafter called the senate and shall con- ot council, sist of twenty male members: Provided that notwith-
standing any law to the contrary no person who holds any salaried office in the University as a dean of faculty professor lecturer or examiner shall on that account be incapable of being elected and of serving as a member
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M E L B O U R N E U N I V E R S I T Y .Tenure of councillors.
of. the conncil: Provided also that the number of such officers in the council at the same time shall not exceed three.
5. Except as hereinbefore provided, every member of the council shall bold office for five years, but shall be capable of re-election or re-appointment.
Office of 6. If any member of the council by writing under his councillor hand directed to the Chancellor of the University re- howvoeated. 8jgn nia office, or if he be declared by commission or
otherwise of unsound mind, or if he become insolvent, or if he be convicted of any felony or misdemeanour, or if without special leave previously granted by the council he absent himself from all meetings of the same during six consecutive months, his office shall be- come vacant.
7. Subject to snch regulations as the senate by its standing orders may from time to time provide, it shall be lawful for members of the senate to give their votes at elections by voting papers.
8. No member of the council shall be entitled to vote cither in the council or in any committee thereof on any subject in which he has a direct pecuniary in- terest, and the vote of any member so interested shall be disallowed.
9. The council shall elect two of its own members to be chancellor and vice-chancellor respectively annually or whenever a vacancy occurs.
10. The senate shall consist of all male persons who have been or who may hereafter be admitted to any degree of doctor or master in the said University.
11. The senate shall elect one of its own members to be warden annually or whenever a vacancy occurs.
12. The senate may amend any statute or regulation submitted by the conncil for their approval and may return the same so amended for the further considera- tion of the council, but shall not originate any statute or regulation.
13. Nothing in the sixth section of the A c t incor- porated herewith shall be deemed either to restrict the power of the University to make any statute or regula- tion for the good government thereof or to impose upon Vacancies
bow filled.
Councillors not to vote -where Inte- rested.
Election of chancellor and of vice- chancellor.
Constitution of senate.
Election ot warden.
Senate may amend but not originate statutes.
Section 6 of 16 Vict No.
84 not to restrict cer- tain powers
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the conncil any duty inconsistent with any such statute ot the Unl-
or regulation. versity.
14. Subject to the statutes and regulations of the what de- University the conncil may after examination confer in srees may be any faculty except Divinity any degree diploma certi- c o e r r ' flcate or license which can now be conferred by any
university in the British dominions : Provided that the University may make such statutes or regulations as it thinks fit for the admission without examination to any such degree of any person who may have graduated at any other university: Provided also that all persons who at the time of the passing of this Act have been admitted to tbe degree of Bachelor of Laws may sub- ject to the statutes of the University as soon as they have been during five years engaged in the practice of their profession as barristers or attorneys be admitted without further examination to tbe degree of Master of Laws.
15. The provisions of this Act and of the Act with This Act to which it is incorporated shall except as aforesaid extend JPrtr *°
to both sexes, and every person who has fulfilled the sexea, conditions prescribed by the statutes and regulations of
the University for the time being for matriculation or for admission to any degree diploma certificate or license may be admitted to matriculate or to such degree, or may receive such diploma certificate or license as the case may be : But the council may ii it thinks fit ex- clude females from attendance at any lectures, but not from any examination in the University.
SCHEDULE.
Date of Act
16 Vict. No. 34 . .
2To.fiS5 . .
Title of Act.
" A n A ct to incorporate and endow the University of Melbourne.'*
"An Act to enable the Council of the University of Melbourne to confer Degrees in Surgery,7*
Extent of Kepeal.
Sections 2, 3, 10.
The words "during the month of May n
In section 14.
The whole.
