VICTORIA.
ANNO QUADRAGESIMO QUARTO
VICTORIA REGINJL
N o . D C X C I .
A n A c t t o a m e n d t h e l a w r e l a t i n g t o t h e U n i - v e r s i t y of M e l b o u r n e .
[ 7 t h . J u n e , 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 ond by the authority of the same as follows :—Repeal of 1.-Except as to anything done or any statute or former Acta regulation made or any right acquired, the Acts mentioned in the Schedule hereto to the extent therein specified shall be repealed.
Short title -• This Act may be cited as " The. University Act
•ndcon- 1881 ;" it and so much ot the Act of the Legislature stniction. of Victoria passed in the sixteenth, year of Her Majesty
and numbered XXXIV. as is not hereby repealed shall be incorporated and read together.
Tenure of •**•• Every person who at the time of the passing of present this Act is a member of the Council of the University councillors, (hereinafter called the council) shall hold office during his life or until the occurrence to him of some of the- events hereinafter mentioned as vacating scats in the council.
Constitn ion 4 The council shall be elected by the senate ot the- ot council. University hereinafter called the senate and shall con-
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
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY. 2 7 of the council : Provided also that the number of such
officers in the council at the same lime shall not exceed three.
5. Except as hereinbefore provided, every membcr Tenure of of the councilshall hold office for five years, but shall c o u n c'l l o r s
be capable ot re-election or re-appointment.
6. If any member of the council by writing under his Office of hand directed to the Chancellor of the University re- {'^vacated sign bis office, or if he bc declared by commission or
otherwise of unsound mind, or if he become insolvent, or if he be convicted of any felony or misdemeanour, or it without special leave previously granted by the council he absent himself from all meetings of the same during six consecutive months, his office shall become vacant.
7. Subject to such regulations as the senate by its Vacancies standing orders may from time to time provide; it shall n o w fllleri- be lawfu' for members of the senate to give tbeir votes a t elections by voting papers.
8. No member ot tho council shall bc entitled to C o m^i"°J9. vote either in the council or in any committee thereof |J.hCre iiltJl' on any subject in which he has a direct pecuniary in- rested, terest, aud the vote of any member so interested shall be disallowed.
9. The. council shall elect two ot its own members phanccilo"' to be chancellor aud vice-chancellor respectively a na of vU-e-
nnnually or whenever a vacancy occurs. chancellor.
10. The senate shall consist of all male (persons who Constitution have been or who may hereafter be admitted to any "'senate.
degree of doctor or master in the said University.
I I . The senate shall elect one of its own members Election ot to be warden annually or whenever a vacancy occurs, warden.
. 12. The senate may amend any statute.or regulation Senate may submitted by the council for their approval and may amend but return the same so amended for the further considera- ^Viies! * tion of the council, but shall not originate any statute
or regulation.
13. Nothing in the sixth section of the Act iucor- Section Onf porated herewith shall be deemed either to restrict the JJ* n 0f io
power of the University to make any statute or regula- restrict cer- tion for the good government l hereof or to impose upon tain powei-s.
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ol the Uni- the council any duty inconsistent with any such statute versity. o r regulation.
What de- 14. Subject to the"statutes and regulations of the cmiferred University the council may after examination confer in any faculty except Divinity any degree diploma certi- ficate 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 tor the admission without examination to any such degree ot any person who may have graduated at any other university : Provided also that all persons who at the time of the passing ot this Act have been admitted to the degree ot Bachelor ot Laws may sub- ject to the statutes of the University as soon as they have been during five years engaged in the practice ot their profession as barristers or attorneys be admitted without further examination to the degree of Master ot Laws. . .
16. The provisions of this Act and of the Act with which itis incorporated shall except as aforesaid extend to both sexes, and every person who has fulfilled the conditions prescribed by the statutes and regulations of ihe University for the time being for matriculation or for admission to any degree diploma certificate or license may be admitted to majriculate or to such degree, or may receive such diploma certificate or license as the case may be : But the council may if it thinks fit ex- clude females from attendance at any lectures, but not from any examination in the University.
This Act to apply to both sexes.
SCHEDULE.
D a t e of Aet.
16 Vict. No. M . .
N o . 525
Title of Act,
, An Act to incorporate und endow the University of Melbourne.1*
" A n Act to enable the Council ofi/te University of Melbourne to confer heuref* in Surgery,'*
Extent of Repeal.
Sections 2, 3, 10.
The words "during the month of May'*
in section 14.
The whole.
