50Statutes

50 Statutes

(1) The Council may make Statutes, not inconsistent with this Act or the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013, prescribing matters: (a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed by the Statutes; or (b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed by the Statutes for carrying out or giving effect to this Act. (2) The powers of the Council under subsection (1) include, but are not limited to, the power to make Statutes with respect to the following matters: (a) the management, good government and discipline of the University; (b) the imposition, by or on behalf of the University, of penalties upon: (i) students of the University; or (ii) persons employed by the University; for contravention of, or failure to comply with, a Statute made under paragraph (a); (c) the method of any election provided for by this Act, and the determination of questions raised in relation to the conduct or result of any such election; (d) the persons who are to be regarded, for the purposes of this Act, as members of the academic staff of the Institute or as members of the academic staff of The Faculties; (e) the persons who are to be regarded, for the purposes of this Act, as undergraduate students, or postgraduate students, of the University; (f) in relation to each University body: (i) the manner and time of convening, holding and adjourning its meetings; (ii) voting at such meetings (including postal or proxy voting); (iii) disclosure of pecuniary interests at meetings of the Convocation; and (iv) the appointment, powers and duties of chairpersons at such meetings; (v) the conduct and recording of business at such meetings; (vi) the appointment of committees of the University body; and (vii) the quorums for meetings of committees mentioned in subparagraph (vi), and the powers and duties of such committees; (g) the resignation of the following persons: (i) the Chancellor; (ii) the Pro‑Chancellor; (iii) any person holding an executive office; (h) the exercise and performance by a Deputy Vice‑Chancellor, in specified circumstances, of the powers and duties of the Vice‑Chancellor; (i) the tenure of the holder of any office or place established by or under this Act in respect of which this Act does not: (i) specify a term of office; or (ii) provide for the fixing of the term of office otherwise than by the Statutes; (j) the employment of members of staff of the University, including the terms and conditions of such employment and the termination of such employment; (k) the appointment of persons to positions of responsibility within the University, the terms and conditions of such appointments and the termination of such appointments; (l) the admission and enrolment of students; (m) the times, places and manner of holding lectures, classes and examinations, and the number and character of such lectures, classes and examinations; (n) the promotion and extension of University teaching; (o) the granting of degrees, diplomas, certificates and honours; (p) the granting of fellowships, scholarships, exhibitions and bursaries; (q) the conferring, on persons who hold degrees, diplomas or other awards granted by other institutions, of any corresponding degree, diploma or other award of the University without examination; (r) the exemption of persons undertaking a course leading to a degree, diploma or other award from the requirement to undertake particular work that would otherwise be required to be undertaken for the purposes of that course and the grant of status in respect of that work, whether or not on condition that other work be undertaken instead of the work the subject of the exemption; (s) the admission of members of Convocation; (t) the admission of persons who are undertaking or have undertaken studies at another institution to a corresponding status within the University; (u) the payment to the University of fees, including student contribution amounts and tuition fees within the meaning of the Higher Education Support Act 2003; (v) the establishment, management and control of libraries, laboratories and museums in connection with the University; (w) the establishment or affiliation of residential colleges; (x) the affiliation or admission to the University of any education or research establishment; (y) the control and investment of the property of the University; (z) the provision of superannuation or similar benefits for, and for the families of, persons holding executive office and other persons employed by the University. (3) The Statutes may empower any authority (including the Council) or officer of the University to make rules or orders, not inconsistent with this Act or with any Statute: (a) regulating, or providing for the regulation of, any specified matter (being a matter with respect to which Statutes may be made); or (b) for carrying out or giving effect to the Statutes. (4) A rule or order so made has the same force as a Statute. (5) Subsection (3) does not permit the making of rules or orders: (a) regulating, or providing for the regulation of, a matter referred to in subsection 51(1); or (b) for carrying out or giving effect to a Statute dealing with a matter referred to in subsection 51(1) except to the extent that the rules or orders are made with respect to the discipline of the University and provide for the enforcement of such a Statute.