83Conferral of degrees and granting of other awards—persons enrolled as student of University of Ballarat

83 Conferral of degrees and granting of other awards—persons enrolled as student of University of Ballarat

(1) For a period of 6 years commencing on 1 January 2014, the Council may confer a degree or grant a diploma, certificate, licence or other award in the name of the University of Ballarat if—

(a) the person being admitted to that degree or being granted that diploma, certificate, licence or award—

(i) was, immediately before 1 January 2014, enrolled as a student of the University of Ballarat in a course leading to that degree, diploma, certificate, licence or award; and

(ii) fulfilled the prescribed conditions after that date; and

(b) had the person fulfilled the prescribed conditions before that date, the Council would have had the power, under the university statutes and university regulations in force at that time, to confer that degree or grant that diploma, certificate, licence or award in the name of the University of Ballarat; and

(c) subject to subsection (2), the person has requested in writing that the degree, diploma, certificate, licence or award be conferred or granted in the name of the University of Ballarat.

(2) A request under subsection (1)(c) must be submitted to the University within the time and be in the form determined by the Council.

(3) The Council must ensure that each person who is able to make a request under subsection (1)(c) is notified of that ability in accordance with subsection (4).

(4) A notification under subsection (3) must—

(a) be in the manner determined by the Council; and

(b) allow sufficient time for the person notified to make the request in accordance with subsection (2).

(5) In this section—

prescribed conditions, in relation to a degree or a diploma, certificate, licence or other award, means the conditions prescribed under the university statutes and university regulations that must be fulfilled for that degree to be conferred or for that diploma, certificate, licence or award to be granted (as the case may be).

S. 84
inserted by No. 50/2013 s. 10.