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Repeal
Schedule.

Officers under Acts hereby repealed.

Regulations or by-laws

under Acts

hereby repealed.

Interpretation.

PART I.
Preliminary.

1. This Act may be cited as the "University and University Colleges Act, 1900," and is divided into Parts and Divisions, as follows:

PART I.-Preliminary.—ss. 1-5.

PART II.-Incorporation and constitution of the Univer-
sity and provisions relating to the Senate.-88. 6-18.
PART III.-Examinations and degrees.—ss. 19-23.
PART IV.-Endowment and finance.—88. 24-29.

PART V.-Students, licensed masters, and privileged
officers.-88. 30-32.

PART VI.-Colleges within the University

Division 1.-Interpretation.-8. 33.

Division 2.-Endowment and subscribed fund—
(i.) Conditions of endowment.—88. 34, 35.
(ii.) Endowment for building.—s. 36.
(iii.) Endowment for principal.-88. 37-39.
(iv.) Interest on subscribed fund.-8. 40.

Division 3.-Government of students.—8. 41.

2. (1) The Acts mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are, to the extent therein expressed, hereby repealed.

(2) All persons elected or appointed under the Acts hereby repealed, and holding office at the time of the passing of this Act, shall continue in office as if this Act had been in force at the time they were appointed, and they had been appointed hereunder.

(3) All regulations or by-laws made under the authority of any Act hereby repealed, and being in force at the time of the passing of this Act, shall be deemed to have been made under the authority of this Act, and references in such regulations to the provisions of any Act hereby repealed shall be deemed to be references to the corresponding provisions of this Act.

3. In this Act, unless the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires,

"Bachelor

means any person upon whom the degree of Bachelor has been conferred by the University. "Doctor" means any person upon whom the degree of Doctor has been conferred by the University. "Fellow means a member of the Senate.

"Leaving Certificate" means

Act No. 52, of 1912,

(1) the leaving certificate granted by the Depart- sect. 2. ment of Public Instruction on the recommendation of the Board of Examiners, in pursuance of regulations under the Public Instruction Act of 1880, and the Acts amending it, to a student leaving a secondary or high school which he has attended; or

(2) a leaving certificate granted by the Department of Public Instruction on the recommendation of the Board of Examiners to a student leaving a school-(registered under the Bursaries Endowment Act, 1912, and not under the Department of Public Instruction)-who has complied with the conditions prescribed for the leaving certificate granted in pursuance of regulations under the Public Instruction Act of 1880 and the Acts amending it.

"Board of Examiners" means a board of not less than eight persons appointed by the Governor, being four officers of the Department of Public Instruction, and not less than four professors or other teachers of the University nominated by the Senate.

Act No. 52 of 1912,

"Master" means any person upon whom the degree
of Master has been conferred by the University.
'Minister" means Minister of Public Instruction.
"Exhibition " means public exhibition awarded to sect. 2.
a student who intends to graduate in the Uni-
versity.

"Governor "" means the Governor in Council.

"University" means the University of Sydney,

Act not to
interfere

with rights
of Her
Majesty
14 Vic. No.

31, s. 24.
Women to

be admitted

to Univer

sity privi

leges.

47 Vic. No. 17, s. 8.

4. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to affect or interfere with any right, title, or interest of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, or in any way to limit the Royal Prerogative.

5. The benefits and advantages of the University, and the provisions of this and any other Act relating thereto, shall be deemed to extend in all respects to women equally with men.

The University of

31, s. 1.

PART II.

Incorporation and constitution of the University and provisions relating to the Senate.

6. The University of Sydney is the body politic and 14 Vic. No. corporate incorporated by that name under the Act fourteenth Victoria number thirty-one, and shall, by that name, have a perpetual succession and a common seal and power to sue and be sued, and to take, purchase, and hold all real and personal property whatsoever, whether the same is situate in New South Wales or elsewhere, and to grant, demise, alien, or otherwise dispose of the same, and also to do all other matters and things incidental or appertaining to a body politic.

Proviso.
Ibid. . 2.

Act No. 52 of 1912, sect. 3.

Provided that the University shall not, unless with the approval of the Governor, alienate, mortgage, charge, or demise any of its lands, except by way of lease for any term not exceeding thirty-one years from the making thereof, by which lease there shall be reserved and made payable during the whole of the term the best yearly rent that can reasonably be obtained without any fine or foregift.

7. The body politic and corporate of the University of Sydney shall consist of a Senate, which shall be constituted by—

four Fellows appointed by the Governor;

one Fellow elected by the members of the Legislative Council;

one Fellow elected by the members of the Legisla

tive Assembly;

five Fellows to be representative of the teaching staff of the University as follows:-The Chairman of the Professorial Board elected by the Board and four Fellows elected one by each of four Faculties;

ten Fellows elected by graduates of the University;

three Fellows elected by the aforesaid Fellows :The first of each such appointment and election shall be made within three months after the commencement of this Act; but if for any cause any such election is not held, or is void, the Governor may appoint to the office :

Provided that The Honorable Sir Henry Normand MacLaurin and His Honor Judge Backhouse shall each during his life be a Fellow in addition to the ten Fellows elected by graduates as aforesaid.

are

8. Subject to the above proviso, the members of the Senate shall, except as hereinafter mentioned, hold office for five years, or until their successors appointed or elected: Provided also that the Chairman of the Professorial Board and the four other Fellows elected one by each of four Faculties shall hold office for a period of two years. All retiring Fellows shall be eligible for reappointment or re-election.

9. Any vacancy occurring by death or resignation of a Fellow so appointed or elected shall be filled by a like appointment or election, as the case may be, of a Fellow, who shall hold office during the residue of the term of the Fellow whose office he fills.

9A. Elections of Fellows elected by the graduates shall be according to by-laws to be made by the Senate, or, if the Senate fails to make such by-laws before the expiration of two months from the commencement of this Act, shall be according to regulations which the Governor is hereby authorised to make: Provided that voting at such elections shall be by ballot of the graduates voting personally or by voting papers transmitted through the post as provided by such by-laws. The election of the Chairman of the Professorial Board

Chancellor.

14 Vic. No. 31, s. 4.

and the four other Fellows elected one by each of the four Faculties shall be according to by-laws to be made by the Senate.

Such by-laws may be made at any time after the passing of this Act.

9B. The appointment and election of the other Fellows shall be according to regulations to be made in that regard by the Governor.

9c. Any election of Fellows by the graduates of the University shall be by the following persons of the age of twenty-one years, namely

(a) Fellows;

(b) officials declared by this Act to have the same
rights and privileges within the University as
Masters and Doctors;

(c) graduates keeping their names in accordance
with any by-law in that behalf on the register
of the University, who have taken within the
University the degree of Master or Doctor;
(d) Bachelors and all other persons who obtain
any certificate which the Senate by by-law
declares to be equivalent to the degree of
Bachelor.

10. (1) The Senate shall elect out of their own body, by a majority of votes, a Chancellor of the University, 24 Vio. No. who shall hold office for such period as the Senate shall from time to time appoint.

13, s. 5.

Vacancies in

Chancellor.

(2) Whenever a vacancy occurs in the said office by office of death, resignation, or otherwise, the Senate shall, in like manner, elect out of their own body, a person to fill that office.

Vice-Chan

cellor.

11. (1) The Senate shall annually, on a day of which 14 Vic. No. due notice has been given, elect out of their own body a Vice-Chancellor of the University, who shall hold office for one year.

31, s. 6.

24 Vic. No. 13, s. 5.

Vacancies in -office of

Vice-Chan

cellor.

(2) Whenever a vacancy occurs in the said office by death, resignation, or otherwise before the expiration of the year of office, the Senate shall, as soon as conveniently may be, hold a meeting of which due notice

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