Sydney University Incorporation Act Amendment Act of 1861 No 10a (NSW)

No. XIII.

UM vjsusrj'v A ct

A m en d v ex t . An Act to amend tlie Sydney University Incor-

- poration Act. Apfil, 1861.]

rrcamble. A \ / H E llE A S it is expedient to amend the Sydney University

T V Incorporation Act fourteenth Victoria number thirty-one in

respect to the Constitution of the Senate and the Mode of Electing the Eelloivs thereof Be it therefore enacted hy the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty hy and with the advice and consent of the Legisla­ tive Council and Legislative Assembly of New South W ales in Parliam ent assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—

Hcpeal of ss. u & 7 1. The fifth and seventh sections of the Act fourteenth Victoria

of 14 Vic. No. ;J1.	num ber thirty-one are hereby repealed.
Oi'.i-tain Professors
to be cx officio Mem­	2. In addition to the number of sixteen Eellows of whom the Senate of the said University now consists there shall be not fewer than three nor more than six ex officio Members who shall be Professors of the said U niversity in such branches of learning as the Senate shall from time to time by any by-law in th a t behalf select.
bers of Senate.
Professors &e. to bo	3. Every Professor and other Public Teacher and Exam iner in College u itliin the said University and every Superior Officer of the said University declared to be such by any by-law duly passed shall during his tenure of such office in the University but no longer be a Member of the said University with the same rights and privileges as are enjoyed by persons holding any or either of the Degrees of M aster of A rts Doctor of Laws or Doctor of Medicine w ithin the said University.
Members with the
rights of full	the Schools of the said University every Principal of any Incorporated
Graduates.

How future vacan­	4.	Every Professor or other person so declared by this Act to be a
cies of Fellows to bo

filled. ]M ember of the said LTniversity and every person having taken the Degree of M aster of A rts Doctor of Laws or Doctor of Medicine and keeping his name in accordance with any by-law in th a t behalf on the Begister of the said University shall have the same privilege as the existing Eellows now have of attending and voting at the election of Eellows and every future vacancy by death resignation or otherwise among the Eellows for the time being shall be filled up by the election at a meeting duly convened for the purpose of such other fit and proper person as may be elected to fill such vacancy by the majority of the folloAving persons present at such meetings viz.—^Eellows of the Senate of the said U ni­ versity for the time being—Professors and other persons so as last aforesaid declared to be Members of the said L^niversity— Graduates keeping their names on the Begister of the University who shall have

taken

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taken within the said University any or either of the Degrees of M aster of Arts Doctor of Laws or Doctor of Medicine Provided th a t unless l)y death or resignation no such vacancy shall occur for any cause not previously specified hy some by-law of the University duly passed.

5. The Chief Officers of the University now called Provost and rrovost ami vito

Vico Provost respectively shall hereafter he and he styled Chancellor

and Vico Chancellor of the University Provided th a t the present ciiancciior. '

Provost and Vice Provost shall he the first Chancellor and Vice Chancellor respectively And that all the provisions of the said Act of Incorporation now applicable to the Provost and Vice Provost and to their respective offices shall apply to the Chancellor and Vice Chan­ cellor ar d their offices respectively.

6. Nothing herein shall affect the said recited Act or any other Not to affect Univor-

Act or any Letters Patent or other instrum ent or by-law of or cnTcUimnt.'*

relating to the said L^niversity otherwise than as is hy this A ct ex­

pressly imacted.

7. This Act sliall be styled and may be cited as the “ Sydney short titio.

University Incorporation Act Amendment Act of 1861.”