AUSTRALIAN MARITIME COLLEGE
HONORARY DEGREE RULES
Pursuant to the Courses and Awards Statute the Council hereby makes the following Rules, approved on the
(a) repeals the “Honorary Degree Rules” made on the twentieth day of November 1997; and
(b) makes the following Rules
Given under the Seal of the Australian Maritime College this sixteenth day of September 1999
N.J.Otway
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Principal
Andrew Neeson
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Registrar
1 Citation
These Rules may be cited as the Honorary Degree Rules.
2 Interpretation
In these Rules, unless the contrary intention appears:
“Board” means Academic Board
“Council” means the AMC Council
3 Honorary Degrees
3.1 The Council may admit to the honorary degree of Doctor of the College a person certified by the Board as worthy to be admitted on the ground of distinguished creative achievement as a scholar in the maritime field, on the grounds of distinguished contribution or service to the AMC, or for exceptional service to the maritime industry.
3.2 A proposal for the admission of a person to an honorary degree under this rule must be addressed and delivered to the Registrar who must transmit each proposal to the Council for consideration and acceptance or refusal.
4 Proposals for Admission
4.1 A proposal for the admission of a person to an honorary degree:
(a) must be in writing signed by two proposers who must be members of the Board or the Council and who must express personal support for the proposal; and
(b) must give the reasons that make it appropriate that the person proposed should be admitted to an honorary degree of the AMC; and
(c) must contain supporting information.
5 Role of Board and Council
When the Council accepts a proposal for admission to an honorary degree, the Registrar must seek, in the case of all proposals based on scholarly merit, a certification by the Board that the person proposed is worthy to be so admitted. For situations where the Award is based on distinguished contribution or service to the AMC or the maritime industry, it will be sufficient for the Council to decide on the merits of the proposal.
6 Conferring of Degree
6.1 The Council may, by resolution, admit to an honorary degree a person in respect of whom the Council has received a proposal.
6.2 Where the Council admits a person to an honorary degree, it may authorise the Chairperson of Council or such other member of the Council as it determines, to confer the honorary degree on behalf of the AMC at such time and in such place as is convenient to both the AMC and the recipient.
6.3 Honorary degrees are not to be conferred in absentia.