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University.
STATUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY.-Contd.
Powers of the Council.-Contd.
(b) to invest the moneys of the University, including any unapplied income, in such stocks, funds, fully paid-up shares or securities, mortgages, debentures or debenture stock as the Council shall think fit, whether such invest- ments be authorized by the general law for the invest- ment of trust moneys or not and whether they be within the Colony or not, and to invest such moneys in the pur- chase of leasehold property in the Colony, and to vary any investments by sale and reinvestment or otherwise; (c) to purchase, grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender and yield up, exchange, partition, mortgage, demise, reassign, transfer and accept leases of real and personal property on behalf of the University;
(d) to provide the buildings, premises, furniture, apparatus and other means needed for carrying on the work of the University, to allocate such buildings, premises, furniture, apparatus and means to the various faculties and to alter such allocation at any time;
(e) to borrow money on behalf of the University and for that purpose, with the approval of the Court, to mortgage all or any part of the property of the University, whether real or personal, or give such other security, whether upon such real or personal properly or otherwise, as it thinks fit:
Provided that the moneys borrowed and owing by the University shall not at any time exceed in the whole the one hundred thousand dollars except with the sanction of a resolution passed at a meeting of the Council and confirmed by the vote of three-fourths of the members present and voting at a subsequent meeting of the Council specially convened for the purpose and held not less than seven days after the former meeting;
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(f) to enter into, vary, carry out and cancel contracts on behalf
of the University;
(g) to establish a University printing press and publish books
and other matter on behalf of the University;
(E) subject to the approval of the Court, to select a seal, arms
and mace for the University;
(i) to review, refer back and report to the Court on any act,
decision or recommendation of the Senate;
(1) to give directions to the Senate in any financial matter or any matter affecting the property of the University; (A) to review the instruction and teaching of the University; (7) to co-operate with other Universities and authorities for the regulation and conduct of examinations, for the examination and inspection of schools and other academic institutions, for the extension of University teaching and for other purposes;
(m) to entertain and adjudicate upon complaints from, and to redress grievances of, members of the University and persons employed therein;
(n) to draft statutes;
(o) to prescribe fees;
(p) to prescribe the duties of all officers whom it may appoint and to fix their remuneration and the terms and conditions of their appointments;
(g) to appoint committees within or without the Colony to select candidates for any office to which it may appoint; (r) to do all such other acts and things as may be requisite to perform any duty which the Court may delegate to the Council or to give effect to the powers conferred on the Council by the Ordinance or the statutes.
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2.
University.
STATUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY.-Contd.
STATUTE 13,
The Finance Committee.
The Finance Committee shall consist of— the Treasurer of the University, who shall be chairman; the Vice-Chancellor;
the Financial Secretary;
the Chief Manager of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, or the person for the time being in charge of the business of the said corporation in Hong Kong; the member of the Council nominated by The Hong Kong
General Chamber of Commerce, and
a member elected annually by the foregoing members of the committee from the teaching staff of the Univer- sity.
The Registrar shall be the secretary but not a member of the Finance Committee.
3. Three members of the Finance Committee shall form a quorum.
1.
STATUTE 14,
Disciplinary Committees.
All matters relating to charges of inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct against any officer of the University whom the Court or the Council has power to appoint shall stand referred to a disciplinary committee of the Court or of the Council, as the case may be, and the committee shall have all the powers of the Court or the Council in relation to such charges.
2.
The disciplinary committee of the Council shall consist of three persons appointed by the Chancellor, namely a senior member of the teaching staff of the University, a member of the Council who is not a member of that staff, and one other person.
STATUTE 15. The Senate.
1. The Senate shall consist of-
2.
the Vice-Chancellor, who shall be chairman; the Director of Education, and
the professors and readers of the University.
The Senate shall meet once in each term of every academic
year, and at such other times as may be necessary.
3.
1.
Seven members of the Senate shall form a quorum.
STATUTE 16.
Powers of the Senate.
Subject to the provisions of the Ordinance and the statutes,
the Senate shall have power-
(a) to direct and regulate generally the instruction and education
in and the examinations held by the University;
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