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University.
STATUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY.-Contd.
Powers of the Senate, contd.
(b) to determine what examinations and courses of study in other Universities or places of learning shall be deemed equivalent to examinations and courses of study in the University of Hong Kong;
(c) to advise the Court and the Council on matters relating to education or research and all matters connected with the organization, administration, general improvement and development of the University;
(d) to propose persons to the Chancellor for admission to degrees: Provided that the Council shall have a like power in the case of honorary degrees only;
(e) to organize the faculties and to review, refer back, control, amend or disallow any act of the board of any faculty, and to give directions to the boards of the faculties; (f) to fix the time, mode and conditions of competition for, and to award, fellowships, scholarships and other educational endowments and prizes in accordance with the terms thereof; (g) to recommend any person for appointment to or removal from the post of professor, reader, lecturer or any other teaching post to which the Council has power to appoint; (h) to manage the University libraries; (i) to suspend
or expel any undergraduate or student: Provided that the Vice-Chancellor may, if he thinks it necessary, in any case peremptorily exercise a like power of suspension, pending the decision of the Senate in that case; () to approve halls and hostels for the residence of students; (k) to provide lectures and courses of study for persons who are
not members of the University;
(7) to furnish scientific advice for public purposes, and
(m) to do all such other acts and things as may be requisite to give effect to the powers conferred on the Senate by the Ordinance or the statutes, or to perform any duty which the Court or the Council may delegate to the Senate.
2.
(1) The Senate may from time to time make regulations with respect to any of the following matters or for any of the following purposes―
(a) the admission, registration, residence, conduct and discipline
of students;
(b) courses of study and examinations;
(c) academic dress:
(d) the payment of fees;
(e) the award of scholarships and other educational endowments,
and prizes;
(f) the use of the University libraries, laboratories, workshops
and other institutions;
(g) prescribing anything which is by the Ordinance or the
statutes to be prescribed by regulations;
(h) prescribing conditions under which persons may be exempted
from the provisions of any regulation;
(i) generally, all matters which by the Ordinance or the statutes
it is empowered to regulate.
(2) All such regulations shall, unless otherwise provided, come into operation on the day on which they are made.
(8) All such regulations shall be laid on the table of the Court at the first meeting thereof after the making of the regulations and, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, the Court, if it thinks fit, may forthwith revoke any such regulation.
University.
STATUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY.-Contd.
STATUTE 17.
The Standing Committee of the Senate.
1. For the purpose of giving advice and assistance to the Senate in connexion with the exercise and performance of its powers
and duties, there shall be a Standing Committee of the Senate.
2.
3.
The Standing Committee shall consist of—
the Vice-Chancellor, who shall be chairman;
the Dean of each faculty, and
one member of each faculty appointed from time to
time for one year by the Senate.
The Standing Committee shall—
(a) consider and make recommendations on all business to be
placed before the Senate;
(b) carry out the instructions of the Senate;
(c) subject to the directions of the Senate, determine the time, place and manner of holding University examinations and do all things necessary for the conduct of such examina- tions;
(d) receive the reports and give effect to the decisions of any
other committee of the Senate, and
(e) conduct the routine business of the Senate.
STATUTE 18.
The Faculties.
1. The board of each faculty shall consist of—
the Vice-Chancellor;
2.
the Dean of the faculty;
the professors, readers and lecturers in the subjects of the faculty whose services are exclusively at the disposal of the University;
such other lecturers as the Senate may propose and the
Council may determine, and
such other persons, not exceeding in number one-fourth of the total number of the members of the board, as the Senate may propose and the Council may determine.
The board of each faculty shall be responsible to the Senate for the teaching of the subjects assigned to that faculty and shall report thereon to the Senate from time to time.
STATUTE 19.
Powers of the Boards of the Faculties.
Subject to the provisions of the Ordinance and the statutes,
the board of each faculty shall have power-
(a) to advise the Senate on any questions relating to the work
of the faculty, and
(b) to do all such other acts and things as may be requisite
to perform any duty which the Senate may delegate to it.
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