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elected member die or resign from the Senate or cease to be a Reader, Senior Lecturer or Recognized Lecturer within the College by whose members he was elected or become a Director of University Studies a successor shall be duly elected who shall be a member of the Senate for the unexpired period of membership of his predecessor.

3. Subject to the Ordinance and Statutes, the Senate shall have the following

powers and duties—

(a) to promote research by members of the University;

(6) to regulate the admission of persons to approved courses of study and

their attendance at such courses;

(c) to direct and regulate the instruction and teaching in approved courier of study and to conduct the examinations leading to degrees, diplomas, certificates and other awards of the University;

(d) to make, after report from the Faculties concerned, all regulations for giving effect to the Statutes and decrees relating to approved courses of study and examinadoos:

(e) to appoint internal examiners after report from the Boards of Studies

concerned:

0 to recommend after report from the Boards of Studies concerned,

external examiners for appointment by the Council;

(g) to recommend the conferment of degrees (other than degrees honoris

causa) and to award diplomas, certificates and other distinctions;

(4) to fix, subject to any conditions made by the donors and accepted by the Council, the times, the mode and the conditions of competition for University scholarships, bursaries and prizes, and to award the

same:

ch to recommend to the Council, the institution, abolition or holding in abeyance of any professorship, readership or senior lectureship and the assignment of any such post to a College:

() to confer the title of "Recognized Lecturer" on the recommendation of a Board of Advisers constituted in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 3 of Statute 16;

(*) to recommend to the Council external experts to serve as members

of Boards of Advisers;

(0 to elect members of the Senate to be members of the Council as

provided in paragraph (A) of section 11 of the Ordinance:

(m) to report to the Council on all Statutes and decrees and proposed

changes thereof;

(n) to report to the Council on any academic matter;

(o) to discuss any matter relating to the University and to report its views

to the Council;

(p) to report to the Council on any matters referred to the Senate by the

Council;

(g) to consider estimates of expenditure prepared in respect of the central activities of the University, and to report thereon to the Council; (r) to formulate, modify, or revise schemes for the organization of Faculties and to assign to such Faculties their respective subjects; also to report to the Council on the expedience of establishing at any time other Faculties or as to the expediency of abolishing, combining or sub-dividing any Faculties.

(s) to establish, modify, or abolish any Board of Studies and to determine

its functions:

(0 to supervise the central library and laboratories;

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(4) to require any undergraduate or student on academic grounds to

terminate his studies at the University;

() to determİDO---

(i) the academic year, which shall be a period not exceeding twelve consecutive months, and

(i) the academic terms which shall be part of an academic year: (w) to exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as the

Council may authorize or require;

(x) to discipline students,

4. The Senate shall hold at least three meetings in each academic year and additionally at any time at the direction of the Chairman or on the written request of any fivc members of the Senate,

5. Seven days' notice in writing of any meeting of the Senate shall be sent by the Registrar to each person entitled to receive notice of the meeting with the agenda therefor and no business not on such agenda shall be transacted if the Chairman or any two members present object.

6. The Senate may make for the proper conduct of its business Standing Orders which it may amend or rescind by simple majority at any of its meetings provided that not less than seven days' notice has been given in writing by the Registrar to members of the Senate of the proposal so to amend or rescind,

7. The quorum at any meeting of the Senate shall be ten,

STATUTE 12.

The Convocation.

1. The Convocation of the University shall consist of all persons whose

names appear on the Convocation roll.

2. All persons who become graduales of the University shall be entitled to

have their names entered on the Convocation roll:

Provided that persons on whom a degree honoris causa has been conferred shall not solely by reason thereof,” be members of Convocation, but may be elected by Convocation to be members thereof.

3. Any person who obtains a diploma issued by the Post-Secondary Colleges Joint Diploma Board in the academic year of establishment of the University shall be entitled to have his name entered on the Convocation roll.

4. The Convocation shall from its own members cleel & Chairman and may elest_a_Vice-Chairman who shall respectively hold office for such periods as the Convocation may determine. No member shall be eligible for election as Chairman or Vice-Chairman unless he is normally resident in Hong Kong. Any retiring Chairman or Vice-Chairman shall be eligible for re-election.

5. In case of eny casual vacancy in the office of Chairman or Vice-Chairman, The Convocation shall elect one of its members to fill the vacancy and the person so elected shall hold office for the remainder of the term for which his predecessor was appointed.

6. The Registrar shall be the Secretary of the Convocation and shall keep

the roll thereof.

7. The Convocation shall from a date to be appointed by the Council elect three of its members to be members of the Council provided that no person who holds an appointment in the University or in any of the Colleges