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11. The Council may recommend the award without requiring attendance or examination of a degree of Master or Doctor honoris causa upon any person who has rendered distinguished service in the advancement of any branch of learning or who has otherwise rendered himself worthy of such a degree;
Provided that the holder of a degree which has been conferred honoris causar shall not, by the fact that he has been admitted thereto, be entitled to practise any profession.
12. The Council shall not recommend the award of any degree of Master or Doctor honoris causa except after consideration of recommenda- tions submitted by an Honorary Degrees Committee consisting of— (a) the Chancellor;
(5) the Vice-Chancellor;
(c) the Heads of the Colleges;
(a) the Chairman of the Council;
(e) two members of the Council nominated by the Council; and
[) members of the Senate, equal in number to the number of the
Colleges, elected by the Scoate.
13. The University may award diplomas and certificates—
(a) to students who-
(i) have aliended an approved course of study:
(i) have passed the appropriate examination or examinations;
and
(i) have complied in all other respects with the requirements
prescribed therefor; and
(6) to persons other than those provided for in sub-paragraph (0) above who are deemed by the Senate to possess the qualification appropriate for the award of such diplomas and certificates provided that such persons-
(1) have pursued a course of study therefor at one or more educational institutions in Hong Kong recognized for this purpose by the Senate; and
(ii) have passed the appropriate examination or casminations of
the University.
14. Subject to the right of appeal from the decision of the Senate to the Council and from the decision of the Council to the Chancellor, the Senate may deprive any person who has been convicted of an arrestable offence or who in their opinion has been guilty of dis- honourable or scandalous conduct of any degree, diploma, sertificate or other award of the University.
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EXAMINATIONS
Every examination or other test of the University qualifying in any subject of study for a degree or diploma or qualifying for a higher degree of the Unversity shall be conducted by a board of examiners which shall consist of
(a) one or more internal examiners who shall be teachers in the
subject of the examination; and
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(b) one or more external examiners who shall not be members of the academic staff of the University and who shall not have laken part in the teaching of the candidates.
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CITATION
The Statutes may be cited as the Statutes of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO TRANSFER OF PROPERTY AND STAFF OF COLLEGES TO UNIVERSITY
PART 1
TRANSFER Or College PROPERTY AND STAFF
1. All immovable property within the precincts of the University and vested in any of the Colleges or its Board of Governors or Board of Trustees as the case may be immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance, is hereby transferred to and without further assurance vested in the same interest fo the University; and the agreements made between the University and Chung Chi College dated 3rd July 1970, the University and the Board of Governors of New Asia College dated 29th December 1970 and the University and the Board of Trustees of The United College of Hong Kong dated 21st January 1971 are hereby surrendered to the University,
2. The Registrar General shall preparo such agreements as he considers uccessary to effect a sub-letting by the University to the respective Colleges of the buildings specified in Part II of this Schedule and the land on which such buildings stand, together with such adjoining land, if any, as the Registrar General or a public officer appointed by him considers essential to the use and enjoyment of the building. containing such terms as the Registrar General thinks fit, which_agree- ments shall be executed by the University as landlord and the Boards of Trustees of each College as tenants when so required by the Governor.
3.
All movable property, assets and liabilities of the Colleges, other than movable property held on trust by or for the Colleges, are hereby transferred to and vested without further assurance in the University, and the University shall have all the powers necessary to take posser- sion of recover and deal with such movable property and assets and discharge such liabilities.
4. Every agreement, whether in writing or not, (other than the agree- ments surrendered under paragraph 1) to which any College, or any Board of Governors or Board of Trustees of any College, was a party, and whether or not of such a nature that the rights of liabilities thercunder could be assigned shall have effect as if—
(e) the University had been a party to such agreement; and
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