8 Association of Commonwealth Universities
Convening of meetings
(4) The Chairman or the Vice-Chairman may at any time and the Secretary upon the request of two members of the Council shall convene a meeting of the Council.
(5) Subject to these Statutes the Council may from time to time meet for the dispatch of business and adjourn and otherwise regulate its meetings as it shall think fit.
Validity notwithstanding defect of procedure
(6) All acts done by any meeting of the Council or by any person acting as a member of the Council shall notwithstand- ing that it shall be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of the Council or any member thereof or of any person acting as deputy or that they or any of them is disqualified be as valid as if in all respects the Council had been duly constituted.
The Seal
9. The Council shall provide for the safe custody of the Seal, and the Seal shall not be used except with the prior authority of the Council or of a Sealing Committee thereof, and in the presence of two members of the Council or one member thereof and the Secretary who shall sign every instrument to which the seal is affixed. The Sealing Committee shall report all authorizations to the Council.
Bye-Laws
10. The Council may from time to time make, vary and revoke Bye-Laws for the regulation of the business of the Association and of its officers and servants provided that no Bye-Laws shall be made under these provisions which would in effect amend or alter these Statutes and all Bye-Laws shall take effect forthwith upon issue by the Council and shall continue so in effect until a resolution of a General Meeting has been passed to the contrary.
Editorial note.
The signatories to the Petition for a Charter (see p. 2) were: Mr. K. J. Maidment, Vice-Chancellor of University of Auckland, and Chairman of A.U.B.C.; the Earl of Scarbrough, Chancellor of University of Durham, and Chairman of Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom; Sir Douglas Logan, Principal of University of London, and Vice-Chairman of A.U.B.C.; Mr. A. L. P. Norrington, President of Trinity College, Oxford, and former Vice-Chancellor of University of Oxford; Sir David Hughes Parry, President of University College of Wales, and Chairman of Court of University of London; Sir Lindsay Ride, Vice- Chancellor of University of Hong Kong; Mr D. C. Pavate, Vice-Chancellor of Karnatak University; Dr. J. P. Baxter, Vice- Chancellor of University of New South Wales, and Chairman of Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee; Sir Malcolm Knox, Principal of University of St. Andrews; Sir Keith Murray, Chairman of (U.K.) University Grants Committee; Dr. J. W. Cook, Vice-Chancellor of University of Exeter; Professor W. Mansfield Cooper, Vice-Chancellor of University of Manchester, and Chairman of Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom; Sir John Cockcroft, Master of Churchill College, Cambridge and Chancellor of Australian National University; Sir Ivor Jennings, Vice-Chancellor of University of Cambridge, and Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge; Dr. M. Grant, President and Vice- Chancellor of Queen's University of Belfast; Sir Hector Hetherington, former Principal of University of Glasgow; Dr. O. A. Ajose, Vice-Chancellor of University of Ife; Dr. G. Edward Hall, President of University of Western Ontario.
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