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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bill.

No. S. 55. The following Bill, which it is proposed to introduce into the Legislative Council shortly, is published for general information.

[No. 5-14.3.27.-1.)

C.S.O. 1176/27.

A BILL

INTITULED

Short title.

Addition of new section 13A to Ordinance No. 10 of 1911.

Addition of

new statute

12A to

Second

Schedule

of Ordinance

No. 10 of 1911.

An Ordinance to amend the University Ordi-

nance, 1911.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the University Amendment Ordinance, 1927.

2. The following section is added to the University Ordinance, 1911, immediately after section 13 thereof :- Honorary 13A.—(1) There shall be an Honorary Degrees Degrees Committee which shall consist of such persons

as shall be provided by statute.

Com- mittee.

(2) The function of the IIonorary Degrees Committee shall be to recommend to the Court names for honorary degrees.

(3) No honorary degree shall be awarded save by the Court and except on the recommendation of the Honorary Degrees Committee.

3. The following statute is added to the Second Schedule of the University Ordinance, 1911, immediately after Statute 12 thereof :-

STATUTE 12A,

1. The Honorary Degrees Committee shall consist of

the following persons :—

The Chancellor (ex-officio).

The Vice-Chancellor (ex-officio).

The Dean of each Faculty (ex-officio).

A member of the Council appointed by the

Council.

2. The Registrar shall ex-officio be secretary to the

Committee but shall not be a member of it.

3. The member appointed by the Council shall hold office for three years and shall be eligible for re-appointment.

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this bill is to amend the University Ordinance, 1911, so as to deal in it expressly with the machinery for the granting of honorary degrees. Hitherto committees appointed, first by the Senate and later by the Council, have performed the duty of recommending names to the Court for honorary degrees. It is thought better that the matter should be dealt with explicitly in the Ordinance.

12th February, 1927.

J. II. KEMP,

Attorney General.