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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; (j) 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;

(1) 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.

(3) 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.

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