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REPORTS

Report of the Council on amendments of certain Statutes

The COUNCIL beg leave to report to the University as follows:

1. The Council have recently noted certain provisions of the Statutes which are in need of amendment. Proposals for the necessary amendments are set out in the following paragraphs.

2. Statute A, III, 7 lists the classes of persons who are entitled to membership of the Regent House. In its present form this section of the Statute dates from 1994, when the University approved proposals based on the recommendations of the Syndicate on the government of the University (the 'Wass Syndicate'). Class (e) is defined in the following terms:

(e) members of Faculties, and other members of the University approved by the Council or the General Board, provided that they hold an appointment in the University or in a College which has been approved by the University for this purpose;

Experience has shown that this wording lacks clarity. The proviso is intended to apply both to members of Faculties and to others, i.e. the requirement to hold an approved appointment applies to members of Faculties no less than to persons approved by the Council or the General Board; however, the wording has sometimes been interpreted in a different sense. For the avoidance of doubt a more precise form of words is proposed to replace the present subsection (e).

3. Statute G, II governs the financial relations between the University and the Colleges. When this Statute was revised in 1995, it was intended to introduce a provision allowing a College to carry forward any negative balance in its net assessable income and to set it against the income for either of the two years immediately following. The provision was described in those terms in the Council's Report (see Reporter, 1994-95, p. 450), but by inadvertence the revised Statute was so worded as to introduce a different provision, by which the negative balance was to be set against the College's contribution, not against its income. It is now proposed to correct this mistake, and at the same time to discontinue the use of the term 'set-off', which has been employed in the past to denote a sum allowed against a College's contribution.

4. A number of sections of Statute T are now spent, and the Council take this opportunity to propose their repeal.

5. The Council recommend:

That, subject to the approval of Her Majesty in Council, the Statutes of the University be amended as set out overleaf, and that these amendments be submitted under the Common Seal of the University to Her Majesty in Council for approval.

Statute A

Chapter III
THE REGENT HOUSE

Section 7.

By amending subsection (e) so as to read:

(e) any of the following, provided that they hold an appointment, either in the University or in a College, which has been approved by the University for this purpose:
(i) members of Faculties;
(ii) other members of the University who have been approved for this purpose by the Council or the General Board, or who belong to a class of persons which has been so approved;

Statute G

Chapter II
FINANCIAL RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGES

Section 7.

By amending the section so as to read:

7. If in any year the total of a College's deductible items under section 4 exceeds its gross assessable income, the College shall be allowed to carry forward the amount of such excess and to treat it as a deductible item in the year next following; provided that any part of the excess which is not so treated in the year next following may be further carried forward and treated as a deductible item in the year next but one following.

Section 9.

By deleting the words 'or as a set-off against the contribution of the College'.

Section 13.

By deleting on each occurrence the words ', as reduced by any sums allowed by way of set-off,'.

Sections 5-10.

By renumbering the sections as follows, and by amending cross-references accordingly:

Section 5 to be renumbered 6;
section 6 to be renumbered 10;
section 7 to be renumbered 5;
section 8 to be renumbered 7;
section 9 to be renumbered 8;
section 10 to be renumbered 9.

Statute T

By repealing the following sections:

Sections 34, 35, 36, 49.

9 November 1998

ALEC N. BROERS, Vice-Chancellor D. E. L. JOHNSTON ONORA O'NEILL
T. S. ADKINS ALIX LANGLEY SANDRA RABAN
MARTIN BOBROW JOHN A. LEAKE MARK RHINARD
A. L. R. FINDLAY HOLLY LINKLATER M. SCHOFIELD
DAVID HARRISON A. M. LONSDALE DAVID M. THOMPSON
B. A. HEPPLE C. T. MORLEY JOAN M. WHITEHEAD
BRIAN F. G. JOHNSON

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Cambridge University Reporter, 11 November 1998
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