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The Council, in their consultation exercise on governance, proposed an increase in the number of signatories required to call for a ballot on a Grace, or for an amendment to a Grace, or for a request for a Discussion. The figure proposed by the Council was fifty but many of the respondents to the exercise believed that either there was little evidence of abuse of these procedures and therefore there was no case for a change or that a figure of twenty or twenty-five would be more suitable.
In their Report on governance (Reporter, 2001-02, p. 945), the Council proposed (paragraph 29) to offer the Regent House a choice of between ten, twenty-five, and fifty signatures. This choice would be the subject of a separate Grace on which the Council would call a ballot. The Council are now submitting two Graces to this effect (Grace 5 relating to calls for a Discussion and Grace 6 relating to ballots on and amendments to Graces) to be determined by ballot under the Single Transferable Vote regulations at the same time as the ballot on Graces 1 to 4 of 20 November 2002.
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Cambridge University Reporter, 20 November 2002
Copyright © 2002 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars
of the University of Cambridge.