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Conduct of business: Amendments to Graces

9 April 2003

The Vice-Chancellor has withdrawn Grace 6 of 26 February 2003 (Reporter, p. 629; Notice of withdrawal, p. 682). This Grace put forward the amendment to Statute A, VIII, 7 necessary to implement the vote of the Regent House on Grace 6 of 20 November 2002 to require twenty-five members of the Regent House to call for amendments to Graces. Representations had been made to the Vice-Chancellor that it would be appropriate also concurrently to propose a correction to the Ordinance concerned so that the regulations for the conduct of business correctly reflect the statutory position.

The Council have agreed to resubmit Grace 6 in amended form. The new Grace includes the statutory amendment previously put forward and also sets out an appropriate form of Regulation 9 for the conduct of business (Graces and Congregations of the Regent House) which, with regard to the number of members of the Regent House required to call for amendments to Graces, refers to the number provided for in Statute A, VIII, 7 (see Grace 1, p. 824).

The amendment to Regulation 8 (ballots on Graces) approved by the Regent House does not depend on a statutory amendment and so already provides for twenty-five signatories.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 24 April 2003
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