The Council submit the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 109), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 25 November 2005.
1. That the Professorship of Chemistry (1970) be retitled as the Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professorship of Chemistry and that a fund to be called the Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professorship of Chemistry Fund be established in the University to be governed by the following regulations.1
1. The sum of £2m received from Trinity College, trustees of the Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Fund which was created by Mrs Marjorie Gibson in memory of her husband, for research in Chemistry, shall form a fund called the Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professorship of Chemistry Fund.
2. The Fund shall be administered by three Managers appointed by the Faculty Board of Physics and Chemistry, who shall include the Head of the Department of Chemistry (or the Deputy Head of the Department of Chemistry if the Head of the Department is the Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor), who shall be the Chairman, the Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor of Chemistry, and one person appointed on the nomination of Trinity College.
3. If and whenever the income of the Fund shall exceed the amount required for the payment of the stipend, national insurance, pension contributions, and associated indirect costs of the Professor payable by the University, the excess of the income over that amount may be applied for the support of the work of the Professor in such manner as may be approved by the General Board on the recommendation of the Managers.
4. Any unexpended income in a financial year may in any subsequent year be expended in accordance with Regulation 3.
2. That the regulations for the KLegal Prize be rescinded.2
3. That a Clifford Chance Prize in EU Law be established in the University, to be governed by the following regulations:3
1. The sum made available annually by Clifford Chance LLP for the study of EU Law shall be applied in equal amounts as follows:
| (a) | to provide a prize called the Clifford Chance Prize in EU Law, which shall be awarded by the Examiners for Part IB or Part II of the Law Tripos for distinction in EU Law shown by performance in Paper 26 of the Law Tripos; and |
| (b) | towards the purchase of books for the Squire Law Library. |
2. If in any year the Prize is not awarded, the unexpended income for that year shall be applied for the purpose specified in paragraph 2(b) above.
4. That the Herchel Smith Professorship of Molecular Genetics to be held by Dr Fiona Watt from 1 September 2006 be assigned to the Department of Genetics.4
5. That the recommendations in paragraph 5 of the Report of the General Board, dated 12 October 2005, on the establishment of a Herchel Smith Professorship of Molecular Biology (Reporter, p. 67) be approved.
1 See the Vice-Chancellor's Notice, p. 134.
2 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 781. The donors of this Prize have notified the Faculty Board of Law that they will no longer continue to support it.
3 Clifford Chance, who sponsor several Prizes for the Law Tripos, have agreed to sponsor a Prize in EU Law and to support book purchasing by the Squire Law Library.
4 The Report establishing the Professorship recommended that it be assigned to a Department within the School of the Biological Sciences once the research interests of the person elected to the Professorship were known. (See Reporter, 2003-04, p. 560.)