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 These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 107), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 27 October 2006.
1. That, notwithstanding Regulation 2 of the regulations for Financial Matters (period of service for members of the Finance Committee), in the election of members of the Finance Committee in class (b) by representatives for Colleges, to be held in Michaelmas Term 2006:1
| (i) | the first candidate elected shall serve for three years from 1 January 2007; |
| (ii) | the second candidate elected shall serve for two years from 1 January 2007; |
| (iii) | the third candidate elected shall serve for one year from 1 January 2007. |
In the event of an equality of votes credited to two or all of the candidates at any stage in the election, the returning officer shall determine by lot the order of election of those candidates.
2. That the recommendations in paragraph 6 of the Third Report of the Council, dated 29 May 2006, on the proposed East Forum building at West Cambridge (Reporter, 2005-06, p. 704) be approved.2
3. That the recommendations in paragraph 9 of the Report of the Council, dated 24 July 2006, on the refurbishment of the Pfizer Building to house the Cambridge Centre for Imaging and the Laboratory for Stem Cell Medicine (Reporter, 2005-06, p. 883) be approved.
4. That the recommendations in paragraph 7 of the First-stage Report of the Council, dated 24 July 2006, on the construction of a new building for the study of plant diversity and development (Reporter, 2005-06, p. 885) be approved.
5. That the recommendations in paragraph 9 of the Second-stage Report of the Council, dated 24 July 2006, on the construction of a new building for a Centre for the Physics of Medicine in the Department of Physics at West Cambridge (Reporter, 2005-06, p. 887) be approved.
6. That the recommendations in paragraph 5 of the Report of the General Board, dated 10 May 2006, on the establishment of a Winton Professorship of the Public Understanding of Risk (Reporter, 2005-06, p. 968) be approved.
7. That the recommendations in paragraph 3 of the Report of the General Board, dated 12 July 2006, on the re-establishment of the Professorship of Financial Policy (Reporter, 2005-06, p. 970) be approved.
1 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 914. The three members of the Finance Committee in class (b) are all due to retire in December this year. To provide in future for at least one member to retire annually the Council, on the recommendation of the Committee, propose that the election of the new members in this class which will take place this term should be for different periods of service.
2 See the Council's Notice, p. 55.