No 6369
Wednesday 10 December 2014
Vol cxlv No 13
pp. 285–297
The Council submits the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, unless they are withdrawn or a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 111), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 19 December 2014.
1. That the recommendations in paragraph 12 of the First-stage Report of the Council, dated 31 October 2014, on the North Range of buildings on the New Museums site (Reporter, 6363, 2014–15, p. 119) be approved.1
2. That, with effect from 1 January 2015, Regulation 3 of the regulations for Departments and Heads of Departments (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 609) be amended so as to read:2
3. The Head of each Department shall be a person appointed in accordance with Regulation 2, except in the following cases where the Heads of the several Departments shall be as follows:
The Director of Judge Business School.
The Director of the Institute of Criminology.
The Director of the Institute of Astronomy.
1See the Council’s Notice on p. 286.
2The General Board proposes, with the support of the Councils of the Schools and Faculty Boards concerned, the rescission of provisions enabling a Head of Department in certain Departments to be asked to resign with effect from the date on which a newly-elected holder of a specified Professorship takes office, thereby decoupling the holding of those Headships with the named Professorships. If approved, these changes would take effect from new appointments made on or after 1 January 2015.