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OBLIGATIONS OF COLLEGES
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Chapter I

THE OBLIGATIONS OF COLLEGES IN RESPECT OF FELLOWSHIPS

1. Every College shall maintain the number of Fellowships without dividend allotted to it in Schedule C for such Professors or other University officers as are specified in Schedule B. The Fellowships required to be maintained as aforesaid are hereinafter termed Professorial Fellowships, and the number of such Fellowships allotted to a College is hereinafter termed the quota. A person holding or appointed or elected to hold an office placed in Schedule B shall not be elected at a College to any Fellowship other than a Professorial Fellowship. An officer specified in Schedule B who is the Head of a College shall be deemed to be the holder of a Professorial Fellowship in that College.

2. The Council shall in the year 1966 and in every tenth year thereafter consider Schedule C and may in that year, or, if they think fit, in any intermediary year propose a revision thereof. The Council shall publish any proposed revision to the University and, save as hereinafter provided, the proposed revision shall become effective when thirty days of full term have elapsed after its publication. At any time within that period any College affected by the proposed revision may make representations to the Chancellor. Thereafter the Chancellor shall have power to make the proposed revision or any modification thereof approved by the Council or to make no revision.

3. The University may make alterations in Schedule B from time to time by Grace.

4. A College shall not have power to elect to a Professorial Fellowship a person holding, or appointed or elected to hold an office placed in Schedule B, unless at the time of the election to such a Fellowship

  1. either(i)it has among its Fellows a number competent to hold Professorial Fellowships less than its quota of such Fellowships;
  2. or(ii)at each College among its Fellows the number competent to hold Professorial Fellowships is not less than its quota of such Fellowships;
  3. or(iii)he or she has held the office for two years and throughout that time it has been placed in Schedule B:

provided that

  1. (a)this section shall not debar a College or other competent authority from appointing to the Headship of the College a person holding or appointed or elected to hold an office placed in Schedule B, nor shall it debar a College from electing to a Professorial Fellowship a person holding such an office who at the time of his or her appointment or election to the office (even if the office was not then placed in Schedule B) was or had previously been a Fellow of the College;
  2. (b)this section shall not debar a College from electing to a Professorial Fellowship a person holding, or appointed to hold, the office of Vice-Chancellor;
  3. (c)this section shall not debar the Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History from becoming a Professorial Fellow of Emmanuel College, or the Regius Professor of Greek from becoming a Professorial Fellow of Trinity College, or the Downing Professor of the Laws of England from becoming a Professorial Fellow of Downing College, or the Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Research from becoming a Professorial Fellow of Churchill College;
  4. (d)this section shall not debar a College from electing to a Professorial Fellowship, with effect from a date not later than a date in the academical year next but one following, a person holding, or appointed or elected to hold an office placed in Schedule B, if it appears to the University Registrary that on the day from which such election is to take effect the College would, unless the election were made, have among its Fellows a number of such persons less than its quota of Professorial Fellowships;
  5. (e)for the purposes of the conditions numbered (i) and (ii) in this section a person elected to a Professorial Fellowship with effect from a future date shall from the day on which such election is made be reckoned as if he or she were already a Fellow competent to hold a Professorial Fellowship;
  6. (f)in the application of this section to a College of which only men may be Fellows, Colleges of which only women may be Fellows shall be disregarded and vice versa;
  7. (g)in the application of this section to Colleges of which both men and women may be Fellows, Colleges of which only men may be Fellows shall be disregarded if the person to be elected is a woman and vice versa;
  8. (h)during the year in which a quota is first allotted to a College and during the five years next following that year, the College shall be deemed to have satisfied the condition numbered (ii) in this section when it has among its Fellows a number competent to hold Professorial Fellowships which is less by one than its quota of such Fellowships;
  9. (i)if among the Fellows of any College the total number1 of persons competent to hold Professorial Fellowships has for a continuous period of nine months been less than the quota of such Fellowships for that College, and if the College certifies to the Registrary that during such period it has been unable to elect to Professorial Fellowships a sufficient number of persons to satisfy the condition numbered (ii) in this section, the College may, if it so consents, be deemed for a period not exceeding one year (calculated from the date on which the College's certificate is received by the Registrary) to have satisfied that condition.

5. If among the Fellows of any College the actual number1 of persons competent to hold Professorial Fellowships is less than the quota of such Fellowships for that College, and if there are in the University five or more persons competent to hold Professorial Fellowships but not holding Fellowships at any College, that College shall take steps to ensure that the vacancy is filled not later than one year after its occurrence, provided that

  1. (a)in the application of this section to a College of which only men may be Fellows, five or more persons shall mean five or more men, and in the application of this section to a College of which only women may be Fellows, five or more persons shall mean five or more women;
  2. (b)if a College shall have offered a Professorial Fellowship to a competent person, and if that person shall have declined the offer, the College shall be entitled to reckon him or her, for the purposes of its obligations under this chapter, as not competent to hold a Professorial Fellowship.

6. A Fellowship with dividend shall not be tenable by an officer specified in Schedule B, provided that this section shall not debar such an officer from receiving from a College as dividend the whole or part of the remuneration due to him or her as Head of the College.

7. Any dispute between the University and a College regarding the obligations of the College under this chapter shall be referred to the Council, from which an appeal shall lie to the Chancellor.

8. If the office of Chancellor is vacant the functions assigned to the Chancellor by this chapter shall be exercised by the High Steward.

9. In the application of this Statute to a College which is able under its Statutes to elect men or women to Fellowships but which, if previously a College of which only men might be Fellows has never elected a woman (other than a bursar) to a Fellowship, or if previously a College of which only women might be Fellows has never elected a man (other than a bursar) to a Fellowship, that College shall be deemed to be a College of which only men may be Fellows or of which only women may be Fellows as the case may be; provided that in either case for the purpose of the first election of a Professorial Fellow of the opposite sex section 4 of this Statute shall apply as if the College were one of which both men and women may be Fellows.

10. A Professorship placed in Schedule B may be specified by Grace as a Professorship which, for the purpose of this Statute, shall also be placed in Schedule H. A Professorship placed in Schedule H shall be governed by the following special provisions notwithstanding anything contained in sections 4 and 5 of this Statute:

  1. (a)a College may elect a person or persons holding a Professorship so specified to a Professorial Fellowship although the College has at the time a number of Professorial Fellows not less than its quota of Professorial Fellowships;
  2. (b)a College which shall elect a person or persons holding a Professorship so specified to a Professorial Fellowship may include that Fellowship, or those Fellowships, among its Professorial Fellowships for the purpose of satisfying its obligations under section 1 of this Statute;
  3. (c)a College which has elected a person or persons holding a Professorship so specified to a Professorial Fellowship may exclude that Fellowship, or those Fellowships, from its Professorial Fellowships for the purpose of determining whether the College is entitled to make a further election.

11. (Repealed by Grace 6 of 13 December 2000 and by Order in Council dated 18 July 2001.)

Footnotes

  1. 1. Calculated in accordance with the provisions of Statute G, I, 4(d).a b

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