Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge
CHAPTER VIII
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SCHOOLS AND COUNCILS OF THE SCHOOLS

SCHOOLS AND COUNCILS OF THE SCHOOLS

Constitution of the Council of a School.

Except as provided in the regulations for any particular School, the Council of a School shall be constituted in accordance with the following provisions:

  1. (a)The Board of each of the Faculties comprised in the School shall appoint annually in the Michaelmas Term one person to serve for four years from 1 January.
  2. (b)The General Board shall appoint annually in the Michaelmas Term one person to serve for four years from 1 January.
  3. (c)At least one member of the Council of a School shall be a member of the General Board, and that Board shall have regard to this requirement when making appointments.
  4. (d)One undergraduate student member and one graduate student member of the Council of a School shall be elected by the undergraduate and graduate students respectively under the constituent Faculties, Syndicates, or other Boards or Committees of Management in each School. The student members of each Council shall be elected by ballot in each academical year. The electoral roll will be of all the persons who were eligible, under the provisions of Schedule IV of the regulations for the Election of Student Members of Faculty Boards and Other Bodies, to vote and to stand as candidates in the election for any of the School’s constituent Faculties, Syndicates, or other Boards or Committees of Management in that academical year. The date and procedure for the election shall be determined by the Council of the School concerned, provided that the election shall not be held later than the division of the Lent Term. Students elected shall serve from the date of their election until such date in the following year as shall be determined as the day for the election of new student members, or until such earlier date as they may cease to qualify for membership of the constituent institution. The returning officer shall be the Head of the School or a member of the Regent House appointed by the Council of the School. If at an election of a student member or members the total number of vacancies is not filled, the Council of the School may fix a date for the holding of a further election to fill such vacancies as are unfilled. The persons eligible to vote and to stand as candidates in such an election shall be those persons who were so eligible in the preceding election.