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Graces submitted to the Regent House on 26 May 1999

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 These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 115) will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 4 June 1999.

1. (a) That the following regulations be amended, with effect from 1 October 1999, by replacing the sum £150 by the sum £175 in each case:1

The regulation for fines (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 192).
Regulation 8 for Motor Vehicles (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 193).
Regulation 4 of the rules of procedure for the Court of Discipline (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 199).
Regulation 13 for the Septemviri (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 203).
Regulation 4(f)(ii) for the Information Technology Syndicate (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 574).
Regulations 10 and 16 for the use of the University Library (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 612).

(b) That the regulations for the Summary Court (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 200) be amended with effect from the same date, as follows:

Regulations 9(a) and 14.

By replacing in each regulation the sum £150 by the sum £175 and by replacing the sum £225 by the sum £250.

2. That the regulations for the University Biomedical Support Services be amended as follows:2

By amending the sub-title so as to read 'Staff of the University Biomedical Support Services'.

Regulations 1, 3, and 5.

By amending the regulations so as to read:

1. There shall be the University offices of Director, Deputy Director, and Assistant Director of University Biomedical Support Services in the School of the Biological Sciences.

3. Appointments and reappointments to the offices of Deputy Director and Assistant Director of University Biomedical Support Services shall be made by the Appointments Committee for the Director of University Biomedical Support Services, with the Director as an additional member for this purpose.

5. Appointments and reappointments to the offices of Deputy Director and Assistant Director shall be subject to the same provisions as appointments and reappointments to the office of Director.

Regulation 7.

By inserting after the words 'the Deputy Director' the words 'and the Assistant Director'.

By amending sub-paragraph (a) so as to read:

(a) to ensure that the duties assigned to them as the named veterinary surgeons for the University under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 are satisfactorily discharged;

Regulation 8.

By replacing the words 'The Director and the Deputy Director' by the words 'The Director, the Deputy Director, and the Assistant Director'.

3. (a) That the Price Waterhouse Professorship of Financial Accounting be retitled the PricewaterhouseCoopers Professorship.

(b) That the Price Waterhouse Prize in Economics be retitled the PricewaterhouseCoopers Prize.3

4. That the regulations for Senior Technical Officers and Technical Officers be amended so as to read:4

Senior Technical Officers

1. There shall be such number of University offices of Senior Technical Officer in each Faculty, Department, or other institution as the competent authority concerned shall from time to time determine.

2. Special titles that have been given to certain holders of an office of Senior Technical Officer are specified in Schedule I appended to these regulations.

3. Appointments and reappointments to an office of Senior Technical Officer shall be made by an Appointments Committee for Senior Technical Officers consisting of the following persons:

(a) the Vice-Chancellor (or a duly appointed deputy) who shall be Chairman;
(b) the Head of the Department concerned or, in the case of an institution other than a Department, the officer (corresponding to the Head of a Department) who is responsible for the institution;
(c) one person appointed by the Council of the School of the Physical Sciences, one by the Council of the School of the Biological Sciences, and one by the Council of the School of Technology;
(d) two persons appointed by the Faculty Board or other authority concerned;

provided that

(i) when an appointment or reappointment is to be made to an office whose holder will have responsibility for matters concerning safety in the University, the member in class (b) shall be as specified in Schedule II to these regulations and the members in class (d) shall be two persons appointed by the Committee for Safety;
(ii) when an appointment or reappointment is to be made to an office whose holder will have responsibilities for the care of protected animals under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, the Committee shall include two additional members, appointed by the General Board, who shall be the holder of the designation certificate for the University and one of the persons appointed as the named veterinary surgeons for the University.

Members in classes (c) and (d) shall be appointed in the Michaelmas Term of each calendar year of which the number is even to serve for the two calendar years next ensuing.

4. Appointments and reappointments to an office of Senior Technical Officer shall be made for such periods not exceeding five years at a time as the Appointments Committee may determine; provided that

(a) when in a special case the competent authority so direct, the Committee shall make an appointment or reappointment for a shorter term than five years, as prescribed by the competent authority;
(b) the competent authority shall have power, on the recommendation of the Committee, to authorize the reappointment to the retiring age of a Senior Technical Officer who has held that office continuously for not less than five years.

5. The duties of a Senior Technical Officer shall be determined by the competent authority after consultation with the Faculty Board or other body concerned.

6. A Senior Technical Officer shall not undertake for remuneration during Full Term without the consent of the competent authority any teaching other than teaching given on behalf of the University or a College or Colleges or the delivery of occasional lectures. The amount of teaching given by a Senior Technical Officer on behalf of a College or Colleges shall not exceed six hours a week.

7. A Senior Technical Officer shall, under Statute C, III, 3(b), be a member of the Faculty, if any, in which his or her office is placed.

SCHEDULE I

Special Titles of Certain Holders of the Office of Senior Technical Officer

Prosector in Anatomy

SCHEDULE II

Appointments Committee for Senior Technical Officers responsible for safety matters (Regulation 3(d)(i))

For an office established in Member in class (b)
an institution under the supervision of the General Board the Head of the Department concerned
an institution under the supervision of the Council, other than the Unified Administrative Service the Head of the institution concerned
the Unified Administrative Service either the Registrary, if the officer appointed is to have responsibilities in a Council institution, or the Secretary General of the Faculties, if the officer appointed is to have responsibilities in a General Board institution

Technical Officers

1. There shall be such number of University offices of Technical Officer in each Faculty, Department, or other institution as the competent authority concerned shall from time to time determine.

2. Appointments and reappointments to an office of Technical Officer shall be made by an Appointments Committee constituted in accordance with Regulation 3 for Senior Technical Officers.

3. Appointments and reappointments shall be for periods not exceeding five years at a time as the Committee may determine.

4. The duties of a Technical Officer shall be determined by the Faculty Board or other authority concerned, subject to the approval of the competent authority.

5. A Technical Officer shall not engage in teaching other than teaching given on behalf of the University or a College or Colleges. The amount of teaching given by a Technical Officer on behalf of a College or Colleges shall not exceed six hours a week.

5. (A) That the regulations for the Adams Prize be rescinded and replaced by the following regulations:5

1. The Adams Prize shall be awarded each year for achievements in research in any branch of the mathematical sciences, pure or applied, including astronomy.

2. The Prize shall be awarded by a Board of five Adjudicators, comprising:

(a) two persons appointed by the Faculty Board of Mathematics;
(b) two persons appointed by the Council of St John's College;
(c) one person appointed by the Royal Society, who shall be a Fellow of the Society not resident in Cambridge.

Adjudicators shall be appointed in the Easter Term to serve for four years from 1 October following their appointment. The Faculty Board of Mathematics shall appoint one of the Adjudicators in class (a) to be Chairman of the Adjudicators. Each Adjudicator shall receive from the Adams Prize Fund, unless there are no candidates, such sum as shall be determined by the Faculty Board of Mathematics within a range approved from time to time by the Council.

The Secretary of the Faculty Board of Mathematics shall act as Secretary to the Adjudicators.

3. The Prize shall be open to any person who, on 1 January of the year in which the Prize is to be awarded,

(a) holds an appointment in the United Kingdom, either in a university or in some other institution;
and (b) is under forty years of age, provided that in exceptional circumstances the Adjudicators may relax this age limit.

Any question relating to eligibility shall be determined by the Adjudicators, whose decision shall be final.

4. Not later than the last day of the Lent Term each year the Adjudicators shall give notice of the general area of research in which the Prize for the following calendar year is to be offered. The Adjudicators shall advertise the Prize widely within the United Kingdom and shall invite applications. Any person qualified under Regulation 3 who wishes to be a candidate for the Prize shall send to the Secretary to the Adjudicators, not later than 31 October next following, six copies of an application comprising a curriculum vitae and a list of publications, together with six copies of the work or works, either published or unpublished, which he or she wishes the Adjudicators to take into account.

5. The Adjudicators shall have power to obtain opinions from referees on the works submitted by candidates, and to authorize payment to a referee of such fee as they may determine in each particular case within a range approved from time to time by the Council.

6. The Prize shall be awarded not later than the last day of the Lent Term next following the closing date for applications.

7. The value of the Prize in any year shall be the income of the Prize Fund in the previous financial year, after meeting any expenses of advertising the Prize and of selecting the winner. The Prize shall be paid in three equal portions as follows:

(a) one-third to the prize-winner on the announcement of the award;
(b) one-third to the institution to which the prize-winner is affiliated at the time when the award is announced, to meet the expenses of his or her research;
(c) one-third to the prize-winner on the acceptance for publication, by the editor of an internationally recognized journal, of a substantial original article (normally of at least twenty-five printed pages) of which the prize-winner is an author, surveying the general field of his or her research.

8. If in any year the Prize is not awarded the income for the year in question shall be either added to the capital of the Fund or accumulated for use as income in subsequent years, as the Faculty Board of Mathematics may determine.

9. These regulations may be amended from time to time by the University, subject to the consent of the Council of St John's College.

(B) That, notwithstanding the provisions of proposed Regulation 2 for the Prize,

(i) the Faculty Board of Mathematics and the Council of St John's College each be authorized now to appoint two Adjudicators, one to serve until 30 September 2002 and one until 30 September 2004;

(ii) the Royal Society be authorized now to appoint one Adjudicator to serve until 30 September 2004.

6. That the recommendations contained in paragraph 4 of the Second Report, dated 15 March 1999, of the Council on amendments of Statute G, II (Financial relations between the University and the Colleges: the Colleges Fund) (Reporter, p. 472) be approved.6

7. That the recommendation contained in paragraph 6 of the Report, dated 26 April 1999, of the Council on the Cycle for the nomination of Proctors (Reporter, p. 543) be approved.7

8. That the recommendations contained in paragraph 5 of the Second Report, dated 26 April 1999, of the Council on the regulations for the Local Examinations Syndicate (Reporter, p. 544) be approved.

9. That, on the nomination of Magdalene College, Frank Haydon King, M.A., Ph.D., of that College and of Churchill College, be appointed a Pro-Proctor for the academical year 1999-2000.

10. That, on the nomination of Downing College, Richard James Stibbs, M.A., of that College, be appointed a Pro-Proctor for the academical year 1999-2000.

11. That, on the nomination of the Vice-Chancellor and the Proctors designate, Brian Leslie Hebblethwaite, M.A., B.D., of Queens' College, and Arnold Samuel Browne, Ph.D., of Trinity College, be appointed additional Pro-Proctors for the academical year 1999-2000.

1 Increases are proposed in the maximum amounts prescribed for fines and in the maximum amount of compensation that may be ordered by the Summary Court. These amounts were last increased in 1991.

2 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 593. Recent changes in the requirements imposed by the Home Office have led to an increase in the duties to be undertaken by the named veterinary surgeon for the University. In view of this it is proposed to re-establish the office of Assistant Director of Biomedical Support Services, which was suppressed in 1997 and replaced by an unestablished appointment.

3 Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 663 and 800. The Price Waterhouse Professorship and the Price Waterhouse Prize are supported by annual benefactions which were instituted by Price Waterhouse in 1988 and 1978 respectively. Price Waterhouse have now merged with Coopers and Lybrand to form a new company under the name PricewaterhouseCoopers, and it is proposed to retitle the Professorship and the Prize accordingly.

4 Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 681 and 682. These amendments are proposed in order to make it possible to appoint, as a member of the Unified Administrative Service, a Senior Technical Officer or a Technical Officer who will have responsibility for safety matters in a General Board institution.

5 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 687. The Faculty Board of Mathematics have reviewed the arrangements for the award of the Adams Prize. It is proposed (a) to widen the eligibility for the Prize, which is at present restricted to those who have a close connection with Cambridge, and (b) to discontinue the present competition in which candidates are required to submit a specially composed essay, and to provide instead for candidates to be considered on the basis of their achievements in research. Simpler arrangements are also proposed for the appointment of Adjudicators. The Council of St John's College concur in these proposals.

6 See the Council's Notice, p. 631.

7 See the Council's Notice, p. 632.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 26 May 1999
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