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Graces submitted to the Regent House on 6 November 2002

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 These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 113), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 15 November 2002.

1. That payments be increased, with effect from 1 August 2002, and until further notice, as follows:1

(i) the stipends for all non-clinical University officers whose stipends are steps on the general scale of stipends, by the percentages shown in the Schedule attached to the Council's Notice;
(ii) the stipends for officers whose stipends are not steps on the general scale, by 3.5%, except the stipend of the Deputy High Steward;2
(iii) the payments for administrative responsibility specified in Regulation 1 of the regulations for payments additional to stipends (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 669), by 3.5%;
(iv) the discretionary payments made to University Lecturers and certain other officers, by 3.5%;
(v) the supplementary payments made to Professors and certain other officers, by 3.5%.

2. That the following regulations for the Professorship of Veterinary Science be approved.3

Professor of Veterinary Science. 1991. Clinical Veterinary Medicine

1. The sums accepted from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in accordance with Grace 3 of 16 February 1923 shall be separately invested and shall constitute a fund called the Professorship of Veterinary Science Fund.

2. If and whenever the income of the Fund shall exceed the amount required for the payment of this stipend, national insurance, pension contributions, and associated indirect costs of the Professor payable by the University, the excess of the income over that amount may be supplied in support of the work of the Professor in such manner as may be approved by the General Board on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Clinical Veterinary Medicine.

3. Any unexpended income in a financial year may in any subsequent year be expended in accordance with Regulation 2.

3. That the regulations for dress at graduation be amended by removing the footnote to Regulation 5.4

4. That the 'Full' Human Resources Strategy for the University as set out in the Appendix to the Joint Report of the Council and the General Board, dated 13 May and 24 April 2002, on a Human Resources Strategy for the University (Reporter, 2001-02, p. 773) be approved.5

5. That the recommendations in paragraph 5 of the Report of the General Board, dated 2 October 2002, on the Professorship of Clinical Gerontology (Reporter, 2002-03, p. 60) be approved.

6. That the recommendations in paragraph 7 of the Second Report of the General Board, dated 2 October 2002, on future arrangements for the Scott Polar Research Institute (Reporter, 2002-03, p. 61) be approved.

1 See the Council's Notice on University stipends (p. 263).

2 By ancient custom the Deputy High Steward receives a nominal stipend of £4 a year.

3 By Grace 2 of 22 May 1991 the Professorship of Veterinary Science was established to replace the Professorship of Animal Pathology. Funding for this latter Professorship was provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and, with the agreement of its successor Ministry, when the Professorship was suppressed in 1993 on the retirement of the holder, the funding was transferred to the new Professorship. However no regulations were drawn up to reflect this and the title of the Fund was unchanged. It is now proposed to retitle the Fund the Professorship of Veterinary Science Fund and to draw up regulations to govern this Fund.

4 Statutes and Ordinances, p. 188. The footnote to this regulation provides for a person being admitted to the degree of M.B. under Special Regulation 7 for the conferment of the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery to be allowed, if he or she is a B.A. but holds no degree higher than that of B.Chir., to wear the gown and hood of the B.A. Degree. The purpose of the footnote was to avoid the necessity of such a person buying the B.Chir. gown and hood for the Congregation. This dispensation is no longer necessary as it is now common practice to hire gowns and hoods for the appropriate degree for the Congregation.

5 See the Council's Notice on p. 262.


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Cambridge University Reporter 6 November 2002
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