Reporter 11/6/03: Graces submitted to the Regent House on 11 June 2003

Graces submitted to the Regent House on 11 June 2003

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 These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 113), will be deemed to have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, 20 June 2003.

1. That the regulations for the management of the University Health Services be amended as follows:¹

Regulation 1 (composition of the Management Committee).

By relettering classes (f)-(j) as classes (g)-(k), by amending cross-references according, and by adding a new class (f) as follows:

(f) the Director of Health and Safety ex officio;

Regulation 4 (composition of the Executive Committee for the Counselling Service).

(1) By relettering classes (f) and (g) as (g) and (h) respectively, amending cross-references accordingly, and by inserting a new class (f) so as to read:

(f) a Counsellor appointed from among the staff of the Counselling Service by the Committee of Management;

and by further amending new class (g) so as to read:

(g) two medical practitioners appointed by the Committee of Management;

(2) By inserting before the penultimate sentence the following sentence:

The member in class (f) shall be appointed in the Michaelmas Term to serve for three years from 1 January following his or her appointment, or until he or she leaves the service, whichever is sooner.

2. That the regulations for the Members' English Fund be amended so as to read:²

Members' English Fund

Endowments, 1904, p. 373

1. The Managers of the Members' English Fund shall be the Faculty Board of English. The Faculty Board may appoint a committee, not necessarily consisting wholly of members of the Board, to discharge any of their functions under these regulations.

2. The first charge on the income of the Fund shall be the provision of the Members' English Prize, which shall be awarded each year for the best dissertation submitted for the M.Phil. Degree in the Faculty of English.

3. Candidates for the Prize shall be Graduate Students working under the supervision of the Degree Committee for the Faculty of English, who were admitted as Graduate Students with effect from a date not earlier than 1 August next but one preceding the academical year in which they compete for the Prize.

4. The Managers shall award the Prize not later than the end of the Full Easter Term next following.

5. The value of the Prize shall be such sum as shall be determined by the Managers, within a range approved from time to time by the Council.

6. After provision has been made for the award of the Members' English Prize, any unexpended income accumulated in the Fund may be applied by the Managers for the purpose of furthering the study of English and cognate subjects by making grants in aid of research to Graduate Students working under the supervision of the Degree Committee for the Faculty of English.

¹ Statutes and Ordinances, p. 654. The Committee of Management for the University Health Services have proposed the inclusion of the Director of Health and Safety, ex officio, as a member of their Committee and the inclusion of additional members of the Executive Committee for the Counselling Service in order to broaden the professional expertise available on that Committee.

² Statutes and Ordinances, p. 819. The Members' English Prize is now awarded on the basis of M.Phil. dissertations and it has been found unnecessary to have a separate group of Adjudicators to consider entries for this Prize. The Managers of the Fund have also recommended some minor revisions of the regulations to clarify the procedure.

T. J. MEAD, Registrary

END OF THE OFFICIAL PART OF THE 'REPORTER'

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