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No 6251

Wednesday 18 January 2012

Vol cxlii No 16

pp. 382–399

Notices by the General Board

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research: Notice

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 593)

With immediate effect

The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Human, Social, and Political Science and the Managing Committee of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, have approved amendments to the constitution and management of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research to take account of the recent establishment of the Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science and the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology. The regulations for the Institute and for the staff of the Institute and for the D. M. McDonald Trust Fund have been amended as set out below. A minor change to the regulations for Visiting Fellows has been made to remove a redundant reference to the Finance Committee.

Regulations 1 and 3.

By amending the regulations so as to read:

1. The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research shall be an institution within the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.

3. The Institute shall be under the general control of a Managing Committee, which shall consist of:

(a)the Disney Professor of Archaeology;

(b)the Director of the Institute, if not the Disney Professor;

(c)the George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science;

(d)the Deputy Director of the Institute;

(e)the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, or his or her nominee;

(f)one person appointed by the General Board;

(g)two persons appointed by the Faculty Board of Human, Social and Political Science, one of whom shall be a University officer in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology and the other a University officer in the Faculty of Classics;

(h)two persons appointed by the D. M. C. McDonald Foundation.

Members in classes (f) and (g) shall be appointed in the Michaelmas Term to serve for three years from 1 January following their appointment and shall be eligible for reappointment. The D. M. C. McDonald Foundation shall have power to assign the right of appointment of members in class (h) either to a separate trust or to some official body or to the holder of a particular office.

Staff of the Institute

Regulation 1.

By amending the regulation so as to read:

1. There shall be a University office of Director of the McDonald Institute, which shall normally be held concurrently with the Disney Professorship of Archaeology.

Visiting Fellowships

Regulations 5 and 6.

By amending the regulations so as to read:

5. The stipend, if any, of a Visiting Fellow shall be determined by the Managing Committee, subject to the approval of the General Board.

6. Subject to the approval of the General Board the Managing Committee may make grants to Visiting Fellows to meet travelling or other expenses incurred in connection with their Fellowships.

D. M. McDonald Trust Fund

Regulation 6.

By amending the membership in class (a) so as to read:

(a) one of the members of the Managing Committee in class (h);