Notices by the General Board

Election of student members of Faculty Boards and other bodies

With effect from 1 October 2015

Following comments from several Faculties and Departments on the timing of elections for student representatives, the General Board have approved amendments to the regulations and rules governing the election of student members of Faculty Boards and other bodies so as to enable elections to be held earlier where registration permits, and to increase the maximum number of student members serving on a Faculty Board from three to four.

(a) By amending Regulations 2(a) and (b) of the regulations for the Constitution of the Faculty Boards (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 600) so as to read:

(a)the number of members in class (f) shall not be more than four, and

(b)if there are three or four, at least one shall be a graduate student and at least one shall be in statu pupillari.

(b) In the regulations for the Election of Student Members of Faculty Boards and Other Bodies (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 603):

(i)By amending Regulation 4 so as to define the earliest date for elections as 20 October of each year.

(ii)By replacing the first sentence of Regulation 8 with the following two sentences:

Not later than the eighteenth day after the beginning of the Full Michaelmas Term, the Registrary shall send to the returning officer for each body to which these regulations apply, save those listed in Schedule V, an electoral roll of all the persons who on the fourteenth day after the beginning of the Full Michaelmas Term were eligible, under the provisions of Regulation 1 of the General Regulations for the Constitution of the Faculty Boards and of these regulations, to vote and to stand as candidates in the election. For those bodies listed in Schedule V, the Registrary shall send to the returning officer, not later than 12 November, an electoral roll of all the persons who on 8 November were eligible, under the provisions of Regulation 1 of the General Regulations for the Constitution of the Faculty Boards and of these regulations, to vote and to stand as candidates in the election.

(iii)By adding new Regulation 12 so as to read:

12. If the number of eligible persons nominated does not exceed the number of vacancies, the person or persons nominated shall be deemed to be elected.

(iv)In Schedule I by increasing from 3 to 4 the number of members in class (f) on the following Faculty Boards: Business and Management; Clinical Medicine; Economics; Engineering; Human, Social, and Political Science; Law.

(v)By adding to Schedule IV two new electoral schemes so as to read:

Scheme L.

Four students, as follows: (i) two undergraduate students elected by and from among all undergraduate students in the Faculty; (ii) one graduate student elected by and from among the students in the Faculty pursuing a course of study appropriate to a specific degree or other qualification; and (iii) one graduate student elected by and from among all the graduate students in the Faculty who are not eligible to be members in category (ii).

Scheme M.

Four students, as follows: (i) one undergraduate student elected by and from among all undergraduates in the Faculty; (ii) one graduate student elected by and from among all the graduate students in the Faculty who are pursuing a course of study appropriate to a specific degree or other qualification; and (iii) two graduate students elected by and from among all the graduate students in the Faculty who are not eligible to be members in category (ii).

(vi) By adding a new schedule so as to read:

SCHEDULE V

Faculty Boards or other bodies with an electoral roll generated on or after 8 November

The Faculty Board of Biology

The Faculty Board of Earth Sciences and Geography

The Board of History and Philosophy of Science

The Faculty Board of Mathematics

The Faculty Board of Physics and Chemistry

(c) By amending Rule 7 of the Rules made by the General Board in accordance with Regulation 11 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 607), so as to change the exclusion date for graduate students from 31 October to 1 October.

(d) By amending Paragraph 4 of the Procedure for the allocation to electoral rolls for candidates of the Natural Sciences Tripos and Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 607), so as to remove reference to the last day of Full Michaelmas Term and replace it with ‘the last day on which the electoral roll is generated under Regulation 8 for the election of student members of Faculty Boards and other bodies.’