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No 6524

Wednesday 31 October 2018

Vol cxlix No 6

pp. 86–104

Acta

Approval of Graces submitted to the Regent House on 17 October 2018

The Graces submitted to the Regent House on 17 October 2018 (Reporter, 6522, 2018–19, p. 65) were approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 26 October 2018.

Result of ballot on Grace 1 of 18 April 2018 (Membership of the Regent House for Directors of Research and Principal Research Associates)

26 October 2018

The Registrary gives notice that, as a result of the ballot held between 15 and 25 October 2018, the following Grace of the Regent House was approved:

That the recommendations in paragraph 3 of the Report of the Council, dated 7 February 2018, on membership of the Regent House for Directors of Research and Principal Research Associates (Reporter, 6494, 2017–18, p. 385) be approved.

The results of the voting on this Grace are as follows:

Number of valid votes:

721 (no invalid votes)

In favour of the Grace (placet)

621

Against the Grace (non placet)

100

No fly-sheets were received in relation to this ballot.

Result of ballot on Grace 1 of 27 June 2018 and on an amendment (Faculty membership criterion)

26 October 2018

The Registrary gives notice that, as a result of the ballot held between 15 and 25 October 2018, Grace 1 of 27 June 2018 in its amended form was approved.

The Grace in its amended form reads as follows:

That, with effect from the promulgation of the Roll of the Regent House on 6 November 2019, in the Ordinance on membership of the Regent House under Statute A III 11(e) (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 104), the text 'provided that no person shall qualify for membership in categories (i), (iii), or (iv) unless he or she is also a member of a Faculty, or holds an appointment listed in those categories in a Department or other University institution which is independent of a Faculty' be replaced by the following text

'provided that no person shall qualify for membership in category (iii), unless he or she has held an appointment listed in that category, or any other role qualifying that person for membership, for a total period of at least three years continuously prior to the date of promulgation of the Roll.'

And that the words 'Research Associate' be removed from category (i) and the words 'Research Associates and' be inserted at the start of category (iii).

The results of the voting on this Grace and the amendment, conducted under the Single Transferable Vote regulations (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 115), are as follows:

Number of valid votes: 783 (no invalid votes) (Quota: 392)

First count

Transfer of option 3 surplus

Second count

Result

1. In favour of the Grace in its original form

334

10

344

2. In favour of the Grace in its amended form

379

23

402

Approved option

3. Not in favour of the Grace
in either its original or amended form

70

-70

Non-transferable

37

37

Total

783

783

The fly-sheets received in relation to this ballot are reprinted on p. 95.

E. M. C. RAMPTON, Registrary

END OF THE OFFICIAL PART OF THE ‘REPORTER’