Chapter II

DUTIES AND LEAVE OF ABSENCE

1. The stipend (if any) to be paid to a University officer shall be determined by Ordinance, or in such manner as may be provided by Statute or Ordinance.

2. Every University officer (other than the Chancellor, the High Steward, the Deputy High Steward, the Commissary, and any University officer who is exempted under any Statute from the provisions of this section) shall comply with such regulations concerning residence and accessibility as may be made by the University.

3. The University shall maintain a schedule, known as Schedule J, which shall include the University offices of Professor, Reader, University Senior Lecturer, and University Lecturer, and such other University offices as the University may from time to time determine.

4. It shall be the duty of all holders of University offices specified in Schedule J to devote themselves to the advancement of knowledge in their subject, to give instruction therein to students, to undertake from time to time such examining of students as may be required by the Board, Syndicate, or other body which is chiefly concerned with their duties, and to promote the interests of the University as a place of education, religion, learning, and research. The duty to examine students shall be restricted by Ordinance to the examining of candidates for such examinations for degrees and other qualifications of the University as the University may from time to time determine.

5. Every holder of a University office specified in Schedule J shall be entitled to be dispensed from discharging the duties of his or her office during one term for every six terms of service as hereinafter defined; provided always that

1. (a)the officer shall obtain the consent of the General Board, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld;
2. (b)in estimating the amount of leave of absence due under this section at any time account shall not be taken of any service done by the officer more than six years before;
3. (c)an officer shall not necessarily receive any stipend in respect of any period of absence under this section, but the General Board may fix the amount (if any) of the stipend payable in respect of such period.

For the purposes of this section the General Board shall have power to determine whether a term or part of a term is to be reckoned as a term of service in any case where the holder of an office specified in Schedule J has been excused compliance with any or all of the conditions of the office under Statute D, I, 6 or has been dispensed from discharging all or part of the duties of the office under section 6 below; and for the same purposes a term of service shall be defined as any term during which or during part of which a University officer has held such an office, except

1. (i)any term for which or for part of which the General Board has excused the officer from compliance with any or all of the conditions of his or her office under Statute D, I, 6 but has not allowed the term to be reckoned as a term of service;
2. (ii)any term for which or for part of which the General Board has dispensed the officer from discharging all or part of the duties of his or her office under section 6 below but has not allowed the term to be reckoned as a term of service;
3. (iii)any term for which the officer has been dispensed from discharging the duties of his or her office under this section.

6. The competent authority may for sufficient cause dispense a University officer from discharging all or part of the duties of his or her office, as follows:

1. (a)The competent authority may dispense an officer, on account of his or her illness, from discharging the duties of his or her office for a period not exceeding six months, without loss of stipend. The competent authority may extend such dispensation and if it does so shall fix the amount (if any) of the stipend payable to the officer.
2. (b)The competent authority may dispense an officer, for sufficient cause other than illness, from discharging the duties of his or her office for a period not exceeding five years. In exceptional circumstances the competent authority, with the concurrence of the votes of not less than two- thirds of the whole number of its members, may grant such a dispensation for a period longer than five years, or may extend beyond five years a dispensation already granted, provided always that such a dispensation or extension shall not be valid without the concurrence of the Board, Syndicate, or other body chiefly concerned with the duties of the officer. No stipend shall be payable to the officer during any such dispensation (whether or not the period of dispensation exceeds five years) unless at the time of giving it or at the time or times of extending it the competent authority, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, including the nature of the sufficient cause and the question whether the officer is receiving or will receive payment from some source other than the University during the period of the dispensation, shall determine that the whole or part of the normal stipend is to be payable.
3. (c)The competent authority may dispense an officer, for sufficient cause other than illness, from discharging part of the duties of his or her office for a period not exceeding five years in the first instance, and may extend beyond five years a dispensation already granted, provided always that such a dispensation or extension shall not be valid without the concurrence of the Board, Syndicate, or other body chiefly concerned with the duties of the officer. A reduced stipend, as determined by the competent authority, shall be payable during such a dispensation.

7. The competent authority shall have power to determine whether any period, or part thereof, of an officer's dispensation or partial dispensation from duty under either of the foregoing sections 5 and 6 shall be omitted in reckoning the limit of tenure fixed at the time of the officer's appointment or reappointment to his or her office.

8. The competent authority may appoint a deputy to act for a University officer, upon such terms of remuneration as it thinks fit,

1. (a)during any period of the officer's absence from duty under section 5 or section 6 above, or during any term when in accordance with Ordinances the officer is not required to reside;
2. (b)during any vacancy in the office;
3. (c)in any emergency.

A deputy appointed under this section shall exercise the powers and shall perform the duties of the officer for whom he or she deputizes and shall have the right to attend and vote in that officer's absence at meetings of any body of which the officer is a member ex officio.

9. The University shall have power, or may delegate the power, to preclude a University officer from undertaking any work outside the scope of his or her office or to limit the amount of such work.

10. Subject to the provisions of Statute U, a University officer shall be entitled, unless the tenure of his or her office is limited in accordance with the provisions of any other Statute or Ordinance or by Grace, to hold office until the retiring age so long as he or she satisfactorily performs the duties of the office.

11. No University office shall be tenable concurrently with any other University office except in cases in which it may be determined otherwise

1. (a)by the University, if it is proposed that a University officer should hold more than one of the offices specified in Schedule J, or
2. (b)by the competent authority or authorities, if none or only one of the offices to be held is specified in Schedule J.

12. Every University officer shall send to the secretary of the competent authority and of the Board, Syndicate, or other body which is chiefly concerned with the officer's duties, such returns as the competent authority and the other body may respectively direct.

13. A University officer who is a member of the Faculty of Divinity and who is in Priest's Orders in the Church of England may hold a residentiary Canonry of Ely Cathedral. Not more than one University officer shall hold such a Canonry at any one time. The income, if any, of the Canonry held by such an officer, but not the annual value of the official residence of the Canonry, shall be reckoned as forming part of the stipend attached to such a person's University office. The University in making or amending regulations for the residence of University officers shall have regard to the obligations of such an officer to reside at Ely and to carry out other duties as Canon.