Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge
CHAPTER I
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THE CHANCELLOR AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY

POWER TO AFFIX THE SEALS OF THE UNIVERSITY

1. The Great Common Seal of the University shall not be affixed to any document unless authority has been given by Grace of the Regent House.

2. The Common Seal may be affixed to any document within the following classes of documents either in pursuance of an order of the Council or, if the Council have delegated authority to the Finance Committee in relation to any of the following classes, in pursuance of an order of the Finance Committee:

  1. (a)documents authorizing or enabling the University Bankers to receive dividends and interest payable on all stocks, shares, and securities standing in the corporate name of the University;
  2. (b)documents necessary for effecting the sale of real and personal property and of stocks, shares, and securities standing in the corporate name of the University;
  3. (c)documents necessary for effecting the transfer of real and personal property and of stocks, shares, and securities which may be purchased in the corporate name of the University;
  4. (d)documents necessary for effecting the transfer of real and personal property and of stocks, shares, and securities which may be transferred to the University in pursuance of any gift or bequest which may have been accepted by the University;
  5. (e)documents necessary for obtaining registration in the corporate name of the University of real and personal property and for obtaining inscription or registration in the corporate name of the University of bearer bonds or other stocks, shares, and securities belonging to the University;
  6. (f)assignments of assurance policies made under the regulations for the Superannuation Scheme;
  7. (g)forms of appointment of proxy or proxies to vote at meetings of stockholders or shareholders;
  8. (h)documents of consent to loans from the Church Commissioners for purposes relating to ecclesiastical benefices of which the University is patron;
  9. (i)leases, licences, and other documents relating to property;
  10. (j)documents necessary for transactions relating to Loan Fund II;
  11. (k)documents giving the consent of the University to alterations in or transactions affecting parsonage-houses, church-yards, or glebe-lands of benefices of which the University acts as patron;
  12. (l)documents relating to any contract which has been duly approved by the appropriate University body responsible under Statute or Ordinance;
  13. (m)deeds of presentation and deeds of nomination to vacant benefices.

3. The Vice-Chancellor (or a Pro-Vice-Chancellor designated by the Vice-Chancellor, under Statute A II 13) and the Registrary, or deputies appointed by them under Statute A II 13(c) to be present at the sealing, shall attest under their hands the affixing of the Common Seal. The Registrary shall keep a record of all documents to which the Common Seal has been affixed.