AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ACT.

Title.

Preamble.

Short Title.

Establishment of College.

Council.

AN ACT to promote the Advancement of Learning and to extend the Benefits connected with University Education to the Provincial District of Auckland.

[13th September, 1882.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to make provision for the advancement of learning, by the extension of the benefits connected with University Education to the Provincial District of Auckland :

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1. The Short Title of this Act is "The Auckland University College Act, 1882."

2. There shall be established within the City of Auckland, or within five miles thereof, a College, to be connected with the University of New Zealand.

Constitution of 3. A Governing Body composing as hereinafter mentioned shall be and is hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of "The Auckland University College Council," by which name such body corporate shall have perpetual succession and a common seal.

Of what College consists.

4. The Corporation shall consist of the members of the Council of the College, the members of its Professorial Board, the graduates of the New Zealand University on the books of the College, and the matriculated students.

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keep their names

books.

5. It shall be lawful for graduates of the New Graduates may Zealand University, whether admitted by examina- on College tion or ad eundem degree, who may not have been educated at the said College but who reside within the Auckland Provincial District, to put and keep their names on the books of the College, upon payment of such fees as may be fixed by the Council.

Council

6. The Council shall consist of eleven members, one Appointment of of whom shall be the Mayor for the time being of the City of Auckland, another shall be the Chairman for the time being of the Education Board of the District of Auckland, and of the remaining nine members (divided into three equal groups) three shall be elected by members of the General Assembly resident in the Provincial District of Auckland, three others shall be appointed by the Governor in Council, and the remaining three shall be elected by the graduates of the University on the books of the College.

Members.

The first election of members of the Council by Election of members of the General Assembly shall be held in such manner as the Governor in Council shall direct; and subsequent elections by members of the General Assembly shall be conducted by the Council, in such manner as the Council thinks fit.

Until there are thirty graduates the Governor in Council shall appoint the graduates' members.

Provided always that no professors of the College shall be eligible to hold office as members of the Council.

7. The Minister of Education for the time being Visitor. shall be the Visitor of the said College, and shall have full power and authority to do all those things which pertain to Visitors as often as to him shall seem meet.

8. The ordinary term of office of members of the Term of office Council shall be three years,

and

by lot.

retirement

Retirement by seniority.

Casual

vacancies how filled.

Governor to make

regulations for conduct of elections.

Conduct of elections.

Election of

Chairman of
College Council.

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On every anniversary day of the opening of the College one member of each group shall retire from office.

The members to retire in the first and second years shall be decided by lot, but at the end of the second year only the two members of each group longest in office shall cast lots. In every subsequent year the member in each group longest in office shall retire.

Every retiring member shall be eligible for reappointment or re-election.

9. A casual vacancy occurring in any group of members shall be filled up by appointment or election, as the case may be; and the member so appointed or elected shall remain in office as long as the vacating member would have retained the same if no vacancy had occurred.

10. As soon as there are thirty graduates the Governor in Council shall make regulations for the conduct of the election of graduates' members, and may from time to time thereafter make, alter, or abolish regulations as he may think fit for the election of such members.

11. The Council shall conduct the election by graduates of persons to be members of the Council, and shall fix the time of election within thirty days of the occasion of an election arising, and shall receive votes from absent graduates by means of voting-papers.

The Governor in Council shall, in all cases where it devolves upon him to fill up vacancies in the Council, make the appointment within thirty days of the vacancies being reported to him by the Chairman of the Board, whose duty it shall be to report every vacancy forthwith.

12. The Council shall elect out of its own body a Chairman, who shall hold office for such period, not

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exceeding the term of his membership of the Council, as the Council shall have previously determined.

13. The Council may adjourn from time to time, Council may and may from time to time make, alter, and revoke adjourn, etc.

rules for the conduct of their business.

14. The quorum of the Council shall be five.

15. The Council shall meet at least once in every calendar month, at such time and place as shall be determined by the Council.

Quorum fixed.

The Governor in Council to determine the time First meeting of and place of the first meeting.

Council.

Special meetings may be called at any time by the Special Chairman, or by any two members of the Council, meetings. twenty-four hours' notice to hold such special meeting being given to every member of the Council.

16. Any member who shall fail to attend for a Forfeiture of period of three consecutive months, without leave of seat. absence from the Council, shall cease to be a member

of such Council, and his seat shall be filled up in the manner provided for filling up vacancies.

17. All questions which shall come before the Proceedings of Council shall be decided by the majority of members Council. present.

At any such meeting the Chairman of the Council shall preside, and shall have a vote, and in case of an equality of votes, a second or casting vote.

In the absence of the Chairman an acting Chairman shall be chosen by the members present, who shall also have a second or casting vote.

The Council may continue to act notwithstanding there is a vacancy in their body.

Minutes of

proceedings and

kept.

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18. The said Council shall cause exact minutes of accounts to be all their proceedings to be kept, and also full and accurate accounts of all their receipts, disbursements, liabilities, and engagements, and shall in the month of January in every year cause the same to be audited by such person as the Governor in Council may appoint.

Council to

appoint and remove professors, etc.

Custody of seal.

Professorial
Board.

Copies of such accounts shall be forwarded to the Minister of Education to be laid before the General Assembly at its next session, together with the annual report.

19. The Council shall have full power to appoint and remove all professors, lecturers, examiners, officers, and servants of the college, and generally manage the business thereof.

20. The common seal of the College shall be entrusted to the Chairman for the time being, and shall not be affixed to any document except by order of the Council.

21. There shall be a Professorial Board of the College, consisting of all the professors of the College and of such lecturers (if any) not exceeding two, as the Council of the College shall appoint to be members of the Board.

The Council shall convene, as soon as it thinks fit, the first meeting of the Professorial Board. The Board to have power to make regulations as to the time and place of all its meetings after the first, and may from time to time make, alter, and revoke regulations for the conduct of the business.

The Professorial Board shall elect one of themselves to be Chairman of the Board, to hold office for one year.

The Chairman to have an original as well as a casting vote, and to take minutes of the proceedings of the Board.