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7. Before granting a Certificate the Board shall have power to require the publication of the Dissertation or of some portion of it in such manner as the Board shall think desirable.

8. It shall be the duty of the Assistant Registrar:

(1) To keep a record of the names of those Candidates who have been admitted as Students for the Degrees of Bachelor of Letters or of Science together with a description of the course of special study or research to which each was admitted, and, where a Certificate has been granted, a statement of the grounds on which it has been granted.

(2) To publish in the usual manner at the end of each Trinity Term the names of those persons to whom Certificates have been granted in the preceding academical year, together with a statement of the course of special study or research which each pursued.

§ 5. Of the Conditions of Supplicating for the Degrees of Bachelor of Letters and Bachelor of Science.

1. A Student who has been granted a Certificate by a Board of a Faculty may supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Letters or of Science, as the case may be, provided that he has kept eight Terms by residence within one mile and a half of Carfax as a matriculated member of the University.

2. Any Student who, after admission under § 2 of this Statute, has, for the purpose of carrying on his course of special study or research, resided as a matriculated member of the University within one mile and a half of Carfax, for a period of forty-two days, not necessarily consecutive, but falling within the same academical year, may apply to the Board for leave to reckon such period as one Term's residence towards that required for the Degree of Bachelor of Letters or of Science by the preceding clause. The Board shall have power to grant such leave provided that: (1) no day so reckoned which falls within any Term shall also be reckoned for the purpose of keeping that Term by residence; and (2) no Student who has kept by residence the Michaelmas, or the Hilary, or the Easter and Trinity Terms shall be allowed to reckon in this manner any day that falls within the eight weeks beginning on the first day of Full Term in Michaelmas, or Hilary, or Easter Term, as the case may be; and (3) no Student shall be allowed to reckon in this manner more than one such period in the same academical year; and (4) no

Student shall be allowed to reckon more than four Terms as kept by residence in the same academical year.

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3. Applications for leave to reckon any period as a Term kept by residence under the provisions of the preceding clause shall be made to the Board, through the Assistant Registrar, by the Head or a Tutor of the Student's College or Hall or by the Censor of Non-Collegiate Students. shall be the duty of the Assistant Registrar, whenever a Term's residence has been allowed in the aforesaid manner by a Board, to report the fact as soon as may be to the Society of which the Student is a member.

§ 6. Of the Readmission of Candidates.

If a Candidate who has failed to obtain a Certificate applies to the Board for permission to continue his course of special study or research and to offer himself again for examination, the Board shall have power to grant such permission. Applications for readmission shall be transmitted to the Assistant Registrar by the Head or a Tutor of the Candidate's College or Hall or by the Censor of Non-Collegiate Students. The Assistant Registrar shall notify the decision of the Board to the Candidate as soon as may be, and a Candidate whose application has been approved by the Board shall be readmitted so soon after receiving such notification as he shall have paid to the University Chest, through the Assistant Registrar, the statutable fee of £5. Thereupon the provisions of this Statute shall apply to him as if he were then for the first time admitted as a Student for the Degree of Bachelor of Letters or of Science, except that he may apply to the Board for a Certificate that the work done by him in his course of special study or research is of a high standard of merit, after a period, not being less than four months, which shall be fixed by the Board at the time of his admission, provided that he produces a certificate from the proper officer of his Society that his name has been continuously on the books of that Society since the date of his readmission.

§ 7. Of the Admission of Candidates for the Degrees of Doctor of Letters and Doctor of Science, and the Conditions of supplicating for these Degrees.

Members of the University may be admitted as Candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Letters or of Doctor of Science and may supplicate for these degrees subject to the following conditions:

1. A Bachelor of Letters may be admitted as a Candidate and may supplicate for the degree of Doctor of Letters, provided that he has had his name on the Books of some College or Hall or on the Register of Non-Collegiate Students for twenty-six Terms.

2. A Bachelor of Science may be admitted as a Candidate and may supplicate for the degree of Doctor of Science, provided that he has had his name on the Books of some College or Hall or on the Register of Non-Collegiate Students for twenty-six Terms.

3. A Master of Arts, who has incepted in this University, may be admitted as a Candidate and may supplicate for either of these degrees, provided that he has entered upon the thirty-ninth Term from his matriculation.

4. Any person who being a Master of Arts of the University of Cambridge or Dublin has been incorporated, and any person who being an Undergraduate or a Bachelor of Arts of the University of Cambridge or Dublin has been incorporated and has incepted in the faculty of Arts in this University, may be admitted as a Candidate and may supplicate for either of these degrees, provided that he has entered upon the thirty-ninth Term from his matriculation at Cambridge or Dublin.

5. Any person on whom the degree of Master of Arts has been conferred by Convocation by decree, other than a degree honoris causa, may be admitted as a Candidate and may supplicate for either of these degrees, provided that he has entered upon the twelfth Term from his admission to that degree.

6. When a Candidate under the provisions of the following clause applies for the approval of a Board of a Faculty the application for approval shall be made through the Assistant Registrar to the Chairman of the Board, and shall be accompanied by a fee of seven pounds and by a certificate signed by some officer of or some person deputed by the College or Hall or Body to which he belongs, and showing that his name is on the books of such College or Hall or Body.

7. Before supplicating, Candidates for either of these degrees must have submitted evidence of their fitness for the degree to the approval of the Board of the Faculty to which their subject belongs. Such evidence shall consist of published papers or books,* containing an original

* By regulation of the Boards at least one year must elapse between the publication of a piece of work and its submission to the Board as evidence in support of an application.

contribution to the advancement of learning or science; and, where possible, at least two copies of such books or papers shall be submitted. If the Board approves the evidence, a Certificate shall be given to the Candidate describing the evidence approved by the Board, and stating that it is of sufficient merit to entitle him to supplicate for the degree. This Certificate shall be signed by the Chairman and the Secretary, and shall be published in the usual manner: and it shall be the duty of the Registrar, when a Candidate's name is entered for the degree, to ascertain whether the Certificate has been duly granted. One copy of each of the papers and books named in the Certificate shall remain in the possession of the University for deposit in Bodley's Library, provided that no book or paper of which the Library already possesses a copy shall be so deposited except with the consent of the Candidate and of the Librarian, unless the copy submitted by the Candidate shall be of a different issue or shall contain alterations or additions. The Board shall have power to appoint Judges to consider the evidence submitted by any Candidate, and to report thereon to the Board; and shall further have power, in any case where it is of opinion that a Judge who has been so appointed, and who has made his report to the Board, should receive a remuneration for his services, to make a recommendation to that effect to the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors. The Board shall also have power to make and vary from time to time such regulations for carrying out the provisions of this clause as it may deem expedient, provided that all such regulations and any variations in them shall be submitted to the Hebdomadal Council for approval.

V.

DE TEMPORE ET EXERCITIIS REQUISITIS AD GRADUS IN JURE CIVILI CAPESSENDOS.

[For Date of Examination see Page 7.]

[Statt. Tit. VI. Sect. v.]

(i) Statute.

§ 1. Of the qualifications of Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Civil Law.

2. Any person who has been admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts may supplicate for the Degree of Bachelor of Civil Law after the completion of the twenty-sixth Term from his Matriculation, provided that he shall have passed the Examination hereinafter prescribed, and shall have had his name on the Books of some College or Hall or on the Register of Non-Collegiate Students for twenty-six Terms.

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2. Any person who has been, or is qualified to be, matriculated in the University, and is not under the age of twentyone years, and has obtained a Degree in Arts, or in Philosophy, or in Science, in some other University, may give notice to the Assistant Registrar of his desire to enter upon a course of advanced legal study as a Candidate for the Degree of Bachelor of Civil Law. Such notice may be given either during Term or in Vacation. It shall be the duty of the Assistant Registrar to see that the applicant has satisfied the conditions aforesaid, and, if he has satisfied these conditions, to lay his application before the Board of the Faculty of Law. The Board shall determine whether he is well qualified to pursue such a course of advanced legal study; and if it approves the application, the Assistant Registrar shall notify the fact to the applicant, who shall pay to the University Chest through the Assistant Registrar a fee of £5 within a fortnight of such notification, or, if at the time he is not yet a member of the University, then within a fortnight of his matriculation.

It shall be the duty of the Candidate to occupy himself, for seven Terms at the least, after giving such notice as aforesaid to the Assistant Registrar, and exclusive of the Term (if any) in which he has given such notice, in hearing lectures or otherwise in the study of Law under the supervision of the Board.

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