New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HIGHER EDUCATION (AMALGAMATION) ACT 1989 - SECT 38

38 Students

(1) Each person who was, immediately before the relevant commencement, a student of a former institution enrolled in a course of study shall on that commencement (unless the student was a graduand in that course) become a student of the corresponding institution and be enrolled in a course of study that is substantially the same as the course of study in which the student was enrolled at the former institution.

(2) The corresponding institution shall (for such period as is necessary for the purposes of this section and, in any case, until the end of the academic year next following the relevant commencement) provide such courses of study as are necessary for the purposes of this section.

(3) If a student is enrolled in a course of study pursuant to this section, the corresponding institution shall, as far as it may practicably do so, give the student credit in that course for any subject or work completed by the student in the course of study from which the student was transferred.

(4) Students so enrolled are entitled, on satisfactory completion of their courses, to appropriate awards conferred by the corresponding institution but may, if they so desire, instead obtain awards conferred in the name of the former institution at which they were previously enrolled.

(5) For the purposes of subsection (4), the seal of a former institution may be affixed to any document pursuant to a resolution of the governing body of the corresponding institution.

(6) The seal of a former institution shall, on and from the relevant commencement, be kept in the custody of such person or body as the Minister may determine.