Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Melbourne University Act 1958 - SECT 3

Definitions

3. Definitions



(1) In this Act unless inconsistent with the context or subject-matter-



casual vacancy means a vacancy however occurring in the office of any member
of the council or of any member of the committee of convocation otherwise than
by the retirement of such member on the expiration of his term of office;

council means council as constituted under this Act;

diplomate means a person to whom a diploma of the University has been awarded,
whether before or after the passing of this Act;



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graduate means a person upon whom has been conferred or who has been admitted
without examination to any degree pursuant to any Act relating to the
University for the time being in force and whether before or after the passing
of this Act;

graduate student means a person (not being an undergraduate student) who is
for the time being enrolled as a student at the University in a course or part
of a course leading to a master's degree or a doctor's degree or to a diploma
or certificate which the Council has designated pursuant to subsection (2)(b)
as a post-graduate diploma or post-graduate certificate;



head of an affiliated college means the person who is the Warden of Trinity
College, the Master of Ormond College, the Master of Queen's College, the
Rector of Newman College, the Principal of the University College, the
Principal of St. Hilda's College, the Principal of Whitley College, the
Principal of Janet Clarke Hall, the Principal of Ridley College or the
Principal of St. Mary's College, respectively, or the person who holds under
whatever designation the office corresponding to any of the foregoing offices;
and (in the case of any other residential college hereafter affiliated to or
connected with the University pursuant to section 18) means the person whom
the governing body of that college designates for the purposes of this Act as
the head thereof;

member of the academic staff includes professor;





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professor means any member of the academic staff of the University who is
entitled to rank as a professor pursuant to statutes of the University (not
being an associate professor or a professor emeritus);

professor emeritus means any person on whom pursuant to statutes of the
University the title of professor emeritus has been conferred at or after his
retirement from his office of professor;

student means a graduate student, an undergraduate student or a person
designated as a student pursuant to subsection (2)(c);

undergraduate student means a person who is for the time being enrolled as a
student at the University in a course or part of a course-

   (a)  leading to a bachelor's degree or to a diploma or undergraduate
        certificate which the council has designated pursuant to subsection
        (2)(b) as an undergraduate diploma or undergraduate certificate; or

   (b)  prescribed by or under the statutes or regulations as preliminary to a
        course for a master's degree or a doctor's degree.

(2) The council may from time to time-

   (a)  determine what persons or classes of persons constitute the academic
        staff of the University for the purposes of this Act;



   (b)  designate a diploma or certificate which may be awarded to students as
        a post-graduate diploma or post-graduate certificate or an
        undergraduate diploma or undergraduate certificate for the purposes of
        this Act;

   (c)  designate persons or classes of persons who are neither graduate
        students nor undergraduate students as students for the purposes of
        this Act; and

   (d)  designate as members of the University persons or classes of persons
        who are members of the staffs of residential colleges affiliated to or
        connected with the University under section 18.

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