Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Melbourne University (VCAH) Act 1992 - SECT 7

Students of the College

7. Students of the College



(1) On the appointed day, a person who was a student of the College enrolled
in a course which on and after that day is an award course, becomes a student
of Melbourne, and a person who was a student of the College enrolled in any
other course, becomes a student of the Company.

(2) A person who, immediately before the appointed day, was entitled to enrol
as a student of the College-

   (a)  in an award course is entitled to apply for enrolment as a student of
        Melbourne; or

   (b)  in a course other than an award course is entitled to apply for
        enrolment as a student of the Company-

in a course of study that is the same or substantially the same as that in
which he or she was entitled to enrol at the College.

(3) Despite anything to the contrary in the Melbourne University Act 1958-

(a) statutes or regulations made under that Act by the Council of Melbourne
may authorise the Council, at the request of a person who was a student of the
College before the appointed day and who enrolled in an award course before
the appointed day to confer on the student on or before 31 December 1993,
subject to and in accordance with the statutes and regulations, a degree,
diploma, certificate or other award under a name that includes the title of
the award and the words "Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture";
and

   (b)  the powers of the Council of Melbourne under section 19 of that Act
        extend to the conferring of any award on a person who becomes an
        enrolled student of Melbourne by reason of subsection (1) that the
        College might have conferred on the person if this Act had not been
        enacted; and

   (c)  a person who holds a degree, diploma or certificate of the College or
        the Company is entitled to the same benefits and privileges at
        Melbourne as are enjoyed by persons holding degrees, diplomas or
        certificates of Melbourne, as if the degree, diploma or certificate of
        the College were a degree, diploma or certificate of Melbourne.

(4) If a person was, before the appointed day, entitled to a degree, diploma,
certificate or other award of the College that had not been conferred or
granted, the degree, diploma, certificate or award must be granted by the
Council of Melbourne and, for that purpose, the Council of Melbourne may
exercise in the name of the College any power that the Council of the College
might have exercised before the appointed day in respect of that degree,
diploma, certificate or award.