Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Monash University (Chisholm and Gippsland) Act 1990 - SECT 8

Students of Chisholm and Gippsland

8. Students of Chisholm and Gippsland



(1) On the Appointed Day, a person who, during 1990, was a student of a
Merging Institute and has not ceased to be a student of the Merging Institute
at that day, becomes a student of Monash.

(2) Despite anything to the contrary in the Monash University Act 1958-

(a) statutes or regulations made under that Act by the Council of Monash may
authorise the Council, at the request of a person who becomes a student of
Monash by reason of subsection (1), to confer on the student, 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 "Chisholm Institute of Technology" or "Gippsland Institute of
Advanced Education" as the case requires; and

   (b)  the powers of the Council of Monash under section 23 of that Act
        extend to the conferring of any award on a person who becomes an
        enrolled student of Monash by reason of subsection (1) that a Merging
        Institute might have conferred on the person if this Act had not been
        enacted; and

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

(3) A person who immediately before the Appointed Day was enrolled as a
graduate of a Merging Institute is entitled to the same benefits and
privileges as a graduate of Monash.

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

(5) A person who, at the Appointed Day, has any right or entitlement to be
enrolled as a student of a Merging Institute has the equivalent right or
entitlement to be enrolled as a student of Monash.