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Statute XXII.

Irish Universities Act, 1908

University College, Cork

We, the Governing Body of University College, Cork, under and by virtue of the powers in that behalf conferred on us by the said Act, Do by this present instrument under the Seal of University College, Cork, make the Statute contained in the Schedule hereof for the general government of the said College.

Given under the Common Seal of University College, Cork, this twenty-ninth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight.

Present when the Common Seal of University College, Cork, was affixed:

(Signed)
P. J. MERRIMAN, President.
C. BOYLE, Governor.
JOSEPH DOWNEY, Secretary.

Statute XXII.

Schedule

CHAPTER I.
ELECTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNING BODY.

Election by the Graduates.

All references to the Election by the Graduates in (c) Chapter VI., Statute 1., are hereby revoked and the following shall be read in lieu thereof:-

  1. The election by the Graduates of the Members of the Governing Body whom the Graduates are entitled to elect shall be at a Meeting, hereinafter called the Election Meeting specially called by the President for that purpose. Such Election Meeting shall be held on a day appointed by the President which shall be not more than two months or less than fourteen days before the date at which the Governing Body then in being shall go out of office. The President, or his Deputy, or the Acting-President, as the case may be, or in the absence of all of them, the Registrar shall be the Chairman at such Election Meeting.
  2. At least twenty-eight days' notice of the Election Meeting shall be given by the Registrar.
  3. To be eligible for election a candidate must he nominated by a Nomination Paper signed by two Graduates of the University who are members of the College, which shall be lodged with the Registrar at least twenty-one days before the Election Meeting. The candidate must be a Graduate of the University, who is a Member of the College.
  4. If a candidate who is nominated at an election by the Graduates of the University who are Members of the College, is not one of those Graduates, the nomination shall be invalid and null.
  5. If at any such election no more persons are validly nominated as candidates for election than the number of persons which the Graduates are entitled to elect, the candidates so nominated shall be deemed to be elected, and shall be declared by the Chairman of the Election Meeting to be elected accordingly. If more candidates shall be nominated than the Graduates of the University who are Members of the College are entitled to elect, there shall be a poll.
  6. At the election by the Graduates the poll shall be taken by Voting Papers marked and sent or delivered to the Scrutineers in accordance with the provisions of the following Sections:-
  7. For the purpose of such election, as soon as may be after the time for lodging Nomination Papers shall have expired, the Registrar shall prepare and shall send by post, not less than ten days before the Election Meeting to each registered Graduate a Voting Paper containing in dictionary order the names of all candidates validly nominated for election by the Graduates.
  8. Such Voting Paper shall he accompanied by a printed paper of instructions which shall contain the following:-
  9. The Voting Paper shall also he accompanied by :-

    Form of Declaration of Identity.
    Declaration of Identity.

    I hereby declare that I am the Registered Graduate for whom the Voting Paper and envelope in which it was enclosed (both of which I now produce) were intended.

    Voter's Signature______________

    University Degree______________

    The above-named, who is personally known to me, has produced the envelope above referred to and has acknowledged his signature to the above Declaration in my presence.

    Witness' Signature____________

    Address________________________

    Description____________________

  10. The Declaration of Identity shall be signed by :-
  11. Subject to the provisions of Sections 17 and 18, the votes for the Election of Members of the Governing Body by the Graduates shall be the votes of the Graduates of the University who are registered as Members of the College present at the Election Meeting given by Voting Papers accompanied by a Form of Declaration of Identity and banded to the Scrutineers at the Election Meeting together with such Votes of Members not present at the Election Meeting as shall have been validly given by Voting Papers and returned by Post with a Declaration of Identification to the Registrar, and received by him at the College before the commencement of the Election Meeting.
  12. Not less than three days before the day of the Election Meeting the President or in his absence his Deputy, or the Acting-President, as the case may be, shall appoint three registered Graduates to be Scrutineers.
  13. It shall not be necessary that any greater number of the Graduates who are registered as Members of the College than two shall be present at the Election Meeting.
  14. At the Election Meeting of the Graduates the Registrar shall deliver unopened to the Scrutineers, or in their absence to the Chairman of the Election Meeting, such of the envelopes which he lies received as bear on the outside the word " Election."
  15. If any envelopes have been received by him which do not bear such word "Election" and have been opened by him, he shall deliver the envelope marked " Voting Paper " and the accompanying form of Declaration of Identity to the Scrutineers and those Graduates present at the Election Meeting who have not forwarded to the Registrar Voting Papers shall, during the Meeting hand to this chairman their Voting Papers enclosed in the envelope marked "Voting Paper " together with the Declaration of Identity duly completed.
  16. The fact that an outer envelope sent to the Registrar did not bear the word " Election" on the outside shall not vitiate the vote.
  17. At such Election Meeting any Graduate present whose Voting Paper shall not have been received by the Registrar before the commencement of the Election Meeting, who shall give to the Scrutineers evidence satisfactory to them of his identity, and of his having sent his original Voting Paper to the Registrar or of his having lost or spoilt it, shall obtain from the Registrar a Paper marked with the words " Duplicate Voting Paper," stud also a Form of Declaration of Identity marked with the word " Duplicate."
  18. If before the termination of the Election Meeting such Graduate procures such duplicate Voting Paper with the duplicate Declaration of Identity Form to be duly completed, as required in the case of an original Voting Paper, he may hand the same to the Scrutineers who shall count such vote with the original Voting Papers; but in case an original Voting Paper issued to any Graduates who shall have obtained a duplicate Voting Paper shall be received by the Scrutineers, they shall count the original Voting Paper only.
  19. The Scrutineers shall examine and shall count the votes, and in any case of doubt as to the validity of a vote, shall determine the same. The decision of this Scrutineers or the decision of the majority of them shall be final.
  20. They shall report in writing to the Chairman of this Election Meeting the result of the voting ; and if they are equally divided as to the validity of any vote, the question shall be determined by the Chairman at the Election Meeting.
  21. The Chairman shall declare the persons who have obtained the greatest number of lawful votes, not exceeding the number of persons whom the Graduates of the University who are Members of the College are entitled to elect, to have been duly elected as Members of this Governing Body.
  22. In case there shall be an equality of lawful votes, for two or more persons, and the number of persons who have obtained a greater number of lawful votes together with the number of persons having an equality of lawful votes shall be greater than this number of persons whom the Graduates of the University who are Members of the College are entitled to elect, this election as between the persons having such equality of votes shell tie determined by the casting vote of this Chairman at the Election Meeting.
  23. The Chairman shall declare the person or persons whose election has been so determined, with any other person who had obtained a greater number of lawful votes, to be duly elected.
  24. Immediately after any such election the Registrar or other proper officer of the College shall give notice thereof to the Secretary or other proper Officer of the College.
  25. For this purposes of this Chapter "the Registrar" shall mean the Registrar of the College or other proper officer,
  26. Chapter 1, of Statute to XXI. is hereby revoked.

CHAPTER II.

  1. Section 2, Chapter IV. of Statute XXI. in so far as the Lectureship in Hygiene and Public Health is thereby created, is hereby revoked to the intent that the said Lectureship shall cease to exist as from this 25th day of May, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-Eight.
  2. There shall be in the College in the event of such Professorship and Lectureships being instituted within the College by the Senate of the National University of Ireland, the following Professorship and Lectureships :-
    A Professorship of Hygiene and Public Health at a salary of £150 per annum;
    A Lectureship in Public Health at a salary of £50 per annum, and
    A Lectureship in Municipal Engineering at £50 per annum.
  3. The said Professorship and Lectureships shall not be deemed to be full-time Professorship or Lectureships within the meaning of the Statutes .
  4. The said Professorship and Lectureships shall be tenable upon the same conditions, and the holders thereof shall be subject to this same duties and obligations as if the said Professorship and Lectureships had been instituted by Chapter XIII. of Statute I. of University College, Cork.

CHAPTER III.
Date of coming into Operation and Mode of Citation.

  1. The Statute shall come into operation on the Twenty. Ninth day of May, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty- eight.
  2. This Statute shall be construed with and as part of said Statutes I. to XXI. of University College, Cork and may be cited as Statute XXII. of University College, Cork, or Stat. XXII., Univ. Coll., Cork.

Present when the Common Seal of University College, Cork, was affixed.

(Signed)
P. J. MERRIMAN, President.
C. BOYLE, Governor
JOSEPH DOWNEY, Secretary.