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Doctor of Laws - LL.D. - Degree Course
Table of Provisions (6)
Statutory Text (6 Articles)
L.N. 360 of 2011
EDUCATION ACT
(CAP. 327)
Doctor of Laws - LL.D. - Degree Course
(Amendment) Regulations, 2011
IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred upon him by articles 74 (5) and 75
(6) of the Education Act (Cap. 327), the Chancellor of the University of Malta has
promulgated the following regulations made by the Senate of the University of
Malta by virtue of the powers conferred upon it by articles 75 and 79 of the said Act
Citation
These regulations may be cited as the Doctor of Laws – LL.D. – Degree
Course (Amendment) Regulations, 2011 and shall be read and construed as one with
the Doctor of Laws – LL.D. – Degree Course Regulations, 1997, published as Legal
Notice 9 of 1997, hereinafter referred to as the “principal regulations”.
Applicability
Regulation 4 shall apply from 6 th May, 2011 onwards.
Regulation 5 shall apply for courses commencing in October 2011 or later.
Amendment to regulation 4 of the principal regulations
For sub-paragraph (b) (i) of paragraph (1) of regulation 4 of the principal
regulations there shall be substituted the following
“(b) (i) for courses commencing prior to and in October 2010, have obtained
at least a 53% average in the study-units assigned to the compulsory programme of
studies of the Laws main area of study in the Bachelor of Laws course; or in the case
of students who were awarded the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Legal and
Humanistic Studies have obtained at least 54 UoM/108 ECTS credits in the Laws
main area of study and have at least a Grade C average in the Final Examinations
held in that area of study,
provided that the examinations and the credits for study-units in the Laws main area
must be those indicated by the Board as necessary for a student to proceed to the
LL.D. course, and
provided further that the Faculty Admissions Committee shall still allow a student to
proceed to the LL.D. course if he has obtained an overall mark of 52% in the
compulsory programme of studies of the Laws main area of study in the Bachelor of
Laws course, if the student has obtained an overall mark of at least 53% in the
compulsory programme of studies of the Laws main area of study in the Bachelor of
Laws course, in each of the second and third years of the course mentioned in sub-
paragraph (a) above;
or”
For sub-paragraph (b) (ii) of paragraph (1) of regulation 4 of the principal
regulations there shall be substituted the following
“(ii) for courses commencing from October 2011 onwards, have obtained at
least a 55% average in the study-units assigned to the compulsory programme of
studies of the Laws main area of study in the Bachelor of Laws course; or in the case
of students who were awarded the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Legal and
Humanistic Studies have obtained at least 54 UoM/108 ECTS credits in the Laws
main area of study and have at least a Grade C average in the Final Examinations
held in that area of study,
provided that the examinations and the credits for study-units in the Laws main area
of study shall be those indicated by the Board as necessary for a student to proceed
to the LL.D. course, and
provided further that the Faculty Admissions Committee shall still allow a student to
proceed to the LL.D. course if he has obtained an overall mark of 54% in the
compulsory programme of studies of the Laws main area of study in the Bachelor of
Laws course, if the student has obtained an overall mark of at least 55% in the
compulsory programme of studies of the Laws main area of study in the Bachelor of
Laws course, in each of the second and third years of the course mentioned in sub-
paragraph (a) above, and
provided further that the provisions of this sub-paragraph shall not apply to students
who commenced the Bachelor of Laws course on 1st October 2007 or earlier, and to
students who obtained the Bachelor of Arts in Legal and Humanistic Studies degree
and, in both these cases, the matter shall continue to be regulated by the provisions
of regulation 4 (1) (b) (i).”
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