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University Undergraduate Awards (Amendment) Regulations, 2012
Statutory Text (4 Articles)
L.N. 168 of 2012
EDUCATION ACT
(CAP. 327)
University Undergraduate Awards (Amendment) Regulations, 2012
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 University Undergraduate Awards
(Amendment) Regulations, 2012 and shall be read and construed as one with the
General Regulations for University Undergraduate Awards, published as Legal
Notice 127 of 2004, hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.
Applicability
These regulations shall be applicable from October 2012 onwards.
Amendment to regulation 71 of the principal regulations
For regulation 71 of the principal regulations there shall be substituted the
following
“71. The results obtained during the failed year shall not be taken into
consideration for the award of the degree and shall not be included in the student’s
academic record, provided that
(i) at the discretion of the Board, students registered in a degree comprising
more than one Area of Study and whose overall Year Average Mark is at least 50%,
may be allowed to retain the credits obtained in a successfully completed Area of
Study. In such instances, the Board may either allow the student to register part-time
and follow the units of the failed area only, or, time-table constraints permitting, allow
the student to register also for some higher level study-units in the other area/s;
(ii) at the discretion of the Board, students registered in a degree comprising
both clinical/practical and theoretical components and whose overall Year Average
Mark is at least 50%, may be allowed to retain the credits obtained in a successfully
completed component but will be required to repeat the failed component in its
entirety.”
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