University Postgraduate Awards (Amendment) Regulations, 2014

L.N. 237 of 2014

EDUCATION ACT

(CAP. 327)

University Postgraduate Awards (Amendment) Regulations, 2014

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 (3) and 79 (b) of the said

Act

Citation

These regulations may be cited as the University Postgraduate Awards

(Amendment) Regulations, 2014 and shall be read and construed as one with the

General Regulations for University Postgraduate Awards, published as Legal Notice

120 of 2008, hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

Applicability

These regulations shall be applicable from 21 March, 2014 onwards.

Amendment to regulation 31 of the principal regulations

The following paragraph (2) shall be added after paragraph (1) of

regulation 31 of the principal regulations.

“(2) If a student is prevented for a reason considered valid by Senate from being

assessed in a study-unit, the student shall be required to complete the previous year’s

requirements in an additional year of study. Under no circumstances shall a student be

allowed to progress from the current year to a subsequent year if the requirements of the

year previous to the current have not been satisfied.”

Paragraph (2) of regulation 31 of the principal regulations shall be renumbered

as paragraph (3).

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