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University Postgraduate Awards (Amendment) Regulations, 2014
Statutory Text (5 Articles)
L.N. 345 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 20 June, 2014 onwards.
Addition of regulation 62 to the principal regulations
The following regulation 62 shall be added after regulation 61 of the
principal regulations
“Professional Misconduct and/or Unsuitability
62. (1) In the case of students following courses which involve work with
vulnerable persons, the University may at any time suspend or preclude from further
studies any student who, following appropriate investigatory procedures that Senate
may establish for such cases, is deemed to have acted or be acting in a manner which
jeopardises the welfare of the subject (whether patient, pupil, or client) or which
contravenes the relevant professional codes of conduct (i.e. professional misconduct), or
whose behaviour is deemed to be incompatible with that required by the profession (i.e.
professional unsuitability).
(2) The University may request a Police Good Conduct Certificate of
its students. Students shall inform the University if the declaration on their certificate
changes during their registration on a University course, in which case this declaration
shall be considered by a sub-committee of the Admissions Board appointed by Senate for
the purpose.”
Regulation 62 of the principal regulations shall be renumbered as
regulation 63.
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