MT
Regulations, 2015
Statutory Text (5 Articles)
L.N. 43 of 2015
EDUCATION ACT
(CAP. 327)
Doctor of Medicine and Surgery - M.D. - Degree Course (Amendment)
Regulations, 2015
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 Doctor of Medicine and Surgery
- M.D. - Degree Course (Amendment) Regulations, 2015 and shall be read and
construed as one with the Doctor of Medicine and Surgery - M.D. - Degree Course
Regulations 2013, published as Legal Notice 310 of 2013, hereinafter referred to as
the “principal regulations”.
Applicability
These regulations shall be applicable as from 31 October 2014 onwards,
for courses which commenced in October 2012 and later.
Amendment to regulation 9 of the principal regulations
For paragraph (5) of regulation 9 of the principal regulations there shall
be substituted the following
“(5) (a) The option to refer study-units to the following year shall be
available once only throughout the Course, except in the case of the study-units
referred to in paragraph (7) of this regulation,
provided that Second Year students shall not be allowed to refer any other study-units
to the following year.
(b) Second Year students who are not eligible to proceed to Year 3 of
the Course shall be required to successfully complete the failed study-unit/s during
an additional year of study, or to repeat the year, in both cases if eligible in terms of
these regulations.”
For paragraph (7) of regulation 9 of the principal regulations there shall
be substituted the following
“(7) In the case of assessments that can only be held once during an
academic year and hence no supplementary session is possible, students who fail
these assessments or are prevented for a reason considered valid by Senate from
being assessed in these study-units, shall be allowed to progress conditionally to the
following year of the Course, provided that they pass such assessments in that year.”
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