University Undergraduate Awards (Amendment) Regulations, 2016

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L.N. 305 of 2016

EDUCATION ACT

(CAP. 327)

University Undergraduate Awards (Amendment) Regulations, 2016

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 Undergraduate Awards

(Amendment) Regulations, 2016 and shall be read and construed as one with the

General Regulations for University Undergraduate Awards, 2004, published as Legal

Notice 127 of 2004, hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

Applicability

These regulations shall be applicable from 1st July, 2016 onwards.

Amendment to regulation 1 of the principal regulations

For the interpretation of “Referral/Referred Study-Unit/Referred

Assessment” in regulation 1 of the principal regulations there shall be substituted the

following

A failed or incomplete study-unit which students are allowed to

Referral /

refer to the following year as follows

Referred

Study-Unit

(a) students who are referring a failed study-unit are required

/ Referred

to be reassessed in all components (including any passed

Assessment

components) except those components where reassessment is

not practicable;

(b) students who are referring an incomplete study-unit due to

a valid reason are required to be reassessed in all components

except the passed components.

In both cases, attendance for lectures is not obligatory.

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Amendment to regulation 59 of the principal regulations

For paragraphs (a) and (b) of regulation 59 of the principal regulations

there shall be substituted the following

“(a) refer the failed study-units (including any passed components) to the

following year to be done over and above the study-units indicated for that year; or

(b) repeat the failed study-unit/s (including any passed components) in an

additional year of study if the student is in the final year of the Course; or”

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