University Undergraduate Awards (Amendment) Regulations, 2016

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L.N. 397 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, published as Legal

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

Applicability

These regulations shall be applicable from 23 rd September, 2016 onwards.

Amendment to regulation 42 of the principal regulations

For the interpretation of Grade I in regulation 42 of the principal

regulations there shall be substituted the following

Descriptor

“ Grade

I

Temporary grade for (a) incomplete work due to justifiable reasons

(illness, approved absence, etc.) for which the assessment date has

been postponed or deadline for submission of work has been extended

or (b) work which is being considered in terms of the disciplinary

procedures stipulated in the University Assessment Regulations,

2009.”

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Amendment to regulation 60 of the principal regulations

For paragraph (1) of regulation 60 of the principal regulations there shall

be substituted the following

“60. (1) Students referred to in regulation 59 who take up the option to

refer failed units (including any passed components) to the following year shall be

considered to have progressed conditionally and shall not be allowed to continue with

the Course if, after the supplementary assessment session of that year, they would

have failed again to obtain the required credits for any of the referred units.”

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