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Award of Honoris Causa Degrees (Amendment) Regulations, 2024
Statutory Text (4 Articles)
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L.N. 241 of 2024
EDUCATION ACT
(CAP. 327)
Award of Honoris Causa Degrees (Amendment) Regulations, 2024
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 regulation 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
This regulation may be cited as the Award of Honoris Causa Degrees
(Amendment) Regulations, 2024 and shall be read and construed as one with the
Award of Honoris Causa Degrees Regulations, 2017, published as Legal Notice 182
of 2017, hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.
Applicability
This regulation shall be applicable from 1 October 2024 onwards.
Amendment to regulation 6 of the principal regulations
For paragraph (2) of regulation 6 of the principal regulations there shall be
substituted the following
“(2) The University shall have the power to confer the following honoris
causa degrees on individuals for their outstanding achievements
(a) Doctor of Literature, honoris causa (D.Litt.): awarded for outstanding
achievement, usually of a scholarly or creative nature, in literature and the arts, and
including law;
(b) Doctor of Science, honoris causa (D.Sc.): awarded for outstanding
achievement, usually of a scholarly or creative nature, in the pure and applied
sciences, and including engineering and medicine;
(c) Doctor of Law, honoris causa (D.L.): awarded for outstanding or scholarly
achievement in public service and in national or international governance;
(d) Doctor of Social Sciences, honoris causa (D.S.S.): awarded for outstanding
achievement, usually of a scholarly or creative nature, in the field of social sciences;
(e) Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa (D. Phil.): awarded for outstanding
achievement in a general or pluri-disciplinary area of knowledge, not easily reducible
to any one of the other categories mentioned above; and
(f) Master of Letters, honoris causa (M.Litt.).”
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