University Secretary's Department Statutes and Regulation

Statute 9.16 - The Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria Incorporated

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Recitals

  1. By section 18 of the Melbourne University Act1958 power is conferred on the University to make and alter statutes for the affiliation to or connection with the University of any college or educational establishment subject to certain conditions set out in that section.
  2. The Mental Health Research Institute of Victoria Incorporated ("the Institute") was incorporated under the provisions of the Associations Incorporation Act 1981 to carry out various objects including teaching and research in the field of mental health, behaviour and neuroscience.
  3. By an agreement made on 1 September 1987 the University and the Institute agreed to the affiliation of the Institute to the University.
  4. The Institute has consented to the provisions of this statute.

Affiliation of the Institute

9.16.1 (1) The Institute is an educational establishment affiliated to the University for the purposes of-

    1. promoting the teaching and supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students of the University and providing facilities therefor;
    2. promoting and encouraging appropriate research amongst such students and providing facilities therefor;
    3. providing a co-operative effort between the staff of the Institute and the staff of the University towards teaching and research in areas of common interest; and
    4. promoting and encouraging appropriate research between members of staff of the Institute and members of staff of the University and providing facilities therefor.

(2) Nothing in this statute requires the University to bear any part of the cost of the provision of facilities for teaching or research work in the Institute.

(3)This affiliation ceases on the termination for any reason of the agreement referred to in recital 3.

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