University Secretary's Department Statutes and Regulation

Statute 9.17 - Murdoch Childrens Research Institute

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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 Murdoch Institute for Research into Birth Defects Limited (‘the Institute’) a company limited by guarantee, was incorporated under the provisions of the Companies (Victoria) Code on 20 May 1986 and its objects are-
    1. to undertake and promote research into the incidence and causes of birth defects and bodily afflictions and diseases of all kinds and in particular of infants and to seek to discover methods of preventing reducing or curing the same;
    2. to undertake and promote medical and scientific research of all kinds and education in the methods and techniques of such research and the use and application of the results thereof;
    3. to provide premises laboratories equipment and apparatus for the purpose of undertaking such research;
    4. to promulgate and make use of the results of such research;
    5. to permit other persons to use any information or discovery resulting from such research; and
    6. subject to the Companies (Victoria) Code to do all such other things and exercise all such powers and privileges as a natural person may do or exercise.
  3. By an agreement dated 15 July 1986, the Institute and the University agreed to the affiliation of the Institute to the University.
  4. The Institute has consented to the provisions of the statute.
  5. The Institute changed its name to ‘The Murdoch Institute Limited’ on 16 June 1998 and to ‘The Murdoch Institute’ on 26 June 1998 and to ‘Murdoch Childrens Research Institute’ on 15 June 2000 in compliance with requirements of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and with due alterations to its Constitution.

Affiliation of the Institute

9.17.1 (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) The University may, from time to time as the need arises, appoint the director of the Institute to be the David Danks professor of Child Health Research.

(3) 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.

(4) This affiliation ceases on the termination of the agreement referred to in recital 3 and on revocation of this statute whichever is the later.

 

[Title am., Recital 5 en. 2/9/02, ss 9.17.1(2) and (4) subst. 5/9/05, approved by the Minister 30/12/05.]

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