University Secretary's Department Statutes and Regulation

Statute 9.44 - Royal Botanic Gardens Board

 

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[Enacted 14/6/95.]

Recitals -

  1. By sub-section 18 (3) of the Melbourne University Act 1958 power is conferred on the University to make and alter statutes for the affiliation with the University of any commercial, cultural, educational, sporting or other institution or body if -
    1. the affiliation would assist in attaining any of the objects of the University; and
    2. the governing body of the institution, organisation or body has consented to the affiliation.
  2. The Royal Botanic Gardens Board ("the Board")was established as a body corporate by the Royal Botanic Gardens Act 1991 with the following objectives -
    1. to conserve, protect and improve the botanic gardens and managed land and their collections of living plants;
    2. to conserve and enhance the State botanical collection and National Herbarium;
    3. to provide for the use of the State botanical collection or plants or plant specimens at the botanic gardens or managed land for scientific or reference purposes, consistent with accepted international practice;
    4. to increase public knowledge and awareness of plants and plant communities;
    5. to provide for the use of the botanic gardens for education, public enjoyment and tourism.".
  3. By an Agreement dated 2 May 1995 the Board and the University have agreed to the affiliation of the Board to the University.
  4. The Board has consented to the provisions of this statute.

Affiliation of the Board -

9.44.1 (1) The Board 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 students and providing facilities therefor;
  3. promoting a co-operative effort between staff of the Board and University staff towards teaching by the University and research in areas of common interest; and
  4. promoting and encouraging appropriate research between members of staff of the Board 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 at any of the Board's premises.

(3) This affiliation ceases on the termination of the Agreement referred to in recital 3.

 

[Edit. am. 9/4/97.]

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