First Session, 45th General Assembly

53 Elizabeth II, 2004

BILL 42

AN ACT TO AMEND THE COLLEGE ACT, 1996

AND THE MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY ACT

Received and Read the First Time

Second Reading

Committee

Nov. 29/04 Amendment

Third Reading

Royal Assent

HONOURABLE TOM HEDDERSON

Minister of Education

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY

NOTES

Clause 1 of this Bill would amend the

College Act, 1996 to increase the number of student members on the board

from one to 2.

Clause 2 of the Bill would amend the Memorial University Act to increase the

number of student members on the Board of Regents from 2 to 4, which would increase

the size of the board from 28 to 30 members.

That clause would further amend the

Act so that student members would be recommended to the board by the Council of

Students' Union , the Graduate Students' Union , the Marine Institute Students' Union and the Grenfell College Students' Union .

In clause 3 of the Bill, the Memorial

University Act would be amended by increasing the number of student members

on the Senate from 12 to 13, with at least one member being a representative of

the Marine Institute.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE COLLEGE ACT, 1996 AND

THE MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY ACT

Analysis

COLLEGE

ACT, 1996

S.10 Amdt.

Membership of board

MEMORIAL

UNIVERSITY ACT

S.22 Amdt.

Constitution of board

3. S.54 Amdt.

Constitution of senate

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

COLLEGE ACT, 1996

RSNL1990 cC-22.1

1. Subsection 10(4) of the College Act, 1996

is repealed and the following substituted:

(4) Two of the members appointed to the board

under subsection (1) shall be students of the college who

(

a) are nominated by the executive body of the

student association of the college; and

(

b) notwithstanding

section 11, shall hold office

for a period of up to 2 years and if qualified under paragraph (

a) are eligible

for re-appointment to the board, but after 2 consecutive terms on the board, are

no longer eligible for re-appointment.

MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY ACT

RSNL1990 cM-7

as amended

2. Paragraph 22(2)(

d) of the Memorial University Act is repealed and the following substituted:

(d) 4 members appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor

in Council being full-time students of the university who

(

i) meet the requirements set out in the

regulations, and

(ii) are recommended to the Lieutenant-Governor in

Council by the board following the recommendation to the board of one candidate

each from the following student unions:

(

A) the Memorial University

of Newfoundland Students' Union ,

(

B) the Graduate Students' Union,

(

C) the Marine Institute Students' Union, and

(

D) the Grenfell College

Student Union.

3. Paragraph 54(

d) of the Act is repealed and the following substituted:

(d) 13 members from the students in attendance at

the university, including at least one student from the Marine Institute, one graduate student and one student from Grenfell College, with all

members to be chosen in a manner approved by the board.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer