### University of Hong Kong Ordinance 《香港大學條例》

7. Court, Council and Senate, their constitutions, powers and duties
(1) There shall be a Court, a Council and a Senate whose respective constitutions, powers, and duties shall be prescribed by this Ordinance and the statutes.
(2) The Court shall, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and the statutes, be the supreme advisory body of the University. (Amended 20 of 2011 s. 2)
(3) The Council shall be the supreme governing body of the University, and shall provide for the custody and use of the University seal, and subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and the statutes, the Council may exercise all the powers and is to perform all the duties of the University other than those vested or imposed by this Ordinance or the statutes in some other authority of the University or in an officer. (Amended 20 of 2011 s. 2)
(4) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and the statutes, and to the financial control of the Council, the Senate shall have the regulation of all matters relating to education in the University.
(5) No act or resolution of the Court, the Council, or the Senate shall be invalid by reason only of any vacancy in, or any want of qualification by or invalidity in the election or appointment of any member of, any such body.

8. Faculties and Institutes
(1) There shall be Faculties of Arts, Social Sciences, Science, Medicine, Engineering, and such other Faculties as may be constituted by the Court on the recommendation of the Council and the Senate. In the Faculty of Arts due provision shall be made for the study of the Chinese language and literature. (Amended 49 of 1960 s. 2; 81 of 1978 s. 2)
(2) There shall be a Board and a Dean of each Faculty with such powers respectively as may be prescribed by this Ordinance and the statutes.
(3) The Council may, on the recommendation of the Senate, form, dissolve or reform such institutes, schools, centres, units and other sub-divisions of studies and learning as it may from time to time consider desirable. (Replaced 1 of 1968 s. 6)

9. Convocation
(1) There shall be a Convocation, whose constitution, powers and privileges shall be as prescribed by the statutes.
(2) Convocation shall have such and so many representatives in the Court and on such conditions as may be prescribed by the statutes.

10. Honorary Degrees Committee
For the purpose of advising the Chancellor with regard to the award of honorary degrees, there shall be an Honorary Degrees Committee which shall consist of such persons as shall be provided by the statutes.
(Amended 63 of 1996 s. 2)

### University of Hong Kong Ordinance 《香港大學條例》

11. Committees generally
(1) The Court, the Council, the Senate, and the Board of any Faculty respectively may establish such committees as they think fit.
(2) Unless otherwise expressly provided, any committee may consist partly of persons who are not members of the Court, the Council, the Senate or the Board of any Faculty, as the case may be.
(3) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and the statutes, the Court, the Council, the Senate, and the Board of any Faculty respectively may, with or without restrictions or conditions as they think fit, delegate any of their powers and duties to any committee.

### University of Hong Kong Ordinance 《香港大學條例》

13. Statutes
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the University shall be governed in accordance with the provisions of the statutes.
(2) The Council may propose to the Court additions to, or the amendment or repeal of, any of the statutes, whereupon on the recommendation by the Court to the Chancellor, the Chancellor may make any such addition, amendment, or repeal as recommended by the Court.
(3) Every such addition, amendment and repeal made by the Chancellor in accordance with subsection (2), shall be published in the Gazette, and may be published in the Gazette of the University or in such other manner as the Chancellor may direct.
(4) The statutes contained in the Schedule shall be deemed to have been made under this Ordinance.
(5) The Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1) shall apply for the purposes of the interpretation of the statutes as it applies for the purposes of the interpretation of an Ordinance, and all expressions defined in this Ordinance shall bear the same meaning when used in the statutes, unless other provision is made in the statutes or a contrary intention otherwise appears.

14. Examiners
All examinations held by the University shall be conducted in such manner as the statutes and any regulations made thereunder may prescribe:
Provided that for degree examinations for the final year and such other examinations for degrees as the Senate may from time to time recommend, at least one external and independent examiner shall be appointed for each subject or group of subjects forming part of the course of studies required, if practicable.

15. Power to confer degrees, etc.
The University shall have power—
(a) to confer such degrees as may be specified in the statutes;
(b) to award diplomas and certificates and such other academic distinctions as may be specified in the statutes;
(c) to provide such lectures and instruction for persons not members of the University as the University may determine, and to grant certificates to such persons;
(d) after due enquiry, to deprive persons of such degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic distinctions as may be specified in the statutes. (Added 78 of 1994 s. 2)

### University of Hong Kong Ordinance 《香港大學條例》

16. Saving
Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of the Central Authorities or the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region under the Basic Law and other laws, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.
(Added 1 of 1968 s. 8. Amended 53 of 2000 s. 3)