Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L00996:reg:85
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L00996
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 85
Character Range: 90276–92957

85      Re-examination by resubmission of thesis

(1)    This section applies if the Associate Dean decides that the student be re-examined by resubmission of thesis.

(2)    The Delegated Authority must, in writing, appoint a person to advise the student during the process of revising the student's thesis.

(3)    The student must, within the required period, revise the thesis and resubmit the revised thesis for examination.

(4)    In subsection (3):
required period means:

(a)    12 months after the day (the notice day) the Registrar:

(i)    tells the student in writing about the Associate Dean's decision; and

(ii)    gives the student a statement of the Associate Dean's reasons for the decision; and

(iii)    gives the student everything else the student is required to be given under section 83(4) (Decision of Associate Dean following thesis examination) in relation to the decision; or

(b)    if the Associate Dean fixes a shorter period by written notice given to the student—that shorter period.

(5)    However, the Delegated Authority may, by written notice given to the student, extend (or further extend) the required period. But any extension must not go beyond 24 months after the notice day.

(6)    The Associate Dean must, in writing, appoint at least 2 examiners to examine the revised thesis.

(7)    An examiner may, but need not be, an examiner who examined the student's initial thesis.

(8)    Division 6.4 (Thesis examiners) applies to the appointment of an examiner under this section, and to an examiner appointed under this section, with any necessary changes.

(9)    Each examiner must give the Registrar a written report on the examiner's examination of the revised thesis.
[Note: If a form is approved under the Legislation Statute for this provision, the form must be used.]

(10)    The report must include one of the following recommendations:

(a)    that the student be granted the research award;

(b)    that the student be granted the research award subject to the student making specified corrections or revisions, to the satisfaction of the Delegated Authority, in the copy of the thesis to be deposited with the University Library;

(c)    that the student be failed.

(11)    If the thesis is a thesis by compilation, a recommendation under subsection (10)(b) must relate only to the exegesis of the thesis or unpublished works.

(12)    To remove any doubt, the report may not recommend that the student be re-examined by resubmission of thesis or that some or all of the student's coursework during the program be re-examined.

(13)    The Registrar must give a copy of the examiners' reports to the Delegated Authority.