Hong Kong Ordinances

THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORDINANCE - SECT 11

Committees of the Council

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The Council may create such committees as it thinks fit and any such
committee may consist partly of persons who are not members of the Council.

(2) The chairman and vice-chairman of any committee appointed under subsection
(1) shall be appointed by the Council from among the members of the Council.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), the Council may in writing, with or without
restrictions or conditions as it thinks fit, delegate any of its powers and
duties to any committee created under subsection (1).

(4) The Council shall not delegate to any committee created under subsection
(1) the power-

   (a)  to approve the terms and conditions of service of persons in the
        employment of the University;

   (b)  to cause the preparation of the statements required under
        section 18(2);

   (c)  to make statutes under section 23;

   (d)  to appoint or remove from office the President, the Provost or any
        Vice-President under section 12, or to approve the duties to be
        undertaken by the Provost or any Vice-President under that section.
        (Replaced 24 of 2008 s. 5)

(5) Subject to the directions of the Council, each committee may determine its
own procedure at its meetings. (Enacted 1987)