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member has demitted office before their term has expired or because an insufficient number of candidates have stood for election, the committee may co-opt a new member to fill the vacancy, unless they are excluded by paragraph 3(c), and subject to their being approved at the next General Council meeting. The combined number of elected and co-opted members shall not exceed twelve. Such a co-opted member shall serve until the next round of elections, when they shall be eligible to stand as a candidate. Should there be an election for Convener or Vice-convener during their period of service, a co-opted member of the business committee shall be eligible to participate as a candidate, proposer or seconder, and they shall have a vote.
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3. (a) The elected members shall be twelve in number. (b) They shall hold office for four years. (c) An elected member shall be eligible to stand for re-election at the end of one four-year term, but having served two consecutive terms shall be ineligible either to stand for a third or to be co-opted
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Notice of Motion - Notice of every motion except procedural motions to be proposed at a meeting of the council shall be given to the Clerk in writing, signed by the member giving it, at least eight days prior to the date of the meeting in question. If the chairman is satisfied that due notice could
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4. (a) The election of members shall be by Single Transferable Vote and shall take place every two years by a process of electronic voting agreed by the general council in 2006 as revised in November 2011 and June 2014. (b) If a vacancy occurs in the membership of the committee, either because a
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2. The following shall be members ex officio: (a) The principal. (b) The Chancellor's Assessor on the University Court. (c) The Assessors of the General Council on the University Court. (d) The Conveners of all other Committees (and standing Sub-Committees) of the general council. (e) Two of the
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The duties of the business committee are to transact business remitted to the committee by the general council, to frame the programme of business to be submitted to meetings of the council, and to act on behalf of the council, under powers specifically conferred upon the committee, or in
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not reasonably have been given in respect of a specific item of business, this Order may be suspended, for the sole purpose of discussing the business in question, on the vote of two-thirds of the members present at a meeting of the council.
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Committees - The council shall appoint and determine the duties of a business committee. From time to time the council may appoint other committees to report on any matter remitted to them or to carry out instructions given to them by the
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who have been in office for more than one year, former Readers and Lecturers who were members of the Council during their tenure of office as such and who continued in the employment of the University until
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The business of the council is to take into consideration all questions affecting the well-being and prosperity of the university, and to make representations from time to time on such questions to the
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The affairs of the council are conducted by a business committee exercising duties determined by the council in accordance with the council's instructions.
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either at the request of the business committee, made by a majority of all its members, or at the request of not less than fifty members of the council.
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is entitled to vote or take part in the election of any assessor of the general council. (The senate elects its own assessors to the court.)
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are communicated in draft form to the general council, whose opinion thereon is taken into consideration.
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The Constitution and duties of the business committee, as determined by the council, are as follows:-
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1. The Business Committee shall consist of: (a) Members ex officio (b) Elected Members
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Special Meetings - Special meetings of the council shall be called through the
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on to the committee during the two years before the next round of elections.
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Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities Parliamentary Constituency
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of the University is elected by the General Council and is the
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Combined Scottish Universities Parliamentary Constituency
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co-opted members of the University Court are alumni.
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The membership of the general council is governed by
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General Council of St Andrews University
corporate body
graduates
academics
University of St Andrews
Scotland
Universities (Scotland) Act 1858
constitution
organisation
statutes
University Court
convener
business committee
assessors
Senatus Academicus
ordinance
University of St Andrews
chancellor
graduates
honorary graduates
Licentiateship in Dental Surgery
University Court
Professors
Readers
Lecturers
Chancellor
President
Universities (Scotland) Act 1966
Ordinances
Resolutions

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