Victorian Numbered Acts

MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY (VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS) ACT 2006 (NO 62 OF 2006) - SECT 12

In Division 5 of Part I of the Melbourne University Act 1958 , after section 29 insert —

        '29A.     Establishment of the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts

    (1)         Despite section 29(1)(a), there is established a faculty to be known as the "Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts".

    (2)     The faculty—

        (a)     shall have the powers and duties that are respectively conferred or imposed on it by the statutes of the University; and

        (b)     shall consist of those persons who are declared by the statutes of the University to be members of the faculty.

    (3)     The first statute made in respect of all the matters referred to in sub-section (2) must be made not later than 1 July 2007.

    (4)     Subject to this section, the faculty is to be taken to be a faculty established in accordance with section 29.

    (5)     The objects of the faculty are—

        (a)     to foster the development and improvement of, and to provide for education in, the creative, performing and other arts, and for general education for people undertaking courses in those arts;

        (b)     to advance learning, knowledge, appreciation and competence in activities primarily or substantially directed to the creation, design, composition, interpretation, display, publication, performance or management of works of an aesthetic nature and of their conservation and elucidation;
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        (c)     to organise, conduct and participate in public performances, exhibitions, conferences, lectures, demonstrations, experiments, training and other activities relating to the arts;

        (d)     to promote critical enquiry within the College and in the general community;

        (e)     to consult and collaborate in the interests of the community with other arts organisations and people.'.

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