Section 8: Functions of the Senate of the University.

(1) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), and the provisions of this Act relating to the Visitor, the Senate shall organise and control the teaching by the University, the admission, where no other enactment provides to the contrary, of students and the discipline of students, and to promote research at the University.
(2) Without prejudice to subsection (1), it shall in particular be the function of the Senate to make provision for-
(a) the establishment and organisation and control of campuses, colleges, schools, institutes and other teaching and research units of the University and allocation of responsibility for different branches of learning;
(b) the organisation and control of courses of study in the University and of the examinations held in conjunction with those courses, including the appointment of examiners, both internal and external;
(c) the award of degrees, and such other qualifications as may be prescribed, in connection with examinations held;
(d) the making of recommendations to the Council with respect to the award to any person of an honorary fellowship or degree or the title of professor emeritus;
(e) the establishment, organisation and control of halls of residence and similar institutions at the University;
(f) the supervision of the welfare of students at the University and the regulation of their conduct;
(g) the granting of fellowships, scholarships, prizes and similar awards in so far as the awards are within the control of the University; and
(h) determining what description of dress shall be academic dress for the purposes of the University, and regulating the use of the academic dress.
(3) The Senate shall not establish any new campus, college, school, department, institute or other teaching and research units of the University without the approval of the Council.
(4) Subject to this Act and Statutes, the Senate may make regulations for the purpose of exercising any function conferred on it either this section or otherwise or for the purpose of making provisions for any matter for which provision by regulations is authorised or required by this Act or by Statute.
(5) Regulations shall provide that at least one of the persons appointed as the examiners at each final or professional examination held in conjunction with any course of study at the University, as may be prescribed by the Senate, is not a teacher at the University but is a teacher of the branch of learning to which the course relates at some other university of high repute or a person engaged in practicing the profession in a reputable organisation or institution.
(6) Subject to a right of appeal to the Council from a decision of the Senate under this subsection, the Senate may deprive any person of any degree, diploma or other award of the University which has been conferred upon him if after due enquiry he is shown to have been guilty of dishonourable or scandalous conduct in gaining admission into the University or obtaining that award.