Section 18: Removal of academic and administrative officers and staff

(1) If it appears to the Council that there are reasons for believing that the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, the Provost of a college or any other person employed as a member of the academic or administrative staff of the University or a college should be removed from his office or employment on the ground of misconduct or of inability to perform the functions of his office or employment, the Council shall-
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(a) give notice of those reasons to the person in question;
(b) make arrangements-
(i) for a joint committee of the Council and the Senate to investigate the matter, where it relates to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, the Provost of a college, or the Registrar, and to report on it to the Council; or
(ii) for a committee of the Senate to investigate the matter, where it relates to any other member of the staff of the University, and to report on it to the Senate and to the Council; and
(c) make arrangements for the person in question or his representative to be afforded an opportunity of appearing before and being heard by the investigating committee with respect to the matter, and if the Council, after considering the report of the investigating committee, is satisfied that the person in question should be removed as aforesaid, the Council may so remove him by an instrument in writing signed on the directions of the Council.
(2) It shall be the duty of the person by whom an instrument of removal is signed in pursuance of subsection (1) of this section to use his best endeavours to cause a copy of the instrument to be served as soon as reasonably practicable on the person to whom it relates.
(3) If it appears-
(a) in the case of the Vice-Chancellor, to the Council;
(b) in the case of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, the Provost of a college or any other person employed as mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, to the Vice-Chancellor, that the person in question should be removed from his office or employment on either of the grounds mentioned in the said subsection (1), the Council or, as the case may be, the Vice-Chancellor, may by a notice signed on the directions of the Councilor by the Vice-Chancellor, prohibit him from exercising the functions of his office or employment with a view to his removal; and on exercising his powers under this subsection the Vice-Chancellor shall forthwith refer the case to the council, and the Council shall give such directions in the matter as it thinks proper.
(4) Nothing in subsection (3) of this section shall be construed as affecting a person's entitlement to the emoluments of his office or employment during the period of any prohibition imposed in pursuance of that subsection.
(5) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this section shall apply to employments of such descriptions as may be designated for the purposes of this subsection by statute or by regulations.