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expired 5 and the repeals proposed would delete references to them from the face of the statute book. 3.3 The two Universities and their colleges have been consulted over these proposals as has the Privy Council and the Department for Education and Employment. No objections have been made. 20 Durham University Act 1861 3.1 According to its long title, the purpose of the Durham University Act 1861 was to make provision for the good government and extension of the University of Durham. In common with the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Acts referred to above, the 1861 Act provided for the appointment of Commissioners to achieve that result. They were given wide powers to examine accounts and other documents and to make Ordinances for maintaining and imposing the discipline, studies and good government of the Universities and Colleges. The Act provided for their powers to expire no later than 1st July 1863. Moreover the University is now governed exclusively in accordance with modern university statutes. 6 The Act is accordingly spent and may be repealed. The University and colleges, the Privy Council and the Department for Education and Employment have been consulted on this repeal proposal. There have been no objections. 21 Victoria University Act 1888, University of Wales Act 1902, University of Liverpool Act 1904, Leeds University Act 1904, University of Bristol Act 1909, Sheffield University Act 1914, University of Reading Act 1926, University of Nottingham Act 1949, University of Southampton Act 1953 3.1 These Acts contain broadly similar provisions to ensure that all job opportunities, privileges and exemptions that might be available to graduates from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge or London should be equally available to graduates from the newer Universities. Indeed, with the exception of the University of Bristol Act 1909 and the post-1914 Acts, this was the sole purpose of the Acts. They reflect a striving on the part of new Universities for equality of status with the older Universities on the basis that a degree that would provide job eligibility or exemption from further qualification if granted by Oxford, Cambridge or London should carry the same weight if granted by one of the new Universities. The first of these Acts, the Victoria University Act 1888, provided the model for the subsequent Acts. 7 3.2 These provisions are now obsolete and are recommended for repeal. The degrees awarded by the newer Universities no longer need statutory equivalence with Oxford, Cambridge or London. Whilst the newer Universities are less venerable than the long-established institutions, the statutory provisions concerning the status of their degrees no longer serve any practical utility and are now unnecessary. All the Universities affected by the proposal to repeal 5 The powers of the Oxford Commissioners expired on 31 December 1926. Those of the Cambridge Commissioners expired on 31 December 1927. 6 Under the provisions of the Universities of Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Act 1963. 7 The Victoria University is still the proper style of Manchester University. Originally the University comprised the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds. 58
these provisions have been consulted as has the Department for Education and Employment. None have objected to the proposals. 59
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