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Disciplinary Policy Terms and Conditions Controlling the Conduct of Students in Residence The Resources Manager, RHAC is responsible for administering the terms, conditions and agreements for Rural Health Academic Centre residences. Each resident shall sign a Residency Agreement Form to accept the terms and conditions of using RHAC accommodation before taking up residency. The Accommodation Handbook is provided to all students on entering Rural Health Academic Centre residences and contains the rules and regulations by which residents are bound. Disciplinary Policy 50 Minor Offences The following behaviour will be regarded as a minor offence and may result in one or more of counselling, warning, fine and compensation as appropriate: • Unacceptable level of noise • Lack of reasonable cleaning or care of equipment or facilities • Minor damage to property and equipment • Minor disturbances • Inappropriate behaviour causing inconvenience, annoyance, hurt or embarrassment to other residents or staff • Careless attention to the safety and security of other residents • Non-declaration of overnight guests • Excessive consumption of alcohol • Smoking in non-designated areas Major Offences • Wilful damage to property and equipment • Interference with another student’s room • Raids • The possession of firearms or weapons • Assault on any person on the premises • Theft of food, equipment, money or clothing in residence • The storing, growing, selling or taking of illegal substances • Wilful misuse of fire or safety equipment • Creation of a major disturbance in the residence • Physical, emotional or sexual harassment of residents or staff • Major breaches of security and safety of the residence and its members • An accumulation of 3 or more formal warnings Procedure for Major Offences In all cases, the Resources Manager may choose to suspend the resident while the case is considered. If criminal activity is alleged the Resources Manager will not undertake any further enquiries but will refer the matter immediately and directly to the police for investigation and action. Persons found guilty of a criminal offence will be evicted from the residences. In cases that are not referred to the police, the Resources Manager will invite the alleged offender to respond to the allegation in writing within a specified period of not more than five working days. A meeting may subsequently be convened. Rural Health Academic Centre disciplinary policies must be adhered to.
If the offence is proven, the Resources Manager may suspend or evict the offender, impose a fine or probation period and/or refer the offender to a counsellor or specialist area of the University. The resident may choose to discuss his/her position with the Resources Manager at any time during this procedure. Appeals A resident disciplined by the Resources Manager may appeal to a Disciplinary Appeals Committee comprising the Manager, RHAC and one other member of the academic staff appointed by the Chair of the RHAC. Appeals must be in writing and submitted within five working days of the Resources Manager’s decision. Internet Usage: Privileges and responsibilities of users is reproduced below for student information. Internet access is provided for study purposes only. Privileges and Responsibilities of Users: 1. Facilities may only be used for authorised purposes. 2. No user may engage in any act or practice, or omit to do any act or practice, which constitutes a misuse of any of the facilities. 3. Any use of facilities which incurs a charge from a provider must be approved by the provider, and if applicable, also by the organisational unit which will be paying the charge. 4. Any user who becomes aware that facilities are being used by any person to infringe the intellectual property rights of another person, or that the effect of any use of any facilities is to infringe such rights, must notify the University copyright officer forthwith. Schedule 1 of the Policy, “Misuse”, is provided below for your information. For the purposes of regulation 8.3.R2 ‘misuse’ includes, but is not limited to: a. use for any purpose other than an authorised purpose; b. use that causes or contributes to a breach of any provision of a law, statute, regulation, subordinate instrument or code of practice or conduct applying to the University or to which users are subject; c. use that contravenes a University statute, regulation, rule, policy or procedure; d. creating, transmitting, storing, downloading or possessing illegal material; e. the deliberate or reckless creation, transmission, storage, downloading, or display of any offensive or menacing images, data, or other material, or any data capable of being resolved into such images or material, except in the case of the appropriate use of facilities for properly supervised University work or study purposes; f. use which constitutes an infringement of any intellectual property rights of another person; g. communications which would be actionable under the law of defamation; h. communications which misrepresent a personal view as the view of the University; i. deliberate or reckless undertaking of activities resulting in any of the following- i. the imposition of an unreasonable burden on the central facilities or a local facility; ii. iii. iv. corruption of or disruption to data on the central facilities or a local facility, or to the data of another person; disruption to other users; or introduction or transmission of a virus into the facilities. j. circumventing user authentication or access control measures, security or restrictions upon the use of any facilities or account, including the unauthorised distribution or use of tools for compromising security, including but not limited to password guessing programs, cracking tools, packet sniffers or network probing tools; k. gambling on-line, other than participation in approved football-tipping and like competitions, where the primary purpose is social rather than financial; 51 Disciplinary Policy 51
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