Please note - Swinburne University of Technology

In the case where the Committee, after considering the
reports of the examiners, decides that the degree be
awarded subject to the inclusion in the thesis of minor
specified amendments, such amendments shall be
made and submitted to the Registrar within three
months of the candidate being notified of the
Committee's decision.
In the case where the Committee, after considering the
reports of the examiners, decides that the thesis be
returned to the candidate for major revision, the revised
thesis must be submitted to the Registrar within twelve
months of the candidate being notified of the Committee's
decision; the thesis may be submitted only once in
its revised form and upon re-examination the examiners
may recommend only that the thesis be passed or
failed. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee
the revised thesis shall be examined by the same examiners
as performed the initial examination.
11. Patents and registered designs
The patent rights or right to register a design for any
device, process, chemical or the like which has been
invented or developed by a candidate in the course of
the program being undertaken for the degree shall,
unless otherwise determined by Council on the advice
of the Committee, be the property of Swinburne
University of Technology.
12. Confidentiality
In general the public should have access to the material
contained in a doctoral thesis once the degree has
been awarded. Where a program of research is carried
out in or in conjunction with the type of organisation
referred to in 4.3.2 above, the candidate, in order to
pursue such a program, may be given access by that
organisation to restricted information which the
candidate or the organisation does not wish to disclose
freely. In such cases the Committee must receive, in
writing, from the organisation, notice of such materials
and the reason why, in its opinion, disclosure would be
undesirable.
Where such material is involved and provided the Committee's
prior approval is obtained, the candidate may
submit a thesis in two volumes, one containing the
general thesis, the second containing only the restricted
data or information.
The Committee may restrict access to the second
volume for a specified period.
Where the thesis has only one volume, the Committee,
on receipt of a request in writing from the candidate
and supported by a statement in writing from the Head
of Department, may order that, for a period of up to
three years from the date of that order, the copies of
the thesis forwarded to the University Library and the
department shall be made available only to researchers
or readers specifically authorised in writing by the
Committee.
13. Copyright
Copyright in the thesis is the property of Swinburne
University of Technology. Those rights, or any part of
them, may be assigned by Council, on the advice of
the Committee, to the candidate.
14. Regulations
The Committee may make or amend regulations under
this statute regarding the admission to candidature,
reports on candidates during the period of candidature,
the examination of candidates and related matters.
15. Change in statute
This statute may be amended from time to time by
Council on the advice of the Academic Board acting on
the recommendation of the Committee. In the event of
an amendment being made subsequent to the
beginning of a student's candidature, that candidate
may elect to continue under the statute which was in
effect at the time candidature began.