Irish Universities Act, 1908

Colleges.

2.(1) His Majesty may, if pleased to do so, by charter, found a new college to have its seat at Dublin.

(2) The college shall be a body corporate under such name as His Majesty may be pleased to determine, and the governing body of the college shall be constituted in manner provided by the charter.

(3) Queen’s College, Cork, Queen’s College, Galway, and the new college having its seat at Dublin, shall be constituent colleges of the new university having its seat at Dublin, and, for the purpose of making any alterations in the constitution or government of Queen’s College, Cork, or Queen’s College, Galway, which the passing of this Act renders it expedient to make by charter, His Majesty may, if pleased to do so, either alter the charter existing at the time of the passing of this Act, or grant a new charter in lieu thereof, and may, if pleased to do so, alter the name of those colleges or either of them, and provision shall be made by any such new charter or alteration of an existing charter for adequate representation of graduates and professors on the governing bodies of the constituent colleges.

(4) Nothing in this section shall prevent provision being made by the charter of the new universities under which the university may give to matriculated students of the university, who are pursuing a course of study of a university type approved by the governing body of the university in any recognised college in Ireland under teachers recognised by the governing body for the purpose, the benefit of any privileges of matriculated students of the university who are pursuing a course of study at the university, including the right of obtaining a university degree, subject to any conditions or limitations contained in the charter or statutes of the university: Provided that the university shall not give privileges under this provision to students in any college or institution in Ireland which prepares students for intermediate or other school examinations, or gives education of an intermediate or secondary kind.