The Trinity College, Dublin (Charters and Letters Patent Amendment) Act, 2000

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Number 1 (Private) of 2000

THE TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN (CHARTERS AND LETTERS PATENT AMENDMENT) ACT, 2000

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Number 1 (Private) of 2000

THE TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN (CHARTERS AND LETTERS PATENT AMENDMENT) ACT, 2000

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CHARTERS AND LETTERS PATENT UNDER WHICH TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN IS INCORPORATED. [6th November, 2000]

Preamble.

WHEREAS by Charter or Letters Patent bearing date the 3rd day of March 1592 (hereinafter called “the Foundation Charter of 1592”) granted by her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin and certain persons therein named and such other persons as should from time to time be elected in the manner therein directed were forever incorporated and erected and constituted a body corporate with perpetual succession to be called and known as the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin:

AND WHEREAS by further supplemental Charter or Letters Patent bearing date the 25th day of May 1637 and granted by his late Majesty King Charles the First (hereinafter called “the Supplemental Charter of 1637”) the Foundation Charter of 1592 was amended:

AND WHEREAS the said Charters and Letters Patent were further amended by divers Letters Patent of historical interest:

AND WHEREAS by Letters Patent bearing date the 24th day of May 1911 and granted by his late Majesty King George the Fifth (hereinafter called “the Supplemental Letters Patent of 1911”) the Supplemental Charter of 1637 was amended:

AND WHEREAS in the aforesaid Charters or Letters Patent the Corporation described as the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin is known as Trinity College, Dublin and is the sole College of the University of Dublin thereby established with perpetual succession as aforesaid and further empowered to confer degrees:

AND WHEREAS in the aforesaid Charters or Letters Patent it was among other things provided that the said Corporation shall be forever incorporated and erected and shall have perpetual succession:

AND WHEREAS in the aforesaid Charters or Letters Patent it was further provided that the said College may forever possess goods, chattels, lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever might be their kind, nature or species, renders, services and all other and singular profits for the support and relief of the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College in perpetuity:

AND WHEREAS in the Foundation Charter of 1592 and the Supplemental Letters Patent of 1911, the Provost and Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin were given authority to establish among themselves whatsoever laws they considered well constituted in the Universities of Cambridge or Oxford and judged apt and suited to the said Corporation:

AND WHEREAS it is expedient in order to promote the advantage and good government of Trinity College, Dublin that certain of the said powers, functions, jurisdictions, duties, obligations and provisions in the aforesaid Charters or Letters Patent should be repealed and that divers other amendments should be made as hereinafter provided:

AND WHEREAS it is expedient to revise the constitution of the Body Corporate as set forth in the Supplemental Letters Patent of 1911:

AND WHEREAS the government of Trinity College, Dublin under the aforesaid Charters or Letters Patent is vested in the Board of the said Corporation:

AND WHEREAS it is further expedient to revise the constitution of the Board of the said Corporation:

AND WHEREAS it is further expedient to provide for the manner in which the constitution of the said Board may thereafter be amended and the manner in which the said Board may be re-established in the event of its suspension:

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the Provost of Trinity College, Dublin shall be appointed by the said College in accordance with the laws for the governance of the College including the Consolidated Statutes for the time being in force:

AND WHEREAS this Act is presented and promoted at the request of the Board of Trinity College, Dublin with the consent of the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the said College in accordance with the laws for the governance of the College including the Consolidated Statutes for the time being in force:

AND WHEREAS it is expedient that the other provisions in this Act contained should be enacted:

AND WHEREAS the said amendments cannot be effected without the authority of the Oireachtas:

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: