Irish Universities Act, 1908

Provisions as to transfer of graduates and students.

13.(1) Every person who, at the time of the dissolution of the Royal University of Ireland, is a graduate of the university, shall be entitled—

(a) if he was a matriculated student at Queen’s College, Cork, Queen’s College, Galway, University College, Dublin, or the Cecilia Street School, Dublin, to be registered as a graduate, with the corresponding degree of the new university having its seat at Dublin; and

(b) if he was a matriculated student at Queen’s College, Belfast, or Magee College, Derry, to be registered as a graduate, with the corresponding degree of the new university having its seat at Belfast; and

(c) if he was not a matriculated student at any such college, or was a matriculated student at two or more colleges giving him the right to be registered as a graduate in both new universities, to be registered as a graduate, with the corresponding degree, either of the new university having its seat at Dublin or of the new university having its seat at Belfast, at his election.

(2) Where a matriculated student at any of the colleges specified in this section, being entitled to be registered under the foregoing provision as a graduate of the new university having its seat at Dublin, desires to be admitted as a graduate of the new university having its seat at Belfast, or, being entitled to be registered as a graduate of the new university having its seat at Belfast, desires to be admitted as a graduate of the new university having its seat at Dublin, and makes an application to the governing body of the university of which he desires to be admitted as a graduate, showing special grounds for the application, the governing body of that university may admit him as a graduate, and the provisions of this section shall apply as if in that case the university of which he is so admitted to be a graduate were the university of which he is entitled to be registered as a graduate under this section.

(3) All terms kept and examinations passed by any graduate or student in the Royal University of Ireland shall, on the dissolution of that university, be deemed to be terms kept and examinations passed at the university at which he is entitled to be registered as a graduate, if a graduate, and, in any other case, at either of the two new universities at the election of the student, and the governing body of each of the two new universities shall, so far as practicable, provide for any such students obtaining degrees on conditions not more onerous than those under which they could obtain corresponding degrees in the Royal University of Ireland.