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2. (a) Except as otherwise prescribed in Section 1 above, the election to a Professorship shall be made by an ad hoc Board of Electors constituted in accordance with either Section 3 or Section 4 below.

(b) The appointed members shall be appointed to serve until the election has been made and the Professor has entered upon the duties of the office, or until the General Board has published a Notice of temporary discontinuance under Part A Section 4(b) above. No person shall be appointed a member of a Board of Electors who at the commencement of their period of service or further period of service, as the case may be, would have attained the age of seventy years.

(c) The Registrary or a University officer designated by the Council (or a duly appointed deputy appointed by the Registrary or such University officer) shall act as Secretary to a Board of Electors.

(d) The membership of a Board shall be published as soon as conveniently may be after the members have been appointed.

[4] 3. If a Professorship has been assigned to a Faculty or Department, or other institution under the supervision of the General Board, the election shall be made by a Board of Electors consisting of

(a)the Vice-Chancellor or a duly appointed deputy;

(b)eight persons appointed by the Council, two on the nomination of the Council itself, three on the nomination of the General Board, and three on the nomination of the Faculty Board concerned in the case of a Professorship assigned to a Faculty or to a Department within a Faculty, or on the nomination of the comparable authority in the case of a Professorship assigned to a Department independent of any Faculty or other institution under the supervision of the General Board.

[5] 4. If the General Board considers it desirable that the assignment of a Professorship should be deferred until the election has been made to that Professorship, the election shall be made by a Board consisting of

(a)the Vice-Chancellor or a duly appointed deputy;

(b)five persons appointed by the Council, two on the nomination of the Council itself and three on the nomination of the General Board;

(c)such number of additional persons representing the branches of the subject included in the scope of the Professorship as the General Board shall determine, appointed by the Council on the nomination of the bodies deemed by the General Board to be concerned.

[12] 8. Whenever a vacancy from any cause other than lapse of time occurs on a Board of Electors, before the Electors have first met to consider a vacancy in the Professorship, a new Elector shall be appointed to fill the vacant place. If the General Board publishes a Notice under Part A, Section 4(b) above temporarily discontinuing the Professorship, the publication of the Notice shall have the same effect for the purposes of this section as if an election had been made.