Charles Darwin University Act 2003

(1) The Council may make by-laws, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing matters:

(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

(b) the method of electing members of the Council under section 9(1), including procedures relating to nominating, enrolling, voting, counting of votes and declaring the polls;

(c) the manner and time of convening, holding and adjourning the meetings of the Council, voting at meetings, the powers and duties of the Chancellor or other person presiding at meetings, and the conduct and recording of the business at meetings;

(d) the appointment of committees of the Council, and the quorum, powers and duties of those committees;

(g) the granting of degrees, diplomas, certificates and honours by the University;

(h) the granting of fellowships, scholarships, exhibitions, bursaries and prizes by the University;

(i) the admitting of students of other universities or educational establishments to a corresponding status or of graduates of other universities to a corresponding degree or diploma of the University without examination;

(j) the establishing, managing and controlling of libraries and museums in connection with the University;

(k) the establishing, managing and controlling of halls of residence established, and other accommodation provided, by the University;

(l) the affiliation, association or connection with the University of an educational or research establishment, wherever situated, to which the governing body of the establishment consents;

(m) the controlling and investing of property of the University, including property held on trust or subject to a condition;

(n) the protecting of property of or under the control of the University from trespass, damage or misuse;

(o) the regulation and control of access to, and the use of, land and buildings of or under the control of the University and the conduct of persons and the presence and use of vehicles thereon;

(p) the terms and conditions of appointment of academic and other staff;

(q) the recognition of the status of graduate for the purposes of this Act;

(t) the method for collecting fees and charges determined by the Council under section 31 and the recovery of costs and charges associated with collecting those fees and charges.

(i) bringing a vehicle onto or parking or standing a vehicle on a site in breach of a by-law;

(iii) driving a vehicle on a part of a site at a speed in excess of a speed that, in relation to that part, is prescribed, determined by a method prescribed or fixed by a person authorised by a by-law so to do in respect of the site or that part;

(iv) driving a vehicle on a part of a site contrary to a direction, whether given by a person authorised by a by-law so to do or by a traffic control device on the site; or

(v) doing on a site with or in respect of a vehicle any other act that is prescribed,

provide that the person who was in charge of the vehicle at the material time or the owner of the vehicle (whether or not the owner was in charge of the vehicle at the material time) is liable to be punished for the offence;

(b) define who is the owner of a vehicle for the purposes of the By-laws;

(i) parked or left standing on a site in a position that obstructs, interferes with or causes danger to other vehicles on the site or to users of the site; or

(d) prescribe the proof that is necessary or sufficient to establish a matter relevant to an offence created by the By-laws.

(4) A by-law referred to in subsection (3)(a) cannot be construed so that the owner of a vehicle and the person in charge of it at the time an offence was committed with or in respect of the vehicle are both liable for the one offence.

(5) The By-laws are not subordinate legislation for the purposes of section 57 of the Interpretation Act 1978.

site means land or a building the property of or under the control of the University.