(1) The Honorary Degrees Titles and Tributes Committee is established as a Committee of Council, in accordance with Council's policies for honorary appointments. (2) The establishment of this Committee and the delegation of Council powers to it, are actions authorised under Section 17 of the University of New England Act 1993 (NSW) (UNE Act). The provisions of this document take effect as a Council Rule made under Section 29 of the UNE Act. (3) The Committee will consider and make recommendations to Council on proposals and conferment of honorary degrees, titles and tributes. (4) The members of the Committee are as follows: (5) University Secretary (or nominee). (6) Any other person invited by the Chair. (7) Elected members of the Committee will be elected by either Council or Academic Board at their respective meetings, as appropriate. (8) The ex-officio members (Chancellor, Deputy Chancellor, VC&CEO, DVC and Chair of Academic Board) will be Committee members whilst they hold their primary office. (9) The Lay Council members will be the Committee members for two years or such other time as determined by Council, or until they cease to be a Council member, whichever occurs first. (10) The Professor, under 4(g) above, will be a Committee member for two years or such other time as determined by the Academic Board, or until they cease to be a member of Academic Board, whichever occurs first. (11) The Chancellor will Chair this Committee. In the absence of the Chancellor, the Deputy Chancellor will Chair the Committee. If the Chair is unavailable to act as Chair for any period then the Committee will elect a temporary Chair to act during the period that the Chancellor and Deputy Chancellor are unavailable. (12) The objective will be to ensure, so far as is practicable, that the membership of the Committee includes the following gender representation: (13) Where it is necessary for the Chair to co-opt (a) member(s) to meet this objective, the member(s) so co-opted will be from the Council. (14) The functions of the Committee are to: (15) Not applicable. (16) This committee has delegated authority from the Council to perform on behalf of Council the approval, advice and monitoring functions set out in the terms of reference above and all matters ancillary to those functions. (17) The Chair of the Committee will report to Council regularly on the business conducted by the Committee. (18) The Committee will meet as required in order to perform its functions. Committee members should be given at least seven days notice of the meeting, or such shorter notice period as is practicable where the matter is urgent. The Committee is expected to use technology and "flying minutes" to attend to urgent matters. (19) Unless the Chair directs otherwise, Committee business papers will be distributed to Committee members and official attendees, at least seven days prior to the meeting, or such shorter period as is practicable in the circumstances. Business papers must be treated confidentially by recipients. Any external disclosure of business papers should be made via the University Secretary. (20) A quorum shall consist of a simple majority of the members of the Committee at the time the meeting is held. (21) For its business papers, meetings and otherwise to conduct its business the Committee and its members may use technology including telephone, video-conferencing, telepresence, email and internet as arranged by the Chair and/or University Secretary. (22) The Committee may pass a resolution by "flying minute" provided that the resolution has been approved by a simple majority of the Committee members at the time the resolution is made. (23) Draft minutes will normally be circulated to members for comment promptly after each meeting. Next the minutes (with any necessary changes) will be circulated for adoption by the Committee. The minutes will be finalised and adopted when they have been approved by a majority of the members present at the relevant meeting. Alternatively, the minutes may be included in the business papers for the next Committee meeting and considered/adopted by the Committee at that meeting. (24) Once every twelve-month period, the Committee shall devote at least one part of one meeting to the review of its policies, practices and procedures over the preceding 12 months. (25) The University Secretary and/or nominee will act as secretary and provide administrative support to the Committee. (26) Words and phrases used in this document have the following meanings, unless the context requires otherwise: (27) This document should be interpreted using the following principles:Terms of Reference (Council approved) - Honorary Degrees, Titles and Tributes Committee
Section 1 - Overview
Establishment of Committee
Objectives
Section 2 - Committee membership
Membership
In attendance
Official attendees
Other
Election procedure for elected members
Term of office
Chair
Gender representative objectives
Section 3 - Terms of reference
Functions
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Section 4 - Sub-committees and working groups
Section 5 - Delegations
Delegation from Council
Section 6 - Conduct of Committee business
Reporting to Council
Meetings
Business papers
Quorum
Use of technology
Resolutions
Confirmation of minutes
Self-Review
Secretary to Committee
Section 7 - Definitions and interpretation
Definitions
Interpretation
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however it operates as a delegation of certain authorities that have been retained by Council.