{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-scotland-act-1858/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-scotland-act-1858/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/21-22/83",
  "legislation_title": "Universities (Scotland) Act 1858",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-scotland-act-1858",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Powers of Commissioners as to University of Aberdeen. To determine number of professors, and regulate course of study.",
  "text": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Provided that in the faculty of arts there shall be a professor of Greek, a professor of humanity, a professor of logic, a professor of mathematics, a professor of moral philosophy, a professor of natural philosophy, and a professor of natural history, or, in the discretion of the Commissioners, two professors in any one or more of such branches of instruction in the faculty of arts, if it shall appear to be necessary or expedient, with power to the said Commissioners to determine where the classes of each of the said professors shall assemble; in the faculty of divinity there shall be professors of systematic theology, of Oriental languages, of church history, and of biblical criticism; in the faculty of law a professor of law; and in the faculty of medicine professors of the institutes of medicine, of the practice of medicine, of chemistry, of anatomy, of surgery, of materia medica, of midwifery, of medical jurisprudence, of botany; and such other professorships in each of the said faculties as the said Commissioners shall think to be expedient;\n2—6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1875 (c. 66), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 18 paras. 2—6 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1875 (c. 66)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "\"Commissioners\" means Commissioners appointed under s. 14c"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/21-22/83/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:14:15.616010+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}