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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-scotland-act-1966/schedule-2/part-II/crossheading-powers-exerciseable-by-resolution/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1966/13",
  "legislation_title": "Universities (Scotland) Act 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-scotland-act-1966",
  "path": "schedule/2/part/II/crossheading/powers-exerciseable-by-resolution/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After consultation with the Senatus Academicus and without prejudice to the provisions of section 2 of the Act of 1932, to prescribe the limitations in respect of age on the tenure of office of the principal or a professor:\nProvided that, in the case of the principalship or a professorship the nomination or appointment whereto is reserved to or exercised by the Crown, the consent of Her Majesty to any such limitation on the tenure thereof shall have been signified by the Secretary of State; and provided also that no resolution prescribing such limitation shall apply to the principal or a professor holding office at the date when the resolution is passed, unless the principal or that professor shall have consented to such application, or is by the terms of his appointment subject to such limitation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1966/13/schedule/2/part/II/crossheading/powers-exerciseable-by-resolution/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:39.138312+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."
}