{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-scotland-act-1966/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-scotland-act-1966/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1966/13",
  "legislation_title": "Universities (Scotland) Act 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-scotland-act-1966",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "University staff ineligible to become rector, or assessor on Court except in certain circumstances.",
  "text": "No person holding an appointment in any of the older Universities shall be eligible to be—\n(a) elected as rector of that University, or\n(b) nominated or elected as an assessor on the University Court by any other person or body than the Senatus Academicus:\nProvided that nothing in paragraph (b) of this section shall prejudice the right of the University Court as provided for in Schedule 1 to this Act to co-opt a person holding such an appointment or the right of a person to be appointed in accordance with section 10(1)(b) to (d) of the 2016 Act .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 11 inserted (S.) (30.12.2016) by Higher Education Governance (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 15), s. 26(2), sch. para. 3(4); S.S.I. 2016/382, reg. 2(1) (with regs. 5(4), 6(4))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1966/13/section/11",
    "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."
}