{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-scotland-act-1966/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-scotland-act-1966/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1966/13",
  "legislation_title": "Universities (Scotland) Act 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universities-scotland-act-1966",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Constitution of University Courts.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of section 17 of this Act and Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the 2016 Act , the University Courts of the older Universities shall consist of the persons specified in Parts I, II, III and IV respectively of Schedule 1 to this Act.\n(2) Except as provided in section 5(2) of the Act of 1889, subsections (3) and (4) of this section and paragraphs (g) and (h) of Part I of Schedule 1 to this Act, the term of office of all assessors on a University Court to which this section applies shall be four years.\n(3) The term of office of assessors elected by the Senatus Academicus or by the General Council to such a University Court, or of members co-opted by such a University Court, shall be four years or such lesser period as may at the time of election or, as the case may be, co-option be determined by the University Court, and different periods may be prescribed for different persons.\n(4) In the event of a casual vacancy among the assessors elected by the Senatus Academicus or by the General Council to such a University Court, the person elected to fill such vacancy shall demit office at the date when the person whom he succeeded would have retired.\n(5) All assessors on such a University Court shall be eligible for further nomination or, as the case may be, re-election; and all members co-opted by such a University Court shall be eligible for further co-option.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(1) inserted (S.) (30.12.2016) by Higher Education Governance (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 15), s. 26(2), sch. para. 3(2)(a); S.S.I. 2016/382, reg. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 2(6) repealed (S.) (30.12.2016) by Higher Education Governance (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 15), s. 26(2), sch. para. 3(2)(b); S.S.I. 2016/382, reg. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1966/13/section/2",
    "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."
}