# Universities Tests Act 1871, Section 2: Interpretation of terms.


In the construction of this Act—
The word “college” includes the cathedral or house of Christ Church in Oxford, and any hall not being a private hall established under the Oxford University Act 1854, nor being a hostel established under the Cambridge University Act 1856.
The word “office” includes every professorship other than professorships of divinity, every assistant or deputy professorship, public readership, prelectorship, lectureship, headship of a college or hall, fellowship, studentship, tutorship, scholarship, and exhibition, and also any office or emolument not in this section specified, the income of which is payable out of the revenues of any of the said universities, or of any college within the said universities or which is held or enjoyed by any member as such of any of the said universities, or of any college within any of the said universities.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/34-35/26/section/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/universities-tests-act-1871/section-2
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