Commonwealth Scholarships Act 1959
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1959 c. 6 |
| Year | 1959 |
Commonwealth Scholarships Act, 1959.
(8 & 9 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 6
An Act to make provision for matters arising out of the recommendations of the Commonwealth Education Conference.
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission.
(1) There shall be a Commission, to be known as the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Commission’), which shall be charged with the duty of—
(a ) selecting the recipients of awards arising out of the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan to persons coming to the United Kingdom,
(b ) making arrangements for the placing of the recipients at universities, university colleges, colleges of technology or other appropriate establishments in the United Kingdom, and for the supervision of their work during the currency of their awards,
(c ) selecting persons to be put forward as candidates from the United Kingdom for awards arising out of the said Plan and to be granted in countries outside the United Kingdom, and
(d ) discharging any other functions arising out of the said Plan which the Secretary of State may assign to the Commission.
In this subsection ‘the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan’ means the Plan so named which was put forward by the Commonwealth Education Conference held at Oxford in July, nineteen hundred and fifty-nine.
(2) The persons to be selected in pursuance of paragraph (a ) of the foregoing subsection shall be Commonwealth citizens or British protected persons (within the meaning of the British Nationality Act, 1948 ) except where the Commission for special reasons, approved by the Secretary of State, otherwise determine.
(3) The Commission shall consist of a chairman and not less than nine nor more than fourteen other members appointed by the Secretary of State, and not less than four of the members shall be persons appointed as the holders of high academic office.
(4) A member of the Commission shall hold and vacate office in accordance with the terms of his appointment, and shall be eligible for reappointment, but may at any time resign his office by notice in writing to the Secretary of State.
(5) The quorum at any meeting of the Commission shall be six, but...
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