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GWANDA STATE UNIVERSITY
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(2) Every promotion of a person to a post or grade within the non-academic
staff shall be effected by a Non-Academic Staff Promotions Committee appointed by
the Council consisting of—
(a)
a Pro-Vice-Chancellor, who shall be chairperson; and
(b)
the Registrar; and
(c)
the Bursar; and
(d)
(e)
the Librarian; and
two members of the Council who are not members of staff of the
University; and
one representative of each category of the non-academic staff prescribed
in the Statutes; and
one representative of each faculty or institute where the person to be
promoted works.
(f)
(g)
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Staff Disciplinary Committee
(1) There shall be a Staff Disciplinary Committee which shall consist of the
following members appointed by the Vice-Chancellor—
(a)
a retired judge, who shall be the chairperson; and
(b)
a senior member of the academic or administrative staff; and
(c)
a member of the academic, technical or administrative staff of similar
status to the person charged; and
(d)
a registered legal practitioner of at least five years’ standing who does
not hold any post at the University, and who is nominated annually by
the Council; and
one member appointed by the Council from among its members who are
not members of the University staff.
(e)
(2) One member referred to in subsection (I)(b) or (c) shall belong to the
same department or facility as that to which the person charged belongs.
(3) Three members of the Staff Disciplinary Committee shall form a quorum.
(4) All matters to be decided at any meeting of the Staff Disciplinary
Committee shall be decided by a simple majority and, in the event of an equality of
votes, the chairperson or person presiding shall have a casting vote in addition to his or
her deliberative vote.
(5) The functions of the Staff Disciplinary Committee shall be to investigate
any breach of a Statute, regulation or ordinance or other misconduct on the part of any
member of staff of the University and, subject to subsection (6), to recommend to the
Vice-Chancellor the punishment to be imposed on, or order to be made in respect of,
the member if it finds him or her guilty of such misconduct.
(6) A person charged with misconduct referred to in subsection (4) shall have
a right of audience before the Staff Disciplinary Committee.
(7) Where the Staff Disciplinary Committee has found a person guilty of
misconduct referred to in subsection(4), the Committee shall recommend to the ViceChancellor for his or her determination, any one or more of the following—
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