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THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITy
Governance Order 2024
The Council of the University makes the following order.
Dated 14 June 2024
The Hon Julie Bishop
Chancellor
Contents
Part 1— Preliminary
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Definitions
Part 2— Elections for deans and research school heads member
5 Eligibility for election and voting
Part 3— Repeal, transitional provisions and expiry
Division 3.1— Repeal
6 Repeal of instrument
Division 3.2— Transitional provisions
7 Transitional orders
8 Application of Legislation Statute, section 26
9 Transitional provisions additional
Division 3.3— Expiry
10 Expiry of instrument
Schedule 1—Deans and research school heads
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name
This is the Governance Order 2024.
2 Commencement
This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under the Governance Statute of the University[1], section 68 (General power to make rules and orders).
4 Definitions
The following notes provide information about definitions applying to terms used in this instrument.
[Note 1: The Governance Statute, section 5 (Definitions) defines terms relevant to this instrument (see Legislation Statute, section 9(1) (Terms used in authorising legislation etc.)), including the following:
* dean (see ANU Act, section 3 (Interpretation)
* deans and research school heads member (see section 9(1)).]
[Note 2: For definitions applying to University legislation generally, see the dictionary in the Legislation Statute. That dictionary defines terms relevant to this instrument, including the following:
* ANU Act
* position.]
Part 2—Elections for deans and research school heads member
5 Eligibility for election and voting
For the ANU Act, the Governance Statute and the Governance Rule:
(a) the bodies mentioned in column 2 of the table in Schedule 1 are the bodies that are to be regarded as faculties or research schools; and
(b) the person holding the position mentioned in column 1 of an item in the table is to be regarded as the dean or head of the body mentioned in column 2 of the item.
[Note: If the name of a body or position mentioned in the table in Schedule 1 changes, a reference in the table to the body or position by its previous name is taken, after the change, to be a reference to the body or position by its new name (see Legislation Statute, section 10(3) (Application of general references to University entities etc.)).]
Part 3—Repeal, transitional provisions and expiry
Division 3.1—Repeal
6 Repeal of instrument
The Governance Order 2020 is repealed.
Division 3.2—Transitional provisions
7 Transitional orders
(1) Orders made under the Governance Statute, section 68(1) (General power to make rules and orders) may prescribe matters of a transitional nature (including prescribing any savings or application provisions) relating to:
(a) the repeal of the Governance Order 2020; or
(b) the making of this instrument.
(2) This instrument (other than this section) does not limit the matters that may be prescribed by rules made for subsection (1).
(3) Rules made for subsection (1) have effect despite anything in this instrument (other than this section).
8 Application of Legislation Statute, section 26
(1) The Legislation Statute, section 26 (Repeal of University legislation) applies to the repeal of the Governance Order 2020.
(2) For the Legislation Statute, section 26 the provisions of this Division are transitional provisions.
9 Transitional provisions additional
This Division is additional to, and does not limit:
(a) the Legislation Statute, section 26 (Repeal of University legislation); or
(b) the Acts Interpretation Act, section 7 (Effect of repeal or amendment of Act), as applied by the Legislation Act, section 13(1)(a) (Construction of legislative instruments and notifiable instruments).
Division 3.3—Expiry
10 Expiry of instrument
This instrument expires 10 years after the day it commences.
Schedule 1—Deans and research school heads
1 Table of deans and research school heads
The following table specifies the bodies that are to be regarded as faculties or research schools and their deans or heads:
Table—deans and research school heads
Item Column 1 Column 2
specified positions specified bodies
1 Dean ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
2 Director Research School of Humanities and the Arts
3 Director Research School of Social Sciences
4 Dean ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
5 Director ANU Crawford School of Public Policy
6 Director Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs
7 Director School of Regulation and Global Governance
8 Director School of Culture, History and Language
9 Dean ANU College of Business and Economics
10 Director Research School of Accounting
11 Director Research School of Economics
12 Director Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics
13 Director Research School of Management
14 Dean ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics
15 Director School of Computing
16 Director School of Cybernetics
17 Director School of Engineering
18 Dean ANU College of Law
19 Head ANU Law School
20 Dean ANU College of Health and Medicine
21 Director John Curtin School of Medical Research
22 Director National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
23 Director Research School of Medicine and Psychology
24 Dean ANU College of Science
25 Director Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science
26 Director Fenner School of Environment and Society
27 Director Mathematical Sciences Institute
28 Director Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics
29 Director Research School of Biology
30 Director Research School of Chemistry
31 Director Research School of Earth Sciences
32 Director Research School of Physics
[1] The Australian National University (Governance) Statute 2024.