IN exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 30(5) and 31(6) of the Education Act (Cap. 327), the Chancellor of the University of Malta has promulgated the following bye-laws made by the Board of the Faculty of Laws in virtue of the powers conferred upon it by section 37(1) of the said Act and which have been approved by the Senate of the University of Malta as required by section 37(2) of the said Act:

Citation and interpretation

1. (1) These bye-laws may be cited as the Bye-Laws of 1997 for the Degree of Master of Philosophy - M.Phil. - in the Faculty of Laws.

(2) In these Bye-laws unless the context otherwise requires ­

"the Board" means the Board of the Faculty of Laws;

"the Degree" means the Degree of Master of Philosophy - M.Phil.

Applicability

2. These bye-laws shall be applicable from March 1994 onwards.

Registration

3. Applications shall be open to candidates who have graduated either with an LL.D., or with a degree with Law as an area of study and were placed in the upper half of the classification in the examinations of this or another university recognised for this purpose by the Senate.

4. The Board may, in special cases, allow candidates who do not satisfy the requirements specified in Bye-Law 3 to register. Such applications shall include evidence that the candidate has attained the level of proficiency stipulated in Bye-Law 3 and a recommendation by a member of the academic staff willing to act as supervisor. The Board may lay down additional requirements including the taking of one or more qualifying examinations.

5. The application for registration must include the title of the proposed dissertation and a brief account of it.

Dissertation

6. Unless otherwise specified by the Department concerned, the length of the dissertation shall not exceed 50,000 words.

7. A student shall be required to submit three copies of the dissertation for examination which must be adequately bound. Within one month of passing the examination of the dissertation, the student must submit two copies of the dissertation one of which should be deposited at the University Library bound as follows: in cloth (preferably black) with stiff boards and good quality end papers; with lettering (preferably in gold) on the front and spine showing:

(i) the name of the student;
(ii) the title or short title of the dissertation;
(iii) the degree for which the dissertation is submitted; and
(iv) the year of submission.

Maps, diagrams, graphs, printed material, etc., should be bound with the dissertation, but if this is not possible they should be presented separately in special folders or volumes and numbered.

8. The text must be typed on A4 sheets, on one side only, in double spacing and with a margin of 40 mm to the left and at least 20 mm to the top, bottom and right.