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SCHEDULE C
AEGROTAT AWARD

(1) Where a student has completed at least two-thirds of the work required
for the programme of study, to the satisfaction of the Senate but has
been prevented by illness or other sufficient cause from completing the
programme of study, the Senate may confer him an Aegrotat Award in
the Faculty concerned.

(2) An Aegrotat Award is cinferred without class or distinction and it does
not necessarily entitle the holder to registration with a professional body,
or exemption from the requiremets of any professional qualification, or
progression to another academic programme or another stage of a
programme which might otherwise be associated with the programme of
study concerned.

(3) Application for consideration for the grant of an Aegrotat Award must be
made by the student, student’s family or next of kin in writing to the Dean
of the Faculty not later than one week after the end of the student’s final
examination paper. The written application must be accompanied by a
medical report issued by the Doctor of the University of Malaya Medical
Centre, government hospital or private medical centre.

(4) The Committee of Examiners shall lay before the Senate a report on the
student’s work in his programme of study which must show beyond
reasonable doubt that he or she would have obtained the degree but for
the illness or event which occurred.

(5) For coursework and mixed-mode programmes of study, the student
must have completed at least two-thirds of the credits required. In the
case of research programme of study, the student must have completed
sufficient literature review, laboratory work, papers and/or publications
and thesis/dissertation draft or other accesible evidence to indicate that,
he or she would have satisfied requirements for the programme of study,
had the incapacity not intervened.

(6) No student may be granted an Aegrotat Award on more than one
occasion.

(7) If a student dies before completing the programme of study, the Senate
may, upon the recommendation of the Committee of Examiners
concerned and upon such conditions as it shall think fit, confer a
posthumous Aegrotat Award.

(8) Application for consideration for the posthumous grant of an Aegrotat
Award must be made by the decesed student’s family or next of kin, in
writing to the Dean of the Faculty within a year from the death of the
student.

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