Part 69: Scatcherd Scholarships

Approved with effect from 28 April 2014 (Gazette, Vol. 144, p. 463, 8 May 2014); amended 13 January 2023 (Gazette, Vol. 153, p. 132, 1 December 2022)

69.1. The University has received with gratitude a legacy from Mrs Jane Ledig-Rowohlt to be held as expendable endowment on the trusts declared in this regulation. Further money or property may be paid or transferred to the University to be held on the same trusts. The assets so held will be known as the Scatcherd Scholarships Fund (“the Fund”).

69.2. The University shall retain as permanent endowment those of the assets (if any) in the Fund which are contributed on the express understanding that they are to be treated as permanent endowment (“the Permanent Endowment”).

69.3. The University shall (a) apply the income of the Permanent Endowment (if any); and (b) apply the income and, in its discretion, the capital of the remainder of the Fund, towards: (i) awarding scholarships to students of Oxford University allowing them to engage in study or research in other countries; and (ii) awarding scholarships with preference being given to students ordinarily resident in a nation of continental Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals with the exception of Turkey.

69.4. The administration of the Fund, and the application of its income and capital, shall be the responsibility of the board of management of the Oxford Graduate Scholarship Fund.

69.5. The University may in its absolute discretion in the period ending 21 years from the date of this regulation, instead of applying the income of the Fund in any year, accumulate all or any part of such income by investing it, and holding it as part of the capital of the Fund. The University may apply the whole or any part of such accumulated income in any subsequent year as if it were income of the Fund arising in the then current year.

69.6. The University shall have power to pay out of the capital or the income of the Fund all costs of and incidental to the creation of the Fund, and the management and administration of the Fund and the Scholarship.

69.7. The University may exercise any of its corporate powers in the management and administration of the Fund in so far as those powers are not inconsistent with these regulations.

69.8. Sections 69.1–69.10 shall be deemed to be trust provisions under the provisions of Part D of Statute XVI.

69.9. Subject to section 69.10, Council may amend, repeal or add to these regulations in accordance with Part D of Statute XVI, but no amendment is valid if it would cause the Fund to:

(1) cease to be exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales; or

(2) be outside the objects of the University.

69.10. Any amendment to section 69.3 is an amendment to the main objects of the Fund for the purposes of Part D of Statute XVI and must be approved both by Congregation of the University and subsequently by His Majesty in Council.

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