The University of Abertay Dundee (Scotland) Order of Council 1994

General and miscellaneous

34.  The University Court shall have the power—

(a) to provide, equip, maintain, administer and otherwise promote the development of residential, catering, chaplaincy, sports, social and recreational facilities, library and teaching support services for staff and students;

(b) to establish and maintain an association of former students of the University;

(c) to acquire and take over the whole or any part of the business of any person, firm, company or body corporate or any rights or property suitable for the functions of the University Court or for any of the objects of the University;

(d) to initiate, establish or acquire companies, whether charitable or commercial, alone or in association with any other persons or entities for the purpose of, or in connection with, any of the objects of the University or the functions of the University Court;

(e) to apply for letters patent, patent rights, licences, trade marks, trade names, designs, inventions, copyrights or secret processes in its own right or in conjunction with others;

(f) to publish, print or provide for publication in any form of media any result of or matter arising from or in connection with research or scholarship and to sell or otherwise provide or supply books, publications and other goods as it deems appropriate;

(g) to sell, let, hire, feu, lease, license, charge or grant security over, give in exchange or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the business, property, assets and liabilities of the University Court;

(h) to institute, provide, maintain and award fellowships, studentships, scholar– ships, prizes and other encouragements to teaching and research and to vary and withdraw the same as it deems appropriate;

(i) to arrange for the association or affiliation by the University with any educational institution or assocation having objects wholly or partly similar to those of the University and with such other bodies public and private as may be necessary or desirable to carry out or further the objects of the University, all on such terms and conditions as may be arranged;

(j) to enter into arrangements or co–operate with any persons, educational institutions, schools, associations or public and private bodies having objects wholly or partly similar to those of the University for the purposes of or for purposes incidental to the functions of the University Court upon such terms and conditions as may be arranged;

(k) to build, alter, exchange, improve, lease, demolish or dispose of any building as it deems appropriate;

(l) to effect such insurances against such risks as it deems appropriate;

(m) to appoint such professional advisers as it deems appropriate; and

(n) to conduct legal proceedings.