CHARTER

At the Court at Buckingham Palace the 4th day of February, 1970

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board the Draft of a Charter for constituting a Body Corporate under the name and style of “The University of the South Pacific”:

HER MAJESTY, having taken the said Draft into consideration, was pleased by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to approve thereof, and to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the Right Honourable Michael Stewart, one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State do cause a Warrant to be prepared for Her Majesty’s Royal Signature, for passing under the Great Seal a Charter in conformity with the said Draft, which is hereunto annexed.

ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith:

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING!

WHEREAS Our Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs has on behalf of the Interim Council of the University of the South Pacific and in accordance with the wishes of the Governments of the British Solomon Islands, Fiji and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands and after consulting Our High Commissioner for the Western Pacific as regards the interests of the people of the New Hebrides, represented unto Us that it is expedient that We should constitute and found a University of the South Pacific for the maintenance, advancement and dissemination of knowledge by teaching, consultancy and research and otherwise and for the provision at appropriate levels of education and training responsive to the well-being and needs of the communities of the South Pacific and should grant a Charter with such provisions in that behalf as shall seem to Us right and suitable:

And whereas the Governments of the Cook Islands, the Republic of Nauru, Niue, the Tokelau Islands, the Kingdom of Tonga and the Independent State of Western Samoa have also expressed the wish that such a University should be established:

Now therefore know ye that we by virtue of Our Prerogative Royal in respect of Fiji and of Our especial grace, certain knowledge and mere motion have willed and ordained and by these Presents do for Us, Our Heirs and Successors will and ordain as follows:—