Charles and Joy Staples South-West Region Publications Fund [F20095]

Note: These regulations are subject to Senate approval.

Charles and Joy Staples having donated $100,000 to the University for the purpose of making the results of research on the south-west region of Western Australia (i.e. the South-West Statistical Division) widely available so as to assist the people of the south-west, and those in government and private organisations concerned with projects in the south-west, to appreciate the needs and possibilities of the region in the widest possible historical perspective, a fund is established for this purpose. The fund is governed in accordance with the following regulations.

1.(1) The income from the capital sum after capitalisation, in accordance with Senate policy, is available (either by full or part subvention) for publication by The University of Western Australia Press, of books of merit in any discipline relevant to the south-west region, which may include work for doctoral, master's or honours dissertations and also for papers, collections of scholarly and other articles, bibliographical works and reports, etc.

(2) Unexpended income in any year is added to the capital sum, save that money recovered from book sales remains available in the Income and Expenditure Account.

2.(1) A South-West Region Publications Fund Committee is established as a standing committee of The University of Western Australia Press Advisory Board and consists of:

(a) two members of the Press Advisory Board plus the Deputy Chair of the Press Advisory Board or nominee as chair;

(b) up to three persons co-opted by the committee with regard to the major areas embraced by the fund's publications; and

(c) a nominee of the Vice-Chancellor and Mr Charles Staples Jr (ex-officio).

(2) The committee is responsible to the Chair of the Press Advisory Board and reports through him to the Senate on the operation of the fund.

(3) The committee meets at least once per semester to review the financial position of the fund, to consider submissions for subvention and to advise the Press Advisory Board on matters relevant to the operation of the fund.

(4) The committee from time to time considers how future contributions to the fund might be attracted from interested parties in Western Australia, and especially from the south-west region.

3. The committee must ensure that each publication supported by the fund—

(a) has a distinctive logo;

(b) contains details of other fund publications;

(c) acknowledges the support of the fund; and

(d) is distributed at the time of the publication and at the fund's expense and the committee's discretion to selected institutions in the southwest region.

4. The University of Western Australia Press is responsible for the marketing of the remainder of each publication.