The appointment was subject to the university statutes, which, inter alia, required the applicant to retire from office at the age of 67.
There is also a Senior Treasurer, who, by university statutes, must be a senior member of the university.
He was expelled shortly afterwards when it was discovered that he had been an apothecary, a "manual trade" expressly banned by the university statutes.
As required by the university statutes, to become a faculty member he was required to submit and defend a thesis on a medical topic of his choice.
While proctor he headed the opposition of the senate to the code of university statutes which had passed the great seal in 1570.
Sh Vinay Kumar was considered an authority on educational law and university statutes.
The Privy Council therefore deals with a wide variety of matters, including university statutes, graveyards, coinage, and dates of bank holidays.
Subsequent to the adoption in 1999 of a new university statute, the UFS entered a significant growth period.
The new university statute instituted in 1970 involved democratisation of the management of the university.
In January 1556-7 he was among those empowered by the senate to reform the composition for the election of proctors and to revise the university statutes.