3.1 Each year the Academic Board may award University Honours Medals and University Medals in recognition of the achievement of outstanding academic merit in the previous academic year.
3.2 Each year the Academic Board will determine the minimum Medals Score for the following year, based on the recommendation of the University Medals Committee.
3.3 Each Faculty Board will nominate suitably qualified candidates for consideration by the University Medal Committee.
3.4 Normally, the Academic Board will award one University Honours Medal and one University Medal per Faculty each year.
3.5 The University Medals Committee may recommend to the Academic Board that, in exceptional circumstances where two eligible students from the same Faculty, with the same Medals Score, cannot be meaningfully separated, a second University Honours Medal, or University Medal, be awarded.
3.6 The University Medals Committee may recommend to Academic Board that no award will be made in a particular year if no suitably qualified candidates have been nominated by the Faculties and endorsed by the University Medals Committee.