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  2. Paper: The Queen's College, Oxford
  3. Unit: 40 Years in 40 Objects

Order in Council (1978)

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Order in Council (1978)

Changes in the College’s statutes all have to be approved by a meeting of the Queen’s Privy Council. This order of the Queen-in-Council, dated 25 July 1978, approves the changes made to allow the admission of women.

One might expect it to be complex, but in fact it merely deletes thirteen words from the existing statutes.