Consolidates

(N23/7;16.05.2018)

TSMU Representative Council Decree # 23/3 of 7 March 2018

1. The Faculty of Public Health (hereinafter referred to as a "Faculty") is the main educational, educational and scientific and administrative unit of the University of Tbilisi State Medical University (hereinafter referred to as the “University”), which provides all levels of educational programs, scientific research and practical work Implementation, contains professional development, granting appropriate academic qualifications and qualifications.

2. The faculty is obliged to create the best conditions for students to study and do the research independently, to ensure the relevant standards in the relevant field of science and the ability to receive future oriented education and to improve the quality of training for the students. To promote the successful completion of educational programs. In case of successful completion of educational programs, the graduate will be given the appropriate academic degree and permission to give the document certifying the appropriate degree.

3. The teaching language is Georgian. According to the University's decision Faculty studies can be implemented in English and / or other foreign languages, of the agreement with the Ministry of Education and Science (№23/3, 12.02.24).

4. The structure of the faculty may consist the study departments, which will implement the higher educational and vocational academic educational programs. Language centers of The Georgian and foreign languages and, scientific research laboratories, library and support structural units.

5. The Faculty statute will be approved by the Representative Council with the participation of the Academic Council.

6. Faculty activities are carried out on the basis of acting legislation, University Statute, Internal Regulation and Present Regulation.

7. The faculty has a round seal and blank sheet 

1. The goal of the faculty is to prepare the specialists of high qualification as well as easily adaptable compatible with the changing professional environment in accordance with the modern requirements.

2.     The main tasks of the faculty are as follows:

a) To elaborate the plan for main directions and teaching strategies, also to establish appropriate educational programs and curriculum;

b) To participate in the elaboration of the rules for acceptance of university academic staff approved by the university academic board;

g)     At the beginning of the academic year, determine the coefficients for the Unified National Examination;

d) To elect management representatives according to the university rules and regulations;

e) To Create a quality Assurance service;

F)   To establish the issues related to property and benefits of the finances attracted by the Faculty and its ownership within the limits of the Georgian legislation and regulation as well as the university statutes;

g)     Participate in the development and elaboration of the main strategy of university education and scientific policy.

2. The main directions of the faculty activities are:

A) Preparation and retraining of highly qualified specialists;

B) Implementation of pre-diploma and postgraduate (postgraduate, postgraduate) study programs by using modern methods of scientific research and appropriate skills;

C) Develop, implement and develop continuous professional education and professional development programs;

D) coordination of training, scientific-research and practical work of the departments;

E) To implement and develop relevant content, orientation and structure programs and curriculum of the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System;

F) Cooperation with international training and scientific-research centers and implementation of joint scientific-research projects;

G) To elaborate and implement guidelines, methodical recommendations and guidelines;

H) Preparation and retraining of scientific and pedagogic staff, and promoting qualification, further development of pedagogical methods and technologies;

I) To promote practical activities of professors and teachers.

1. The faculty is the main teaching-scientific and administrative unit of the university, which ensures the training of students and the granting of appropriate qualifications.

2. The faculty management bodies are:

A) Faculty Board;

B) Faculty Dean;

C)    Faculty Quality Assurance Service.

3. Structural units of the faculty are:

A) Program directions and departments,

B) The curriculum committee;

C) Dean’s office;

D) Dissertation Board.

E) Public Health High School;

F) Center of Georgian Language.

G) Preparatory Center

H) Foreign Languages Center

4.     The program directions and departments of the faculty are:

a.     Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health Direction:

b)     Hygiene and Medical Ecology Department;

c)     Health Promotion Department;

c)     Department of Nutrition, Geriatric Medicine, Environment and Occupational Health (No. 23/9, 26.07.21).

a)     Department of Public Health Management, Policy and Economy;

b)     Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

5.   In order to conduct the educational process and scientific research in a coordinated manner, An educational direction (department) is created at the faculty, which ensures the implementation of educational and scientific programs at the faculty.   The main function is the development of curricula and syllabi of the educational discipline, the implementation of the educational process, methodical recommendations and guidelines. Creation, development of scientific projects - implementation, planning and implementation of practical (laboratory, etc.) activities.

6.    The main responsibility of the head of the educational direction (department) is the uninterrupted and highly qualified conduct of the educational process according to the approved curriculum (syllabus), coordination of work between the educational departments of the direction. The head of the direction (department) is responsible for the timely fulfillment of other obligations established by the law, and is accountable to the rector, the faculty council and the dean of the faculty.

1. The Faculty Board is a representative body of the faculty, composed of all members of the faculty academic staff and student self-government. The number of elected representatives from the local self-governing body is 1/4 of the faculty board.

2. The Faculty Board may be a professor, associate and assistant professor.

3. The Faculty Council shall exercise the authority granted by the Georgian legislation and the Charter of the University.

4.   The Faculty Council conducts its activities in accordance with the Council's regulations. The activities of the faculty council are coordinated and the dean of the faculty is responsible for the implementation of the decisions made.

5. Faculty Council:

A) Submits to the Chancellor of the University the draft budget of the Faculty;

B) On the basis of free and equal elections, by secret ballot, the list the majority of the composition elects the Faculty Dean;

C) Will develop and submit to the university academic council for the approval of the Faculty Development Strategy Plan, Training and Scientific-Research Programs.

D) Elaborates the faculty structure and regulation by the proposal of the dean and submits it to the Representative Council for approval;

E) Elaborates the Dissertation Board's Statute and submits it to the Academic Council for approval;

F) Elects the Head of the Faculty Quality Assurance Service;

G) To examine dean's termination of the authority of the Dean at least 1/3 of the Faculty Council members on the grounds that the Dean has failed to perform the inadequate performance of the duties imposed by the Dean, inadequately performing the duties imposed on the Dean and / or dean. Decision on early termination of the authority of the Dean shall be made by secret ballot, by a majority of the composition of the list. The Dean does not participate in the ballot para. Complaint against the decisions taken on these issues does not cause suspension of the disputable act;

H) In case of early termination of the authority of the Dean, the acting dean shall be appointed;

I) Fulfills other powers granted by the Universal Statute and Regulations of the University.

6. The faculty council, with the majority of the votes of the full composition, is authorized to create commissions and working groups to study specific issues with the participation of council members. It is possible to create commissions and working groups of specialists, experts, public representatives, university representatives invited by the Council with the participation of experts, public representatives, university employees and other interested persons

7. The Faculty Council session is authorized if it is attended by more than half of the total number of members of the Board. The registration of the members of the Council is registered with the Council Secretary (registration data is attached to the minutes of the meeting and is an integral part of the protocol) before the meeting is opened.

8. The sessions of the Faculty Council shall be formalized with the protocol of continuity of registration. Facilitates the Secretary of the Board. The protocol is accompanied by all the materials attached to the topic of discussion under the agenda of this session. The chairperson and secretary of the meeting confirms the authenticity of the protocol.

9. The protocol of the Faculty Council Meeting shall include:

A) Date and place of the meeting;

B) The list of members and invited persons;

C) Identity of persons declared;

D) The agenda;

E) Decisions.

10. The Faculty Council is authorized to make a decision in the form of a decision. All matters related to the competence of the Faculty Board.

11.   In the event that there is only one issue to be discussed at the faculty council meeting, the council is entitled to make a decision in the form of electronic communication. The decision will be considered adopted if it is supported by the majority of the faculty council members. The dean of the faculty makes a decision on the consideration of the issue in electronic form (N23/8; 24.07.2019).

1. The Faculty Council elects the Dean of the Faculty with a secret ballot for four years in accordance with the rules established by the University Regulations. One and the same person can be elected twice in a row. The Faculty Council announces the announcement of the registration of candidates for the Dean's position no later than 1 month before the start of the registration of candidates with the principles of transparency, equality and fair competition. Registration lasts no less than 1 and no more than 2 weeks. Elections are held at least 10 days and not later than 30 days after the registration of candidates.

2. The Dean of the Faculty shall be elected in accordance with the provisions of the University Regulations. A professor or associate professor can be elected on the position of the Dean;

3. Dean of the faculty:

A) Ensures the efficient course of educational and scientific activities at the faculty;

B) Submits the faculty's development plan, educational and scientific-research programs to the Faculty Council for consideration;

C) Develops and submits to the faculty council for approval the faculty structure and regulations is responsible for fulfilling the decisions of the University Academic, Representative and Faculty Board within its competence;

d)    Within the scope of his competence, he is responsible for the implementation of the decisions of the university's academic, representative and faculty council;

e)    Presides over the faculty council sessions;

f)     In accordance with the law and the university charter, is responsible for the targeted use of the faculty budget;

g)   Exercises other powers granted by the applicable legislation and the university charter for the early termination of the authority of the Dean, the grounds for the early termination of the authority of the Academic Board shall be applied.

4.   For the early termination of the dean's authority, the grounds established for the early termination of the academic council member's authority shall be used.

5.   In the case of the dean's temporary failure to exercise his powers, the deputy dean of the faculty performs his duties.

1.  The faculty dean's office deliberative body is the dean's office, in which the dean, the deputy dean(s), the head of the quality assurance service of the faculty, the secretaries are included in the official capacity. The dean's office executes the decisions made by the faculty council.

2.  The dean's office of the faculty carries out planning, organization and control of the faculty's educational, scientific and methodical work.

3.  Functions of Deans office are:

a)  Development of documentation related to training schedule and teaching process planning;

b)  Registration and control of all kinds of educational processes at the faculty;

c)  Organization of the learning process at all levels of teaching;

d)  Development of measures to increase the quality and effectiveness of teaching students, masters and doctoral students;

e)  Planning and organization of methodical work;

f)   Organization and control of scientific work;

g)  Quality control of pedagogical work;

h)  Developing plans for further improvement of the faculty development prospects and material and technical base

4.  Deputy Dean\s functions are:

A)  Control of the student's training programs correctly; 

B)  Inform students and professors about current training and scientific processes;

B)  Control of the fulfilled training tables 

C)  Control of the course of lectures and seminars;

D)  Management and control of the exams;

E)  Introduction of study programs for students, supporting orientation and drawing up of their own curriculum programs, explaining the relations of programs;

F)  Periodic control of student personal cases;

5. Deputy Dean shall be appointed on the basis of the Decree of the Faculty Dean by the Order of the Rector;

A) Registration of students, binding personal affairs, creation of computer database and demographic data base and systematic updating 

B) Organization of signing of agreements with students; 

C) Providing information about tables, lists, assignments and student movement for relevant structures;

D) Issuing certificates and information to students;

E) Preparation, issuing, receiving and processing examination statements; Statistical processing of academic data;

F) Control students’ academic and financial debts; organization of attestation of students of the final course, Verification of demographic data to complete the diploma, 

G)    Bind the personal case of students and submit them to the archives. 

1. The procedure for drafting and selection of the Dissertation Board and its activities shall be determined by the Academic Council in accordance with the provisions approved by the Faculty Council.

2. The Dissertation Board is the body to be awarded to the Doctor's academic degree, which is created on the faculty.

3. The Dissertation Board consists of all professors of the faculty of doctoral degrees and associate professors.

4. The Dissertation Board acts in accordance with the provision approved by the Academic Council by the Academic Council and grants the Doctor's Academic Degree in the areas of science that are defined by the Statute.

5. Rules of inviting a person with a doctoral degree in the Dissertation Board And the conditions are established by the relevant provision of the faculty.

1. The Quality Assurance Service shall be established in accordance with the provisions of the Department for the purpose of systematic evaluation of the quality and qualification of the academic personnel, as well as the academic and scientific research work on the faculty.

2. The main task of the faculty's quality assurance service is to support the provision of a high level of teaching quality through the use of modern methods of learning, teaching and evaluation and to prepare self-assessment for the accreditation process. 

3.     The quality assurance service of the faculty is authorized to cooperate with foreign countries and relevant services of the higher educational institution to establish transparent criteria of quality control and their assurance methodology.

4.     The head of the faculty's quality assurance service is elected by the faculty's council for the duration of the educational program.

5.     The faculty's quality assurance service is accountable to the faculty's council.

6.     The head of the quality assurance service of the faculty must be a professor with an academic degree in the relevant field, or an associate professor, or an assistant professor

1. The curriculum committee aims to discuss issues related to implementation of academic programs of the faculty.

2. The Committee shall examine the assessment assessments presented by the Quality Assurance Service in accordance with the relevant rules, procedures and established criteria, educational programs and curriculums, educational literature, syllabuses of training courses, etc. About, prepare relevant recommendations to the Faculty Board, and then to the University Academic Council.

3. The functions of the Committee on the Curriculum are:

A) Discuss educational programs prepared at faculty and prepare appropriate recommendation;

B)  Consideration of syllabuses and preparation of appropriate recommendation for the mandatory and elective courses of educational programs on the faculty and preparation of appropriate recommendations for the Faculty Board;

C) Discussion of the textbooks and preparation of recommendations on faculty for implementation of educational programs for faculty and university academic councils;

D) Prepare recommendations on the issues related to the academic and scientific-research process presented by the Faculty Dean or Faculty Study Structural Units.

 

1. The International School of Public Health is functioning at the Faculty of Public Health.

2.      The purpose and objectives of the International School of Public Health are:

A) Implementation of second cycle educational programs of higher education;

B) Preparation of competent staff in public health care.

3.     The Director of Public Health is headed by the Director, who is appointed and dismissed by the Rector;

4.     The Director of International School of Public Health is accountable to the Rector, Chancellor and Public Health Faculty Board;

5.     The head of International School of Public Health:

•Encourages uninterrupted course of academic and scientific activities in the school;

•represents the school in relations with third parties.

6.    International School of Public Health apparatus and support staff

a)    Rector appoints and dismisses the employees of the International School of Public Health;

b)   The employees of the International School of Public Health carry out the duties assigned by this regulation, the regulations of the International School of Public Health and the corresponding labor contract (N23/7; 16.05.2018)

1. The Georgian Language Center was created for the purpose of promoting the study of the Georgian language;

2. The goal of the Georgian Language Center is:

a. Teaching Georgian language and improving teaching for both Georgian and non-Georgian (foreign-language sector) students as well as state program "Georgian as Second Language" for students;

b. Creating an effective base for training and scientific activities.

3. The Georgian Language Center is headed by the Director of the Center, who is appointed and dismissed by the Rector of the University;

4. The head of the Center is accountable to the Rector, Chancellor and Public Health Board.

5. The head of the Georgian Language Center:

a. Provides the uninterrupted course of the learning process in the center;

b. Carries out the management of the property transferred to the function of the Center;

c. Planning and directing the organization's organizational activities;

6. Equipment and support staff of the Georgian Language Center

a) The rector appoints and dismisses the employees of the Georgian Language Center, upon the recommendation of the center's director;

b) Individual directions of the center's activity, which are not provided for by the university's staffing schedule, are carried out by a guest teacher, based on the relevant contract;

c) The employees of the center perform the functions assigned by this regulation, the regulation of the Georgian Language Center and the corresponding labor contract.

1. The Center of Foreign Languages was created in order to promote the study of foreign languages within the university;

2. The purpose of the Center for Foreign Languages is:

a) Providing teaching of foreign languages (Latin, English, German, French, Russian, etc.) in accordance with the curriculum of the university;

b) Taking into account the goals and objectives of the university, promotion of language learning within the university on the basis of the paid courses of intensive language teaching available at the center.

3. The foreign language center is headed by the director of the center, who is appointed and dismissed by the university Rector.

4. The director of the center is accountable to the rector, chancellor and the council of the faculty of public health.

5. Director of the Foreign Language Center:

a) Ensures the center's activities;

b) Management and protection of the property transferred for the center's operation;

c) Planning of the organizational activities of the center (organizational, material-technical and other measures) and to lead

6. The equipment and support staff of the foreign language center

a) The rector appoints and dismisses the center's employees on the recommendation of the center's director;

b) The number of staff of the center is determined by the staffing schedule of the university;

c) Individual areas of the center's activity are carried out by an invited person based on the relevant labor contract;

d) The employees of the center ensure the proper performance of the functions assigned by the internal regulations, this regulation, the regulations of the center and the relevant labor contract

1. A Preparatory center operates at the Faculty of Public Health.

2. The aim and objectives of the Preparatory center are:

a) Providing full-fledged knowledge to the person (entrant) in the relevant examination subjects defined by the Georgian legislation by the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia,

b) Preparation for unified national exams;

c) Ensuring adaptation of future students to university studies

d) Admission and training of citizens of foreign countries in the relevant subjects, in order to continue their studies at the university.

3. The preparatory center is headed by the center's director, who is appointed and dismissed by the university rector;

4. A person with a higher education and experience in pedagogical and organizational work can be appointed as director;

5. The director of the center is accountable to the rector, chancellor and the council of the faculty of public health;

6.  Director of the Preparation Center:

a) Ensures uninterrupted running of the educational process in the center;

b) Manages the property transferred for the center's operation; c) plans and directs the organizational activities of the center;

d) Is responsible for the targeted use of the budget of the center.

7. Preparation Center equipment and support staff 

a) The rector appoints and dismisses the employees of the preparatory center, on the recommendation of the center's director;

b) Individual directions of the center's activity, which are not provided for by the university's staffing schedule, are carried out by a guest teacher, based on the relevant contract;

c) The employees of the center carry out the duties assigned by this provision, the provision of the training center and the corresponding labor agreement.

1. Faculty academic staff consists of professors, associate professors and assistant professors. The academic council determines the margin of pedagogical load of the professor.

2  Holding an academic position may only be through an open competition, which must comply with the principles of transparency, equality and fair competition.

3.  An academic position can be held only through an open competition, which must comply with the principles of transparency, equality and fair competition.

4. The academic council of the university shall determine the rules of the competition.

5. The conditions and criteria for the selection of academic personnel by competition will be developed and approved by the academic council.

6. The rector signs individual labor contracts with the winning academic staff, taking into account the requirements of higher education and labor legislation.

7. The authority of the academic staff continues automatically according to the established procedure until the notification of the authority of the newly appointed academic staff.

8.  Academic staff is accountable for:

a)  To follow the internal law and code of ethics, norms of disciplinary responsibility;

b)  To fulfill the duties imposed by the labor contract;

c)   To submit a report on the performed works after the qualification improvement;

d)   To comply with the requirements established by the university statutes, the present regulations and the legislation;

9. The basis for dismissal of academic staff are determined by the TSSU statutes;

10.  Administrative positions of the faculty include: dean, deputy dean(s), head of faculty quality assurance service.

11.  A person who has reached the age of 65 cannot be elected or appointed to administrative positions of the faculty.

12. The teaching staff of the faculty includes guest teachers and laboratory assistants, with whom the rector signs an employment contract with the dean's proposal and the chancellor's approval. The number of teaching staff of the faculty is determined by the scope of educational, scientific and methodological work.

13. The auxiliary staff of the faculty includes other personnel necessary for the activity of the faculty provided for by the university staff list.

14. Separate directions of the faculty's activity, which are not provided for by the staff schedule of the university, are carried out by invited personnel based on the relevant employment contract.

15. Relations related to the incentives and disciplinary responsibility of the faculty staff are regulated based on the university charter, internal regulations and other normative requirements.

1. During the course of the study, the subjects provided for the program are used as weekly lectures, practical and laboratory studies.

2. The structure of the curriculum, the list of mandatory and elective subjects determines the Faculty Council and approves the Academic Council of the University by the established rule. Transparency of elective discipline / course selection is provided by access to information and freedom of choice - by the Dean of the faculty. The student has the opportunity to become familiar with the list and content of the selected items on the website and deacon. The student should make a written application on discipline selected by him in a decade after the start of the semester. The Dean’s office will provide students' groups in accordance with the elective disciplines / courses and conduct uninterrupted training processes.

3. The study process includes planning, organization and implementation of all types of training-methodological work. Basic documents for regulating the learning process at faculty are curriculum and curriculum.

4. Students' knowledge on faculty is evaluated in accordance with the applicable assessment system and curriculum (s) in the university. The student is obliged to pass all the exam in accordance with the curriculum of the curriculum and the faculty curriculum.

5. The faculty exams are conducted by the unified rule established by the university.

6. Rules for calculation, assessment, recurrence of educational programs by the credits shall be regulated by the Uniform Rules established by the University.

7. The conditions for suspending, terminating, and restoring student status are regulated by the university statutes and internal regulations. 

8. Student's mobility and restoration of student status from other higher education institutions or other faculties of the university shall be regulated by the applicable legislation of Georgia with the university statute and regulations.

9. After completing the faculty education program and compulsory credits, graduates are given the appropriate academic degree.

10. Academic Year on Faculty consists of two semesters: fall and Spring.

11. Calculation of educational programs, assessment of students' activities, and repeating the subject shall be regulated by the university statute and regulations.

12. Faculty provides objective assessment of student knowledge through relevant procedures;

13. Relationships related to the student's encouragement and disciplinary responsibilities are regulated by the University Charter, Internal Regulations and other Normative Requirements.

1. Levels of academic higher education are:

A) Bachelor - an educational program that includes no less than 240 credits.

B) Masters - Educational Program, which includes no less than 120 credits.

C) Doctorate - an educational program that includes at least 180 Credits.

2. The educational program encompasses at least 60 credits in one academic year in a higher education institution.

3. After completing each level of study, a diploma is issued with a standard appendix.

1. Acceptance in the Bachelor's Degree is based on the results of the Unified National Examinations.

2. The aim of the study in Bachelor's Degree is to prepare a wide range of disciplines with high level professional training, which prepares the person for work, taking into account the restrictions imposed by the legislation of Georgia and further studies in the master's degree.

1. Masters will be conducted on the basis of the results of the unified Master's Exams and are regulated by the Regulations on Public Health and Master's Degree.

2. The enrollment in the master's degree shall be enhanced according to the rankings accrued on the exams within the preliminary declared contingent.

3. Competition applicable in Master's degree includes: a) Evaluation of the submitted documentation; B) Examination in specialty and foreign language.

4. Information about the competition in the Faculty Graduate Studies will be posted on the TSMU website.

5.     An applicant enrolled as a result of passing the exams is considered a master's student.

6.     The duration of the master's degree is defined as at least 2 years.

1. Acceptance in doctoral studies is carried out by doctoral regulations. The necessary condition for doctoral studies is the existence of a scientific research program.

2. PhD program will be taken after preliminary examination.

3. Assessment of Doctoral Programs includes an expert examination conducted in the university.

4. The Doctoral Program and the Head (s), in agreement with the Faculty Board, approve the Academic Council of the TSMU.

5. The contest in PhD Competition includes:

A) Evaluation of the submitted documentation,

B) Examination in specialty and foreign language.

6. A candidate enrolled on the examination is considered as a PhD student.

7. Duration of PhD studies determined at least 3 years.

1. For the purposes of this Regulation, a student shall be entitled to a person who is enrolled in the Law of Georgia "On Higher Education" and the University Statute and is studying for a Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral Program in the Faculty.

2. The student has the right to:

A) Receive quality education and participate in scientific research;

B) Under the rules established by the University Charter and Internal Regulations, in equal conditions, use the university and faculty material-technical, library-information and other means;

C) Take comprehensive information on the educational programs existing in the university and request the syllabus of training courses;

D) To request a fair assessment of the knowledge and to challenge the undesirable examination assessment by the established rule;

E) Periodically assess the work of academic personnel;

F) On the basis of universal, direct and equal elections, to elect a representative by secret ballot and to be elected to the representative bodies of the student self-government, faculty and university management, in accordance with the university's charter

G) Free to establish and / or join student organizations in accordance with their interests;

H) Free to express one's opinion;

I) Carry out the university statutes, internal regulations and legislation other powers granted to him.

3. Student is obliged to:

A) Follow the University Regulations;

B) To pay the semester’s tuition fee within the deadlines established for semester registration;

C)     Within one month to inform the dean's office of the relevant faculty about changes in the specified information;

D)     To follow the code of ethics;

E)     Take care of property belonging to the university;

F)      Strictly comply with the requirements established by the legislation, the university's statutes and internal regulations and the agreement signed with it:

v.a) to pay the tuition fee set by the university in accordance with the rules and deadlines established by the university or to cover the difference between the state grant and the university tuition fee;

v.b) to pay, in accordance with the established procedure, the prescribed tuition fee for each subject to be repeated

1. Students' self-governance is based on universal, equal and direct elections.

2. Student self-governance at the Faculty is the foundation for the creation and operation of the general university student self-government, which aims at facilitating student mobility and activity.

3. Student self-governance in accordance with its provisions:

A) Ensure the protection of students' rights;

B) Elects the representatives of the student self-government in the faculty council;

C) Has the right to develop recommendations and proposals related to further refinement and improvement of the educational process and submit them to the Faculty Council;

D) Fulfill other rights defined by the Student Self-Government Statute;

E) Faculty administration does not interfere in student self-government activities.

The faculty's statutes are revoked, changes and additions made to it by the representative council