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Thanks Johannes_B!
Applying your snippet to the abstract, acknowledgements and authorship declaration fixed my issue!
I'd humbly suggest this fix should be incorporated into the next version of the template.

Happy 2016!

The version of the cls file is 1.2, and the version of the template is 2.2. Sorry I wasn't clear. I am using the latest version.

Using Foxit Reader, the links to the declaration of authorship, to the abstract, and
to the acknowledgements pages seem to point to the beginning of the text of each ...

All roman-numeraled entries in the contents page link to a view that's a "too low". The first visible row of after using the link is the beginning of the entry's text, instead of its headline. I'm using version 1.2 of the masters-doctoral-thesis template.

This is still an improvement over version 1 ...