Cessation of membership

A member of the Council shall be deemed to have vacated his seat-

1. (a) if he submits his resignation in writing to the president of the Council ;
2. (b) if he has, in the opinion of the Council without sufficient excuse, been absent from three consecutive meetings of the Council ;
3. (c) if he has been absent out of India for more than one year continuously ;
4. (d) if in the case of a member under clause (c),
5. (d) or
6. (e) of sub-section

1. (2) of section 3, he ceases to be a registered nurse, a registered health visitor or a registered midwife, as the case may be ;
   • (e) if he refuses to act or becomes, in the opinion of the Council, incapable of acting, or has been declared a bankrupt or an insolvent or has been convicted of any such offence or subjected by a criminal court to any such order as implies, in the opinion of the Council, a defect of character, which unfits him to be a member.