section 16
Presidency at meetings of Council and procedure thereto.
The Kerala State Medical Practitioners Act, 2021Health202150 sections4 chapters
Chapter 2 ESTABLISHMENT OF COUNCILS
Statutory text
- (1) Every meeting of a Council shall be presided over by the President, in his absence by the Vice-President and in the absence the President and the Vice-President, by a member chosen by the meeting to preside for the occasion.
- (2) The President shall preserve order and shall decide all points of order at or in connection with meetings. After the explanation of the member on the point of order, the President can take the decision and the said decision shall be final.
- (3) The Vice-President or the member presiding for the occasion shall, for that meeting and during the period in which he presides over it, have all the powers of the President.
- (4) The matters which are to be decided by voting in a meeting of a Council shall be decided by the votes of the majority of the members present and voting at the meeting. Two third of the members will form a quorum. If within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting there is no quorum, the meeting may stand adjourned to the same day in the following week at the same time and place, unless a place, date and time are decided otherwise and if at the adjourned meeting there is no quorum within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting, the members present shall form a quorum.
- (5) At every meeting of a Council, the President shall, in addition to his vote as a member of the Council, have a second or casting vote in case of votes being equal.
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