Grant of leave absence to President or Vice-President

Grant of leave absence to President or Vice-President.-

1. (1) The Council may from time to time, grant such leave of absence to the President or a Vice-President as it may deem fit.
2. (2) If a President or Vice-President remains absent from office owing to illness or any other cause for the period exceeding three months without the leave of the Council, he shall cease to be a President or Vice-President, as the case may be, and his office shall become vacant.
3. (3) During the absence on leave of the President, the Vice-President and in the like event in the case of a Vice-President, such one of the elected Councillors as may be elected by them to act as Vice-President, shall discharge the functions of the President or the Vice-President, as the case may be.
4. (4) The Vice-President or the elected Councillor shall, during, and in respect of the period in which he is acting as, or discharging the functions of President or Vice-President, as the case may be, exercise the powers conferred and perform the duties imposed on a President or Vice-President by or under this Act or by any other enactment for the time being in force.