Procedure at meetings of Council

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(1) The President shall preside at every meeting of the Council. In the absence of the President, the members present shall elect one from amongst themselves to preside.
(2) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, all questions at a meeting of the Council shall be decided by votes of the majority of the members present at the meeting. Five members shall form a quorum. Where a quorum is not present within thirty minutes of the time fixed for a meeting, the presiding authority shall adjourn the meeting to such hour on some future day as it may notify on the notice board at the office of the Council; and the business which would have been brought before the original meeting had there been a quorum thereat shall be brought before the adjourned meeting, and may be disposed of at such meeting or any subsequent adjournment thereof, whether there is a quorum present or not.
(3) At every meeting of the Council, the President for the time being or any member presiding shall, in addition to his vote as a member of the Council, have a second or casting vote in case of an equality of votes.
(4) No act or proceeding of the Council shall be deemed to be invalid merely by reason of any vacancy in, or defect in the constitution of, the Council or absence of any member on account of leave or otherwise.

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