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| (a) No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum is present. Seven members present in person shall be a quorum for all purposes. |
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| (b) If within half an hour from the time appointed for a meeting, a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened on the requisition of members, shall be dissolved. In any other case it-shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next following week, at the same time and place, or to such other day and at such other time and place as the Council may determine, and if at such adjourned meeting a quorum is not present within fifteen minutes from the time appointed for holding the meeting, the members present shall be deemed to be a quorum. |
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| (c) The President shall preside as chairman at any general meeting; in the absence of the President, the Vice-President shall preside; but if at any meeting neither of them be present within fifteen minutes of the time fixed for the commencement of the meeting and be willing to act, and all the members of the Council present decline to take the chair, the members present shall choose one of their number to be the chairman. |
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| (d) At any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show of hands. |
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| (e) A declaration by the chairman that a resolution has been carried or carried unanimously, or by a particular majority, or lost, or not carried by a particular majority, and an entry to that effect in the Minute Book, shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded for or against such resolution. |
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| (f) In the case of an equality of votes, the chairman of the meeting shall have a casting vote, in addition to his own vote as a member. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts