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| (1) The Council may at any general meeting and by the votes of not less than two-thirds of the corporate members present and voting make rules in respect of any matter required by this Act to be prescribed or in respect of which rules are authorized or required by this Act to be made. Such rules when made may at a like meeting and in like manner be altered, added to amended or rescinded. |
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| (2) Without prejudice to the generally of the powers conferred by the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, the Council may make rules not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act and any other written law, in respect of
| | (a) the admission, resignation and expulsion of members; the qualifications and disqualifications for membership; the form and issue of certificates of membership; the maintenance of a register of members; the waiver or reduction and the effect of non-payment of membership fees and the rights, privileges and duties of members; | | |
| | (b) the term of office of the Council, eligibility for and the mode of election or appointment thereto, the resignation or vacation of office and the filling of casual vacancies of members thereof, the delegation of the powers and functions of the Council and the appointment of Committees and Boards of the Corporation the Annual Report of the Council; | | |
| | (c) the summoning and holding of meetings of the Council, the Annual General Meeting, other General Meetings and Special General Meetings of the members of the Corporation, notice and agenda of such meetings, the quorum thereof and the conduct of business thereof; | | |
| | (d) the management of the property of the Corporation and the custody of its funds; | | |
| | (e) the formulation of a Code of Professional Conduct; | | |
| | (f) the Procedure of disciplinary inquiries, including the appointment of disciplinary Committees and the provision of legal assistance thereto form of complaints, the framing of charges, the furnishing of explanations in reply, the issue of notices, the summoning of any person to give evidence, the production of documents, the rights of parties to legal representations, the rules of evidence applicable thereto, the maintenance of the record of the proceedings thereat, and the form and content of the reports of Disciplinary Committees. | | |
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| (3) the members of the Corporation shall be subject to the rules for the time being of the Corporation. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts