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| (1) The meetings of the Council shall be held once at least in every three months. |
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| (2) The quorum for any meeting of the Council shall be ten members of the Council. |
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| (3) The President of the Council or in his absence the Vice-President, or in the case of the absence of both, a member chosen by the members present shall preside at a meeting of the Council. |
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| (4) The meetings of the Council shall be convened by the President of his own motion or upon a requisition in writing made in that behalf by not less than five members of the Council. |
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| (5} Seven clear days notice in writing shall be given to the members of every meeting of the Council, the time and place of such meeting and the business to be brought up before it being specified in such notice which shall be sent through the post under registered cover to each member addressed to the last known place of residence of such member. |
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| (6) The person presiding for the time being at any meeting of the Council may with the consent of the majority of members present adjourn that meeting. |
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| (7) Subject to the provisions of subsection (8) any question which arises at any meeting of the Council shall be decided by a majority of the members present and in the case of an equality of Votes, the member presiding at the meeting shall have a second or Tasting vote. |
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| (8) A member of the Institute shall not be disenrolled or suspended except upon a resolution passed at a meeting of the Council by not less than two-thirds of the total number of members of the Council in office. |
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| (9) The Council shall cause minutes to be made of the proceedings of every meeting of the Council in books kept for that purpose and the minutes of such proceedings shall be signed by the member presiding at the next succeeding meeting, and the minutes so signed shall be prima facie evidence of the matters set out in such minutes. |
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| (10) No act or proceeding of the Council shall be invalid by reason only of the existence of any vacancy among the members of the Council or any defect in the appointment of a member thereof. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts