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| (1) An elected or nominated member of a Board or sub-committee established or constituted for a school may resign his office at any time by a letter addressed to the Principal or the Senior Deputy Principal of that school. |
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| (2) If an elected or nominated member of a Board or sub-committee established or constituted for a school becomes subject to any of the disqualifications set out in section 4 or is guilty of conduct detrimental to the welfare of the school, the teachers, parents and past pupils of such school may remove such member from office by a resolution passed at a meeting of the teachers, parents and past pupils of such school summoned for the purpose by the Principal, at the request of at least ten teachers, parents and past pupils, in the aggregate- |
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| (3) An elected or nominated member of a Board or sub committee established or constituted for a school, who on the thirty-first day of December in any year has failed to attend at least one-half of the number of meetings held by that Board or sub-committee, as the case may be, during the period of twelve months immediately preceding that date or during such part of the period of twelve months, immediately preceding that date, as he was a member of such Board or sub-committee, as the case may be, shall unless he was absent from any such meeting on the ground of ill health or with the leave of such Board or sub-committee first obtained, be deemed to have vacated his office as member of such Board or sub-committee, as the case may be, with effect from the aforesaid thirty-first day of December of that year. |
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| (4) An elected or nominated member of a Board or sub committee established or constituted for a school, elected or nominated by virtue of his being a teacher of the school, shall vacate office as a member of such Board or sub committee, as the case may be, upon his ceasing to be a teacher of such school. |
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| (5) An elected or nominated member of a Board or sub committee established or constituted for a school, elected or nominated by virtue of his being a parent or guardian of a pupil of that school shall vacate office as a member of such Board or sub-committee, as the case may be, upon his child or ward or the last of his children or wards ceasing to be pupils of such school. |
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| (6) In the event of the vacation of office of an elected or nominated member of a Board or sub-committee established or constituted for a school by reason of death, removal from office or other cause, another person may be nominated by the Board having regard to the provisions of section 3, or section 9, as the case may be, to act in place of that member. Any person nominated in place of a member vacating office, shall hold office during the unexpired part of the term of office of the member whom he succeeds, |
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| (7) If any elected or nominated member of a Board or sub-committee established or constituted for a school is temporarily unable to discharge the functions of his office during any period due to ill health or other infirmity or absence from Sri Lanka, another member may be nominated by the Board, having regard to the provisions of section 3 or section 9, as the case may be, to act in his place during such period. |
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| (8) Subject to the preceding provisions of this section, the term of office of an elected or nominated member of a Board or sub-committee established or constituted for a school shall be three years, and such member shall be eligible for re-election or re-nomination, as the case may be. |
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| (9) No act or decision or proceeding of a Board or subcommittee established or constituted for a school shall be deemed to be invalid by reason only of the existence of a vacancy among its members or any defect in the election or nomination of a member thereof. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts