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| (1) The Council may make regulations for the purpose of carrying out or giving effect to the principles and provisions of this Law, and in respect of any matter required by this Law to be prescribed, or in respect of which regulations are authorized or required by this Law to be made, and may from time to time amend, add to. replace or repeal any such regulation. |
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| (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by the provisions of the preceding subsection, the Council may make regulations in respect of-
| | (i) 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, the delegation of the powers and functions of the Council and the appointment of Committees and Boards, the Annual Report of the Council, and the adoption and use of the Common Seal; | | |
| | (ii) the rights, powers, functions and duties of the officers of the Council; | | |
| | (iii) 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 Institute, the times, places, notice and agenda of such meetings, the quorum thereof and the conduct of business thereat; | | |
| | (iv) the management of the property of the Institute and the custody of its funds; | | |
| | (v) the formulation of a Code of Professional Conduct; | | |
| | (vi) the procedure of disciplinary inquiries, including the form of complaints, the appointment of Disciplinary Committees and the provision of legal assistance thereto, the framing of charges, the furnishing of explanations in reply, the issue of notices, 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) Such regulations, or the amendment, addition, replacement or repeal thereof or thereto, shall not be valid, unless approved at a general meeting of the members of the Institute by a two-thirds majority of the corporate members present and voting, held in accordance with the provisions of the regulations for the time being in force, and shall come into operation on the date of their publication in the Gazette. |
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| (4) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding provisions of this section, the regulations contained in the Schedule hereto shall be, and shall be deemed for all purposes to be, the regulations of the Institute, and may be amended, added to, replaced or repealed as if they were regulations made under and in accordance with the preceding provisions of this section. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts