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| (1) The Vice-Chairman of a Village Council shall hold office for a period of one year from the date of his election to that office, unless he resigns the office earlier or ceases for any cause to be or to be qualified to be a member of the Council. A Vice-Chairman vacating his office by effluxion of time shall be eligible for re-election. |
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| (2) The Vice-Chairman shall, whenever he is present, preside over every meeting of the Council from which the Chairman is absent, and may exercise any power or perform any duty of the Chairman which the Chairman may authorize him in writing to exercise or perform in his behalf, or which the Assistant Commissioner may in writing direct the Vice-Chairman to exercise or perform, whenever the office of Chairman is vacant, or whenever the Chairman is absent from duty owing to illness or other unavoidable cause and has not given such written authorization to the Vice-Chairman. |
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| (3) The Vice-Chairman may at any time, without vacating his office as a member, resign the office of Vice-Chairman by a written communication addressed to the Assistant Commissioner through the Chairman. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts