Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The Chairman may resign his seat by giving notice thereto in writing to the .Government and he shall be deemed to have vacated his seat from the .date of aceeptance of his resignation / by the Government. (2) A member of the Council, other than an Ex-Officio / memb~r may resign his ·seat by giving notice thereof in writing to the Chairman, and such + 928 TH~ ASSAM GA~ETTE. EXTI~AO-RDINAR~ APRIL 18, 198.4 . member shall be deemed to have vacated his seat from the date of acceptance of his- resignation by the Chairman. (3) The Government may, by notification, remove any nomina~ed or co-opted member who· remains absent from three consecutive meetings of the CQuncil without the leave of the Council. (4) In the event of a casual vacancy oc- ·curred by resignation, removal, death or disqualification of a member, such vacancy shall be filled by nomination or co-option, as the case may be in the manner provided in Section 5: (5) Any person nominated or co-opted to fill a casual vacancy shall hold office for the - unexpired portion of the term of office of the member in whose 'place he is nominated or co-opted. Meeting of 1 O (i) tht Council. · Ordinary Meetings-The Council shall meet not less than thrice a year, but four months shall not intervene between two successive meetings. (ii) Special Meetings-The Chairman, may, at any time, and shall upon requisi-· tion made by not less than one:-third of the members of the Council othe·r than the ex-officio members and on a date not 'more than twenty-one days of the receipt of such requisition, call a . special meeting of the Councit (a) Twenty-one days' notice shall be given for ordinary me~tings and ten days' notice for special meetings of the Council. . '!ID,; A§SAI,\1 GAZETT,E,; EXTRAORDINARY, ~~RJL · 18.198-4 929 Quori.lID : Proceedu1gs not i nvaJi. dated by rca»on of vacdcits. Ofliceri of the c u.uc:il. -11. {i) Nine members of the Council shall ·form a quorum for a meeting of the .Council ' (ii) Subject to the prov1s10ns contained in sub-clause (i) np act OF proceedings of the Council shall ·be invalid merely by reason of the existence of any vacancy among the members of the Council.