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Omitted by Assam Act No. II of 2012. 20 (viii) to fix, subject to any conditions accepted by the General Council, the time, mode and conditions of competition for Fellowships, Scholarships and other prizes and to recommend for award the same; (ix) to make recommendations to the Executive Council in regard to the appointment of examiners and if necessary their removal and fixation of their fees, emoluments and travelling and other expenses; (x) to recommend arrangements for the conduct of examinations and the dates for holding them; (xi) to declare or review the result of the various examinations or to appoint committees or officers to do so, and to make recommendations regarding the conferment or grant of degrees, honours, diplomas, licenses, titles and marks of honour; (xii) to recommend stipends, scholarships, medals and prizes and to make other awards in accordance with the Regulations and such other conditions as may be attached to the awards; (xiii) to approve or revise lists of prescribed or recommended text books and to publish the same and syllabus at the prescribed courses of study; (xiv) to approve such forms and registers as are, from time to time, required by the Regulations; and (xv) to perform, in relation to academic matters, all such duties and to do all such acts as may be necessary for the proper carrying out of the provisions of this Act and the Regulations made there under. (2) (i) The Academic Council shall meet as often as may be necessary, but not less than two times during an academic year; (ii) one half of the existing members of the Academic Council shall form the quorum for a meeting of the Academic Council; (iii) in case of difference of opinion among the members, the opinion of the majority shall prevail; 21 (iv) each member of the Academic Council, including the Chairman of the Academic Council, have one vote and if there be an equality of votes on any question to be determined by the Academic Council, the Chairman of the Academic Council, or as the case may be, the member presiding over the meetings, shall in addition, have a casting vote; (v) every meeting of the Academic Council shall be presided over by the 1[Vice-chancellor] of 2[Law University] and in his absence by a member chosen in the meeting to preside on the occasion; (vi) if urgent action by the Academic Council becomes necessary, the Chairman of the Academic Council may permit the business to be transacted by circulation of papers to the members of the Academic Council. The action proposed to be taken shall not be taken unless agreed to, by a majority of the members of the Academic Council. The action so taken shall forthwith be intimated to all the members of the Academic Council. The papers shall be placed before the next meeting of the Academic Council for confirmation. Finance Committee.