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(1) The Quorum for a meeting of the Gaon Panchayat shall Quorum and u e third of the total number of members. Procedure. v w (2) If at the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, the presiding authority shall wait for fhrity minutes, and if within such period there is no quorum, the presiding authority shall adjourn the meeting to such time on the following day or such future date as he may fix but not beyond fifteen days trom the date of the adjourned meeting. However, the adjourned meeting shall require no quorum. (3) The business which could not be considered at the meeting so adjourned for want of quorum, shall be brought before and dis posed of at the meeting so fixed. THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MAY 6, 1994 6«7 (4) Save as otherwise provided by or unde® this Act, at every nwetiag of Gaon Panchayat, the President or in his absence the Vice-President shall preside. (5) The voting, in any meeting of Gaon Panchayat, if required, shall be by raising of bands, except in the meeting where no-confide nce motion is discussed where the matter will be decided by secret ballot. « (6) All questions shall, unless otherwise specifically provided, be decid rd by a majority of votes of the members present. The Presi- dent/Vice-Presiden* presiding, as the case rray be, unless he refrains from voting, shall give bis vote before declaring ths number of votes for aad against a question and in the case of equality of votes, he may • give big casting vote. (7) No member of a Gaon Panehavat shall vote on, or take part in the discussion of, any question coming up fcr Goasideratton at a meeting of Gaon Panchayat, if the question is oee in which apart from its general application to the public, he hes any pecuniary in terest, and if the person pr-tsidir-g ^as such an interest, he shall net pieside over the msetlng when such question c«»es np for considera tion. (8) If the person presi ins is believed by any member present at the meeting to have any sucu pecuniary in’er-st in any matter under discussion, and it a motion to that effect b< tarried, he shall not preside at the meeting during such disetssien or vote on or take pari in it. Any member cf the Geon Parchsyai n ay be chosen to pre side at the meeting during its continuance of such discussion. Functions of lg. Subject to such conditions as may be specified by the Govern- chavat P a”' m e n t ^r o m time to time, ths G-ton Panchayat shall peiform the functions specified below :—