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(1) The Chief Executive Coundlor or the Executive Councilors or any one of them or all of them may be removed from office by a resolution l;arried by a majority of the total number of the elected members at a special · meeting of the General Council {;ailed for the purpose upon a requisition made in writing by not less than one third of the members of the General Council. (2) The Government, after giving an opportunity to an elected member of the General < :ouncil to show cause against the action proposed to be taken against him and after giving a reasonable opportunity of being heard, may by order, remove him from the oflice, if he - (a) after his election, is convicted by a criminal court of an offence involving moral turpitude punishable with imprisonment for any period exceeding six months, or (b) incurs any of the disqualification's mentioned in section 54 after his election as member of the General Council, or ( c) is absent from three consecutive meetings of the General Council. (3) Any member of the General Council who is removed from the office under sub-section (2) above, may within thirty days from the date of the order, appeal to such Judicial Authority as the Government may prescribe and the authority so prescribed after admitting an appeal may, after complying with the normal and fundamental principles of judicial proceedings, pass such order or orders either confirming < ir modifying or setting aside the order appealed against and pending the final disposal of the appeal inay pass such other interlocutory order or orders including stay of operation of the order appealed against. ( 4) The order, passed, by the Judicial Authority referred to in sub-section(3) above, on such appeal shall be final. 10.(l)The Chief Executive Councilor and the Executive Councilors shall be whole time functionaries and shall be naid out of the General Council Fund such salaries and 1566 THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MAY 17, 2005 Filling up of Vacancies. Powers, functions and duties of the Chief Executive Councilor Meeting of the General Council. paid out of the General Council Fund such salaries and allowances as may be prescribed. (2) The other term and conditions of service of the Chief Executive Councilor and the Executive Councilors shall be such as may be prest;ribed.