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(1) (a) No business shall be transacted at a meeting of the Council unless a quorum of five members be present. (b) When a quorum is not formed in a meeting, the President shall, after waiting for not less than twenty minutes for such quorum, adjourn the meeting to such hour on the same day or to a future day as he may notify on the notice board at the office of the Council, and the business which would have been brought before the Original meeting had there been a quorum, shall be brought before the adjourned meeting, and may be disposed of at such meeting or at any subsequent adjournment meeting,whether there be a quorum present or not. (2) The President shall preside over all the meetings of the Council. In absence of the President, the Vice-president shall preside over the meeting. In absence of both the President and the Vice-President, some other member to be chosen from amongst the members will preside over the meeting. (3) Save as otherwise provided in clause (b) of sub- section (1) of Section 25, all questions arising at a meeting shall be decided by the votes of the majority of the members present and voting, or, in the case of an equality of votes by the casting vote of the President of the meeting. (4) No act or proceeding of the Council shall be deemed to be invalid merely by reason of a vacancy in the Council or of a defect in the election or nomination of a person acting as a member of the Council, 7 (5) Subject to the provisions of this Act, and of any rules made thereunder by the State Government, the Council may make regulations in respect of- (a) the time and place at which such meeting shall be held; (b) the issue of notices convening such meetings; and (c) the conduct of business thereat. (6) Until such time as the regulations referred to in subsection (5) have come into operation, it shall be lawful for the President to summon, by letter addressed to each member, a meeting of the Council at such time and place as to him shall seem expedient. (7) (a) The proceedings of the discussion of every meeting of the Council shall be treated as confidential and no person shall, without the previous permission of the Council, disclose any portion thereof: Provided that nothing in this Section shall be deemed to prohibit any person from disclosing or publishing the text of any resolution adopted by the Council, unless the Council directs such resolution also to be treated as confidential. (b) No disqualification of, or defect in the election, nomination or appointment of, any person as member or as a presiding authority of a meeting, shall of itself be deemed to vitiate any act or proceeding of the Council, in which such person has taken part, or during any vacancy in the Council, the continuing members may act, as if no vacancy had occurred, unless the number of vacancies exceeds two in number. Payment of expenses to members.