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Election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman.- (1) Subject to the provisions of sub- sections (2) and (3), every market committee shall choose two members representing the agriculturists' constituencies of the market committee to be respectively the Chairman and Vice- Chairman thereof and so often as the office of the Chairman or the Vice Chairman becomes vacant by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, the market committee shall choose another member to be the Chairman or the Vice-Chairman as the case may be, in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules. 1[(2) 2[Within fifteen days from the date of]2 the constitution of a market committee under section 11or on its reconstitution, a meeting thereof shall be called by the prescribed officer who shall himself preside over the meeting but shall have no right to vote. At such meeting a member representing an agriculturists' constituency shall first be elected as the Chairman and thereafter another member representing another agriculturists' constituency shall be elected as Vice-Chairman in the manner hereinafter provided. (2A) At the meeting,- (a) candidates for the office of the Chairman 1[or as the case may be, the Vice- Chairman]1 shall be proposed by one member and seconded by another. The names of all members proposed and seconded shall be read out by the Presiding Officer;