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9. Meetings of 1 [the Council.]- ( 1 ) The meetings of 2 [the Council] shall be convened, held and conducted in such manner as may be prescribed by rules. 3 [( 2 ) Save as otherwise provided in sub-section ( 2 ) of section 4, the President when present, shall preside at every meeting of the Council. If at any meeting the President is absent, then the Vice-President, and in the absence of both, some other member elected by the members present, from amongst themselves, shall preside at such meeting.] ( 3 ) All questions at a meeting of 4 [the Council], shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting at the meeting. ( 4 ) The presiding authority at a meeting shall have and exercise a second or a casting vote, in case of an equality of votes. ( 5 ) 5 [Eight members of the Council including the President and Vice-President] shall form a quorum. When a quorum is required but not present, the presiding authority shall adjourn the meeting to such hour on some future day as it may notify on the notice-board at the office of 6 [the Council;] and the business which would have been brought before the original meeting, had there been a quorum thereat, shall be brought before the adjourned meeting, and may be disposed of at such meeting or any subsequent adjournment thereof, whether there be a quorum present or not.