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Meetings of council: (1) The meetings of the Council shall be convened, held and conducted in such manner as may be prescribed. (2) The President, when presenf shall preside at every meeting of the Council. Ifat any6 meetingthe President is absent, The Vice-President, and absence or both, some other member elected by the members present from amongst themselves, shall preside at suchmeeting. AU issues at ameetingofthe Council shall be decided by amajority members present andvoting The presiding authority at ameeting shall have and exercise a second or casting vote, in case of an equality of votes. Eight members (including the President andvice-president) shall form a quorum. When a quorum is required but notpresent, the presiding authority shall, after waiting for not less than thuQ minutes for such quorum, adjourn the meeting to such hour or some future day as it may no@ on the notify board at the office of the Council; and the business whichwould have been brought before the original meeting had there been a quorum thereat, shall be brought before the adjoumedmeeting, and may be disposed of at such meeting or any subsequent adjournment thereof, whether there by a quorum present, or not. :ceding of meetings and validity of acts: The proceedings of every meeting of the Council, shall be treated as confidential, and no person, shall without the previous resolution of the Council, disclose any portion thereof. No disqualification or defect inthe election or nomination or any person as a member, or as the President or as the Vice-President, or as a presiding authonty of a meeting shall be itself be deemed to vitiate any act or proceedings of the Council in which such act or proceedings, were entitled to vote. During any vacancy inthe Council, the continuing members may act, as ifno vacancy had occurred. Any act done by the Council shall not be questioned on the ground merely of the existence of any vacancy in or any defect in the constitution of the Council.