Elections in place of persona
unseated on petition.
Language.
Minutes.
Standing orders.
44. Where on an election petition the election of any person has been declared void and no other person has been declared elected in his place, a new election shall be held to supply the vacancy in the same manner as a vacancy declared under section 14.
PART VIII,
Meetings, Proceedings and Duties of the Council,
45. The proceedings of the Council shall be conducted in the English language.
46. (1) The secretary shall keep minutes of the proceedings of the Council and of committees of the whole Council and shall, as soon as possible after each meeting, send a copy of the draft minutes thereof to each member.
(2) The minutes of the proceedings of the Council shall record the names of the members attending and all decisions of the Council.
(3) The Chairman shall obtain the confirmation of the Council that the minutes are a true record and shall sign the minutes accordingly. Any minutes purporting to be so signed shall be received in evidence without further proof.
(4) Until the contrary is proved, a meeting of the Council or of a committee thereof, in respect of the proceedings whereof a minute has been so signed shall be deemed to bave been duly convened and held, and all the members present at the meeting shall be deemed to have been duly qualified, and where the pro- ceedings are proceedings of a committee, the committee shall be deemed to have been duly constituted and to have had power to deal with the matters referred to in the minutes.
47. The Council may make standing orders for regulating its procedure and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing such standing orders may make such provision for the preservation of order at meetings as the Council deem
may necessary.
48. (1) The Council shall meet once in every month and Meetings, oftener if need be, and may adjourn from time to time. The Chairman may at any time, and shall, on a requisition signed by three members of the Council, within seven days of receiving such requisition Summon a meeting of the Council,
(2) Notice of a meeting shall be given by the secretary to each member of the Council at least two clear days before the day of the meeting, except in case of emergency when as long a notice as possible shall be given. Accidental omission to supply such notice to any member of the Council shall not affect the validity of a meeting.
49.
All questions coming or arising before a meeting of Acts of the
Council. the Council shall be decided by a majority of the members of the Council present and voting thereon:
Provided that this section shall not be deemed to limit the discretion of the Council or of any committee thereof to determine any matter by the circulation of papers.
60. At a meeting of the Council the Chairman, if present, Chairman, shall preside. If the Chairman is absent from a meeting of the Council the Vice-Chairman shall preside. If both the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman are absent from a meeting of the Council the members present shall appoint a temporary chairman to preside.
51. (0) At any meeting of the Council four members shall Quorum, be a quorum.
(2) The quorum for any committee of the Council shall be laid down in standing orders of the Council,
62. At any meeting of the Council or of a committee of Casting the whole Council or of a committee of the Council the Chairman vote of
Chairman, or the chairman of a committee, as the case may be, shall have an original vote and also, if the votes be equal, a casting vote.
63. The proceedings of the Council or of a committee thereof Validity shall not be invalidated by any vacancy among their number, or by any defect in the election or qualification of any member Council. thereof.
of acts of the