(1) The meetings of 1(the Council) shall be convened, held and conducted in such manner as may be prescribed by rules.
1(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 1(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) 1(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 is it may notify on the notice-board at the office of 1(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 meetings, and may be disposed of at such meeting or any subsequent adjournment thereof, whether there be a quorum present or not.
