State Act

The Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act, 1961.

9. Meetings of 10[the Council.]— (1) The meetings of 11[the Council] shall be convened, held and conducted in such manner as may be prescribed by rules. 12[(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 13[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) 14[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 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 meeting, and may be disposed of at such meeting or any subsequent adjournment thereof, whether there be a quorum present or not.