( 1) The quorum for a meeting of the Gram Panchayat shall be one-third of the total number of members. If at the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, the presiding authority shall wait for thirty minutes, and if within such period there is no quorum' the presiding authority shall adjourn the meeting to such time on the following day or such future day as he may fix. He shall similarly after waiting for thirty minutes adjourn the meeting if at any time after it has began, attention is drawn to the want of a quorum. A notice of the meeting so fixed shall be pasted in the office of the Gram Panchayat.The business which could not be considered at the meeting so postponed for want of quorum, shall be brought before and disposed of at the meeting so fixed or at any subsequent adjourned meeting at which there is a quorum.
(2) Save as otherwise provided by or under this Act, at every meeting of Gram Panchayat, the Chairperson or in the absence of him, the members present shall choose one from amongst themselves to preside for the occasion.
(3) All questions shall, unless otherwise specifically provided, be decided by a majority of votes of the members present and voting. The Chairperson or person presiding, as the case may be, unless he refrains from voting shall give his vote before declaring the number of votes for and against a question and in the case of equality of votes he may give his casting vote.
(4) No member of a Gram Panchayat shall vote on, or take part in the discussion of, any question coming up for consideration at a meeting of a Gram Panchayat, if the question is one in which, apart from its general application to the public, he has any pecuniary interest, and if the person presiding has such an interest, he shall not preside over the meeting when such question comes up for consideration.
(5) If the person presiding is believed by any member present at the meeting to have any such pecuniary interest in any matter under discussion, and if a motion to that effect be carried, he shall not preside at the meeting during such discussion or vote on or take part in it. Any member of the Gram Panchayat may be chosen to preside at the meeting during the continuance of such discussion.
Modification or cancellation of resolution.
26. No resolution of a Gram Panchayat shall be modified or cancelled within six months after the passing thereof, except by a resolution passed by not less than one-half of the total number of members at an ordinary or special meeting, notice whereof shall have been given fulfilling the requirement of subsection
(3) of section 24 setting forth fully the resolution which it is proposed to modify or cancel at such meeting and the motion or proposition for the modification or cancellation of such resolution.
Minutes 2 7. (1) Minutes shall be kept of the names of the members and of the officers, if any present, and of the proceedings at each meeting of the Gram Panchayat and if any member present at the meeting so desires, of the name of the members voting respectively for or against any resolution, in a book to be provided for the purpose and after they are read over and agreed to shall be signed by the Chairperson or person presiding at such meeting, and shall at all reasonable times be open 'to inspection by any member of the Gram Panchayat.
Any person may inspect the copy of the minutes of the meeting. The minutes book shall always be kept in the office of the Gram Panchayat and shall be in the custody of the Chairperson of the Gram Panchayat.
(2) A copy of every resolution passed by the Gram Panchayat shall within ten days from the date of meeting, be forwarded by the Chairperson to the 2[Member Secretary of Zila Parishad ] 2[substituted of word Anchal Samity by Act 6 of 2018.s.S(w.e.f. 21/4/2018)] Interpellations and resolutions.