(1) 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:
Provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit any person from disclosing or publishing the text of any resolution adopted by the Council, unless the Council directs such resolution also to be treated as confidential.
(2) No disqualification or defect in the election or nomination of any person as a member, or as the President or as the Vice-President, or as a presiding authority of a meeting shall by itself be deemed to vitiate any act or proceedings of the Council in which such person has taken part, if the majority of persons who are parties to such act or proceedings, were entitled to vote
(3) During any vacancy in the Coundl, the continuing members may act, as if no vacancy had occurred.
(4) 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.
10. Powers, duties and functions of the CounciL—Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by or under the provisions of this Act, the powers, duties and functions of the Council shall be—
(n) to maintain the live register and to provide for the registration of medical practitioners;
(b) to hear and decide appeals against any decision of the Registrar;
(0) to prescribe a code of ethics for regulating the professional conduct of practitioners;
(d) to reprimand a practitioner, or to suspend or remove his name from the register, or to take such other disciplinary action against him as may, in the opinion of the Council be necessary or expedient;
(e) to exercise such other powers, perform such other duties and discharge such other functions, as are laid down in this Act, or as may be prescribed; .
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(f) to receive complaints from public (including patients and their relatives) against misconduct or negligence by a medical practitioner, to proceed for inquest, take a decision an the merits of the case and to initiate disciplinary action or award compensation and similarly to take action against frivolous complaints,"
(3) to provide protection to its members in discharging professional duties;
(h) to ensure that no unqualified person practices modern scientific system of medicine,