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Section 9: Meetings of the Council.

The Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act, 1961.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 28 of 1961

9. Meetings of [the Council.]- (1) The meetings of [the Council] shall be convened, held and conducted in such manner as may be prescribed by rules.

[(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 [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) [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 [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.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act, 1961.
Section9
Marginal noteMeetings of the Council.
JurisdictionState of Maharashtra
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted, Mah. 23 of 1982. These words were substituted for the words "the Board or the Faculty." by Mah. 23 of 1982, s. 11(e).
  • substituted, Mah. 23 of 1982. These words were substituted for the words "the Board and the Faculty" by Mah. 23 of 1982, s. 11(a).
  • substituted, Mah. 23 of 1982. This sub-section was substituted for the original by Mah. 23 of 1982, s. 11(b).
  • substituted, Mah. 23 of 1982. These words were substituted for the words "the Board or the Faculty" by Mah. 23 of 1982, s. 11(c).
  • substituted, Mah. 23 of 1982. These words were substituted for the portion beginning with the words "Seven members" and ending with the words "Chairman as the case may be" by Mah. 23 of 1982, s. 11(d)(i).
  • substituted, Mah. 23 of 1982. These words were substituted for the words "the Board or the Faculty, as the case may be;" by Mah. 23 of 1982, s. 11(d)(ii).

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