(i) Chief Justice of the Gauhati High Court as President;
(ii) Any Former President on invitation of the President;
(iii) two sitting or retired judges of Gauhati High Court, nominated by the President;
(iv) Advocate General of Assam;
(v) Director General of the Law School will be the Member-Secretary of the General Council;
1520 Powers, Junctions and meetings of the General Council THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2009---------
(vi) an eminent educationist nominated by the Government of Assam;
(vii) a nominee of the Chairman of the Bar Council of India from amongst the members of the Bar Council of India;
viii) Chairman, Bar Council of Assam ;
(ix) two eminent persons in the disciplines of Social Sciences and Humanities nominated by the President;
(x) Director of the Judicial Academy established under this Act;
(xi) two eminent persons in legal or educational field, nominated by the President;
(xii) four members from the Government of Assam among whom, one shall be the Chief Secretary to the Government of Assam, one shall be the Principal Secretary to the Government of Assam, Finance Department and one shall be the Legal Remembrancer and Secretary to the Government of Assam, Judicial Department, and one shall be the Secretary to the Government of Assam, Higher Education Department ;
(xiii) the Registrar of the Law School; and
(xiv) all the Professors, who are the Heads of Departments in the Law School.
(2) (i) where a person has become a member of the General Council by reason of the post or appointment he holds, his membership shall be co terminus with the post held by him.
(ii) the term of office of the nominated members of the General Council other than the ex-officio members shall be three years;
(iii) a member of the General Council shall cease to be a member if he resigns or becomes of unsound mind, or insolvent or is convicted of a criminal offence involving moral turpitude;
(iv) a member of the General Council other than an ex-officio member may resign his office by a letter addressed to the President and such resignation shall take effect as soon as it has been accepted ; and
(v) any such vacancy In the General Council shall be filled by nomination by the respective nominating authority and on expiry of the period of the vacancy, such nomination shall cease to be effective.
i
10. (1) The General Council shall be the plenary authority of the Law School and shall formulate and review from time to time /> » THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2009 1521.
the broad policies and programmes of the Law School and devise measures for the improvement and development of the Law School and shall also have the following powers and functions, namely:-
(1) to consider and pass the annual report, financial statement and the budget estimates prepared by the Executive Council and to adopt them with or without modification;
(ii) to make statutes concerning the administration of the affairs of the Law School including prescribing the procedures to be followed by the authorities and the officers of the Law School in the discharge of their functions; and
(iii) to recommend the person to be appointed as Director General of the Law School from out of the panel prepared by the Selection Committee appointed by the Executive Council, and proposed by it.
(2) (i) the General Council shall meet at least once in a year. An annual meeting of the General Council shall be held on a date to be fixed by the Executive Council, unless some other date has been fixed by the General Council in respect of any year;
(ii) a report of the working of the Law School during the previous year, together with a statement of receipts and expenditure, duly audited balance sheet, and the financial estimates shall be presented by the Director General of Law School to the General Council at its annual meetings;
(iii) meeting of the General Council shall be called by the Director General of Law School either at the request of not less than five members of the General Council or on the direction of the President;
(iv) for every meeting of the General Council, fifteen days notice shall be given;
(v) one-third of the members existing on the rolls of the General Council shall form the quorum;
(vi) each member shall have one vote and if there be equality of votes on any question to be determined by the General Council, the person presiding over the meeting shall, in addition, have a casting vote; and
(vii) in case of difference of opinion among the members, the opinion of the majority shall prevail.
1522 THE. ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2009 Executive Council