Section 10: Powers, function and meetings of the General Council.

(1) The General Council shall be the plenary authority of the Law University and shall formulate and review from time to time the broad policies and programmes of the Law University and devise measures for the improvement and development of the Law University and shall also have the following powers and functions, namely, - (i) 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 and the affairs of the Law University including prescribing the procedures to be followed by the authorities and the officers of the Law University in the discharge of their functions; and (iii) to recommend the person to be appointed as Vice Chancellor of the Law University from out of the panel prepared by the Selection Committee appointed by the Executive Council and proposed by it. (2) 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. (3) A report of the working of the Law University 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 Vice Chancellor of Law University to the General Council at its annual meetings. (4) Meeting of the General Council shall be called by the Registrar of Law University either at the request of not less than five members of the General Council or on the direction of the Chancellor. (5) A meeting of the General Council may be convened upon giving fifteen days’ notice in writing. (6) One-half of the members existing on the rolls of the General Council shall form the quorum. (7) 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. (8) In case of difference of opinion among the members, the opinion of the majority shall prevail.