(1) The Vice- President shall be appointed by the State Government under such terms and conditions as they may determine and he shall be either a whole-time or a parttime officer of the Board.
(2) The State Government may, subject to such conditions as they may impose, delegate such of the powers of the President conferred upon him by or under this Act to the Vice-President as they consider necessary.
(3) Without prejudice to the delegation made under sub-section (2), the President may delegate any of the powers conferred upon him by or under this Act to the Vice-President.
(4) The powers so delegated may, at any time, be withdrawn in like manner and the Vice-President shall, in exercising the said power, be subject to the control of the President.]
1[17. The President, or in his absence the Vice-President or in the absence of both the President and Vice-President, a member elected from among those present, shall preside at every meeting of the Board or of any Committee of which the President or Vice-President is a member, and the person so presiding shall be entitled to exercise a second or casting vote in every case where votes are equally divided.]