(a) When for the purpose of explanation during discussion or for any other sufficient reason any member has occasion to ask a question of another member relating to the business before the Council he shall ask the question through the President.
(b) When a resolution or any amendment has been defeated no resolution or amendment raising substantially the same question shall be moved within a period of eleven months, provided that with the permission of the President such resolution or amendment may be brought up again before the Council after the expiry of five months but that it shall not be moved except with the approval of a majority of three-fourths of the members present.
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37. The proceedings of the meeting of the Council shall be preserved in the form of printed minutes authenticated after confirmation, by the signature of the President or the Chairman as the case may be.
38. A copy of the minutes of each meeting shall be sent to each member within 30 days of the meeting and a precise of the minutes of each meeting shall also be sent by the President to the Press.
39. Such motions and amendments as have been moved and adopted or negatived at any meeting, together with the names of the mover and the seconder shall be recorded in the minutes of the meeting.
The minutes shall not record any comment or observation made by any member at the meeting.
40. The minutes shall be taken as read provided that any member may move that a certain minute be read with a view to such correction therein or addition thereto as may be found necessary.
41. When a new or amended regulation is adopted by the Council a formal statement shall be placed on the minutes regarding the effect of the new amended regulations upon previous regulations on the same subject.
42. After the close of any session of the Council a complete copy of the confirmed minutes of each session shall be sent to each member.
43. The minutes of the Council, after final revision, sha1I be kept in order that as soon as convenient after the session, they may be made up in sheets and consecutively paged for insertion in the yearly volume.
44. The Council shall appoint a Registrar and such other officers or servants as it may deem necessary who shall receive such salaries or allowances, or honorarium as the Council may decide from time to time.
45. The duties of the Registrar shall be as required of him by the Punjab Nurses Registration Act and the rules and regulations framed thereunder. He shall be responsible to conduct all correspondence connected with the functions and activities of the Council, to keep accounts and record proceedings.
46. The duties of the clerks and other servants of the Council shall be as such as shall be assigned to them by the Registrar under the direction of the President.
47. The Council may delegate powers to the President to appoint all officials below the rank of Registrar on the scale of pay or allowance or honorarium sanctioned by the Council for the posts.
48. The Council may delegate powers to the President to engage temporary establishment to cope with the work in times of emergency. The action taken by the President shall be reported to the Council for confirmation at its next meeting.
49. The Registrar and all other members of establishment of the Council be governed by Fundamental Rules and subsidiary rules framed by the State Government thereunder for the purposes of leave admissible to them.
50. The President shall be competent to grant leave of absence to the Registrar and other members of the establishment of the Council office. The President shall report grant of leave to the Registrar and the arrangement made for his work for confirmation to the Council at its next meeting.
51. The Registrar shall be competent to grant casual leave not exceeding 10 days at a time to the members of office establishment of the Council
52. The President shall be competent to take such disciplinary action as he may deem necessary including withholding of increments, suspension, removal or dismissal against all members of the office establishment of the Council below the rank of Registrar. An appeal against his decision shall lie with the Council. No appeal shall lie against the decision of the Council.
53. The President shall report to the Council all matters for disciplinary action against the Registrar for their decision. No appeal shall lie against the decision of the Council.
54. The President and the Registrar shall be joint treasurers and all drafts and receipts, etc., shall be signed by them both.
55. All payments and contributions shall be made to either treasurers and all drafts and receipts etc., shall be signed by the joint treasurers, the President or the Registrar.
TRAVELLING ALLOWANCE AND FEES 1[56. The travelling expenses of the member shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of Fundamental Rules and the non-official members shall be treated as officer of grade VII.]
2[57. A fee of Rs.16 shall be paid to each member who attends a meeting of the Council or of a Sub- Committee.)
Custody of the Seal
58. The seal shall be in the custody of the Registrar and shall be affixed on each Registration Certificate issued under the Act.
1Substituted.-vide -Punjab Government Notification No. 4937-M 41/53024, dated the 13th October. 1941.
2Substituted.-vide Punjab Government Notification No. 614-52-HB 52/11-4017, dated .the 6th August, 1952.
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