(1) The Council shall hold its meetings at such intervals and at such places as may be provided for by regulations.
(2) No business shall be transacted at any meeting of the Council unless a quorum of seven members be present.
(3) Save as provided in clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 24, all questions arising at any meeting shall be decided by votes of the majority of the members present and voting and in case of an equality of votes by the casting vote of the President or, in his absence, of the member presiding at the meeting.
17. The Council shall pay to its President, Vice- President and members and other persons appointed by it to any Committee referred to in sub-section (6) of section 15, such fees for attending at meetings of the. Council, of the Executive Committee or of such Committee and such travelling expenses for journeys undertaken in the performance of duties as may be prescribed.
18. The Council shall have the following powers, namely :—
(1) with the approval of the State Government, to establish institutions teaching the Homoeopathic system of medicine and to grant or refuse affiliation to such institutions or to withdraw, after giving the authority of an institution an opportunity to show cause against the action proposed to be taken, such affiliation:
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(2) to call on the authority of an institution affiliated to the Council, or of an institution applying for affiliation, to furnish within such period as may be specified, such reports, returns or other information as the Council may require to judge the efficiency of the institution;
hold examinations for persons who shall have pursued a course of study in institutions affiliated to the Council, and to confer degrees, diplomas and certificates on them on having passed the necessary examinations;
(4) to provide by regulations courses of study for different examinations held by the Council;
(5) to provide for instruction or for refresher courses in such branches of medical science as would be useful to persons studying the Homoeopathic system of medicine;
(6) to appoint examiners and to fix their remuneration and to publish the results of the examinations held by it;
(7) to grant scholarships, prizes and medals to students of institutions affiliated to the Council who are meritorious, or stipends to students who are poor and deserving ' • and with the sanction of the State Government, to grant to students scholarships for research or special study in any institution that the Council may think fit, whether in India or abroad and to endow chairs of Homoeopathic s_ystcm of medicine in institutions affiliated to the Gouncil;
(8) to confer honorary degrees on Homoeopathic practitioners of extraordinary merit ;
(9) to collect prescribed fees or charges for admission to the examinations held by the Council and for certificates, diplomas or degrees granted or conferred by it;
(10) to exercise general supervision over the residential and disciplinary arrangements made by the institutions affiliated to the Council and arrangements for promoting the health and general welfare of the students of such institutions;
(11) to recommend to the state Government the sanction of a grant to an affiliated institution teaching the Homoeopathic system of medicine or the withdrawal or suspension, after giving the institution concerned an opportunity of showing cause against the action proposed, of any such grant;
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(12) to appoint such number of inspectors for the inspection of institutions teaching the Homoeopathic system of medicine as the Council may deem fit on such terms as the Council may, with the previous sanction of the State Government, determine;
(13) to receive grants, donations, gifts and endowments;
(14) to incur such expenditure, to adopt such measures and to do such acts as may be necessary for the furtherance of the objects mentioned in this section;
(15) to advise the State Government in the matter of research in Homoeopathic system of medicine;
(16) to perform such other functions as the State Government may direct or, on the recommendation of the Council, approve for carrying out the provisions of this Act.