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Colombo Bible College (Incorporation) Act (No. 32 of 1971) - Sect 17

Meetings of the Council of Management

8.
(1) The Corporation may, from time to time at any general meeting of the members and by a majority of the members present and qualified to vote at such meeting, make rules for the management of the affairs of the Corporation and the accomplishment of its objects. In particular and without prejudice to the foregoing power, such rules may make provision in respect of all or any of the following matters: -
(a) the admission, withdrawal and expulsion of members;
(b) the determination of the subscription payable by members and the collection of such subscriptions;
(c) the procedure to be followed in convening meetings of members of the Corporation and the transaction of business at such meetings;
(d) the conduct of the duties of the Council of Management and of the various officers, agents and servants of the Corporation;
(e) the administration and management of the affairs of the Corporation.
(2) Any rule of the Corporation may be amended or rescinded in like manner as a rule may be made under sub-section (1).
(3) The rules of the College set out in the Schedule to this Act shall for all purposes, be deemed to be the rules of the Corporation made under this section and may accordingly be amended or rescinded or replaced by new rules.
(4) The members of the Corporation shall be subject to the rules of the Corporation.
Meetings of the Council of Management
8.
(1) Meetings of the Council of Management shall be held at such places and at such times as the Council or the President may determine.
(2) The quorum for any meeting of the Council of Management shall be three.
(3) The President or in his absence the Vice-President, or in the case of the absence of both, a member chosen by the members present, shall preside at a meeting of the Council of Management.
(4) All questions for decision at any meeting of the Council of Management shall be decided by the vote of the majority of the members present. In the case of an equality of votes the chairman of the Meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
(5) The President may at any time convene a special meeting of the Council of Management and the Secretary shall upon a request signed by at least five members of the Council of Management convene a special meeting of the Council within seven days of the request. At least three days' notice shall be given of all special meetings of the Council of Management. and the proceedings at such meetings.
(6) Notwithstanding a vacancy or vacancies in the member ship of the Council of Management, the remaining members of the Council of Management may continue to exercise their powers and perform their functions and duties but where the number of members of the Council of Management falls below the quorum for a meeting of the Council the remaining members shall not exercise their rights or perform their functions or duties: Provided that nothing in the preceding provisions of this paragraph shall prevent the remaining members when their number is less than the number necessary to constitute the quorum for a meeting of the Council of Management, from increasing the number of members so as to constitute the quorum or from summoning a general meeting of the members of the College.
(7) No act or proceeding of the Council of Management shall be invalid by reason only of the existence of any vacancy among its members or any defect in the appointment thereof.

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