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(g) appoint employees , evaluate their performance and discipline
them;
(h) any other business , as the Council , or its Chairperson may entrust
thereto .
Meeting of the Council
16.(1) The Council shall hold a periodical meeting, once, every month, and
they may hold emergent meetings, by the initiative of the Chairperson, or
upon a written request of one- third of the members .
(2) The quorum, for meeting of the Council, shall be constituted by the
attendance of more than half the members thereof.
(3) Decisions of the Council shall be adopted by consensus; and upon the
same not being possible, by the assents of the majority of the members
present; and in case of equality of votes, the Chairperson shall have a
casting vote.
Vacancy of the seat
17.(1) The seat of a member of the Council shall fall vacant in the following
cases :(a) death;
(b) resignation;
(c) relief, by the appointment, or election body;
(d) such infirmity , as may disable him to perform the duties of
membership;
(e) absence from three consecutive meetings, without permission,
or excuse acceptable by the Council;
(f) conviction of an offence involving honor, or honesty, or
contravention of the provisions of this Act.
(2) Upon vacancy of the seat, it shall be filled by the body concerned , by
the appointment, or election body, as the case may be, within a period,
not exceeding sixty days.