Section 6: Meetings of the Authority

6. Meetings of the Authority.—(1) The meeting of the Authority shall be held on quarterly basis. (2) The president shall also call a meeting of the Authority, within five working days, on being requested in writing to do so by at least three Members of the Authority. (3) The Members of the Authority shall have reasonable notice of the date, time, and place of a meeting of the Authority and each matter on which a decision has to be made: Provided that in case of an urgent issue, the requirement of prior notice may be waived by the president. (4) The Authority may, by the regulations, prescribe the manner in which Authority meetings are to be held. (5) The president or in his absence, any other Member so nominated by the president, shall preside the meeting of the Authority. (6) The decisions of the Authority shall be taken by majority of its members present and in case of a tie, the member presiding a meeting shall have a casting vote. (7) The quorum for a meeting shall be sixty percent of the total Members with a fraction being counted as one. (8) No act or proceedings of the Authority shall be questioned or invalidated merely on the ground of existence of any vacancy or defect in the constitution of the Authority.

Effective date: 2023-08-03

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