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Start Free TrialKarnataka Panchayat Raj Act, 1993 Section 53
Title: Quorum and Procedure
State: Karnataka
Year: 1993
.....at a meeting of a Grama Panchayat] (5) If the person presiding is believed by any member present at the meeting to have any such pecuniary interest in any matter under discussion and if a motion to that effect be carried he shall not preside at the meeting during such discussion or vote on or take part in it . Any member of the Grama Panchayat may be chosen to preside at the meeting during the continuance of such discussion. 1 [(6) Every member of Grama Panchayat or any committee thereof shall be paid a sitting fee, per day of sitting at such rate, as may be prescribed.] _______________ 1. Substituted by Act 37 of 2003 w.e.f. 1.10.2003. 2. Inserted by Act 17 of 1996 w.e.f. 23.9.1996.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionManipur Panchayati Raj Act, 1994 Section 7
Title: Quorum
State: Central
Year: 1994
(1) The quorum for a meeting of the Gram Sabha shall be one-tenth of its total membership. (2) If at the time appointed for the meeting, a quorum is not present, the person presiding shall wait for thirty minutes, and if within such period, there is no quorum, the person presiding shall adjourn the meeting to the same time on the same day in the following week. He shall similarly, after waiting for thirty minutes, adjourn the meeting if at any time after it has begun, attention is drawn to the want of a quorum. A notice of the meeting so fixed shall be posted in the office of the Gram Panchayat. The business which could not be considered at the meeting so postponed for want of quorum, shall be brought before and disposed of at the meeting so fixed or at any subsequent adjourned meeting at which there is a quorum.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionManipur Panchayati Raj Act, 1994 Section 34
Title: Quorum and Procedure
State: Central
Year: 1994
.....of at the meeting so fixed or at any subsequent adjourned meeting at which there is a quorum. (2) Save as otherwise provided by or under this Act, at every meeting of Gram Panchayat, the Pradhan or in his absence the Up-Pradhan shall preside, and in the absence of both, the members present shall elect one from amongst themselves to preside for the occasion. (3) All questions shall, unless otherwise specifically provided, be decided by a majority of votes of the members present and voting. The Pradhan or Up-Pradhan or person presiding, as the case may be, unless he refrains from voting shall give his vote before declaring the number of votes for and against a question and in the case of equality of votes, he may give his casting vote. (4) No member of a Gram Panchayat shall vote on, or take part in the discussion of, any question coming up for consideration at a meeting of a Gram Panchayat, if the question is one in which, apart from its general application to the public, he has any pecuniary interest, and if the person presiding has such an interest, he shall not preside over the meeting when such question comes up for consideration. (5) If the person presiding is.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionKarnataka Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1966 Section 49
Title: Quorum and Procedure at Meetings
State: Karnataka
Year: 1966
.....for presiding over a meeting for adjourning such meeting for want of quorum. (4) All Questions shall, unless otherwise specially provided in this Act, the rules or the bye- laws, be decided by majority of votes of the members present and voting. The presiding authority, unless he refrains from voting, shall give his vote before declaring the number of votes for and against a question and in case of equality of votes, he shall give an additional or casting vote. (5) No member of a market committee shall vote on, or take part in the discussions of, any question coming up for consideration at a meeting of the market committee or any sub-committee, if the question is one in which, apart from its general application to the public, he has any direct or indirect pecuniary interest. (6) If the presiding authority is believed by any member present at the meeting to have any such pecuniary interest in any matter under discussion, and if a motion to that effect is carried, he shall not preside at the meeting during such discussion, or vote on, or take part in it. Any member of the committee may be chosen to preside at the meeting during the continuance of such discussion. (7) No.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCompanies Act, 2013, Section 174
Title: Quorum for Meetings of Board
State: Central
Year: 2013
.....of interested directors exceeds or is equal to two-thirds of the total strength of the Board of Directors, the number of directors who are not interested directors and present at the meeting, being not less than two, shall be the quorum during such time. Explanation.--For the purposes of this sub-section, "interested director" means a director within the meaning of sub-section (2) of section 184. (4) Where a meeting of the Board could not be held for want of quorum, then, unless the articles of the company otherwise provide, the meeting shall automatically stand adjourned to the same day at the same time and place in the next week or if that day is a national holiday, till the next succeeding day, which is not a national holiday, at the same time and place. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section,-- (i) any fraction of a number shall be rounded off as one; (ii) "total strength" shall not include directors whose places are vacant.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCantonments Act, 1924 Section 39
Title: Quorum
State: Central
Year: 1924
(1) The quorum necessary for the transaction of business at a meeting of a Board 1 [in which there is more than one elected member] shall be five or one-half of the number of members of the Board actually holding office at the time, whichever is the greater number: 2 [***] 1 [(1A)The quorum necessary for the transaction of business at a meeting of a Board constituted under sub-section (5) of section 13 or under sub-section (1) of section 14, shall be two.] (2) If a quorum is not present, the President, 3 [ or in the absence of the President, the Vice-President, or in the absence of both the President and the Vice-President, the Secretary] shall adjourn the meeting and the business which would have been brought before the original meeting if there had been a quorum present thereat shall be brought before, and may be transacted at, an adjourned meeting, whether there is a quorum present or not. ________________________ 1.Inserted by Act 24 of 1936, section 14. 2.The proviso rep. by Act 24 of 1936, section 14. 3.Inserted by Act 15 of 1983, section 25, w.e.f. 1-10-1983.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionNew Delhi Municipal Council Act 1994 Section 24
Title: Quorum
State: Central
Year: 1994
(1) The quorum necessary for the transaction of business at a meeting of the council shall be prescribed by the Central Government. (2) If at any time during a meeting of the Council, there is no quorum, it shall be the duty of the Chairperson or the person presiding over such meting either to adjourn the meeting or to suspend the meeting until there is a quorum. (3) Where a meeting has been adjourned under sub-section (2), the business which would have been brought before the original meeting if there had been a quorum present there at, shall be brought before, and may be transacted at an adjourned meeting, whether there is a quorum present or not.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCantonments Act, 2006 Section 41
Title: Quorum
State: Central
Year: 2006
(1) The quorum necessary for the transaction of business at a meeting of the Board shall be one-half of the number of members of the Board holding the office: Provided that if the number of members of the Board holding office at a particular time is an odd number, the quorum shall be one-half of the number obtained by adding one to the number of such members. (2) If a quorum is not present, the President or in his absence, the Vice-President or in the absence of both, the Member-Secretary shall adjourn the meeting and the business which would have been brought before the original meeting if there had been a quorum present thereat shall be brought before, and may be transacted at, an adjourned meeting, whether there is a quorum present or not.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCompanies Act, 1956 Section 174
Title: Quorum for Meeting
State: Central
Year: 1956
.....or private company. (3) If within half an hour from the time appointed for holding a meeting of the company, a quorum is not present, the meeting if called upon the requisition of members, shall stand dissolved. (4) In any other case, the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week, at the same time and place, or to such either day and at such other time and place as the Board may determine. (5) If at the adjourned meeting also a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for holding the meeting the members present shall be a quorum. ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 31 of 1965, Section 18, for certain words (w.e.f. 15-10-1965).
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionManipur Municipalities Act, 1994 Section 52
Title: Adjournment of Meeting in the Absence of Quorum
State: Central
Year: 1994
(1) No business shall be transacted at a meeting unless a quorum of one-third of the total number of Councillors of a Nagar Panchayat or a Council be present: Provided that in cases where the total number of Councillors of a Nagar Panchayat or a Council is not divisible by three, the total number shall be increase by such minimum number as to make the total number divisible by three. (2) If there be no quorum present at a meeting the Chairperson or in his absence the Vice-Chairperson shall adjourn the meeting to such hour of any future day as be may reasonably fix. A notice of such adjournment shall be fixed upon a notice board in the municipal office, and the business which would have been brought before the original meeting, has there been a quorum thereat, shall be brought before the adjourned meeting and may be disposed of at such meeting or at my subsequent adjournments thereof whether there be a quorum present or not. (3) A notice of adjournment exhibited in the notice board of the municipal office on the day on which the meeting is adjourned, shall be sufficient notice of the subsequent meeting.
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