Section 12: President and Vice-President

(1)

The Council at its first meeting shall elect two of its members to be respectively the President and the Vice-President thereof, and so often as the office of the President or the Vice-President falls vacant, the Council shall choose a person to be the President or the

Vice-President, as the case may be:

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(2)

The President shall be the 2 [Head] of the Council.

3 [(2A) The President shall preside at the meetings of the Council.

(2B)

The President and the Vice-President shall exercise such powers and perform such duties and functions as may be prescribed.

(2C)

It shall be the duty of the President to ensure that the decisions taken by the Council are implemented.]

(3)

The President or the Vice-President shall hold office for a period of one year from the date on which he is chosen but so as not to extend beyond his term of office as a member of the Council, and subject to his being a member of the Council at the relevant time, he shall be eligible for re-election 3 [under sub-section (1).]