CENTRAL
BOARD FOR THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF WATER POLLUTION (PROCEDURE FOR TRANSACTION
OF BUSINESS) RULES, 1975 EXTRAORDINARY
Part
II - Section 3 - Sub-Section (1) (1)
In
exercise of the powers conferred by section 63 of the Water (Prevention and
Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (6 of 1974), the Central Government after
consultation with the Central Board for the Prevention and Control of Water
Pollution hereby makes the following rules, namely:
1.
Short title and commencement - (1) These rules may be called
the Central Board for the Prevention and Control of Pollution (Procedure for
Transaction of Business) Rules, 1975.
(2)
They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official
Gazette.
2.
Definitions - In these rules, unless the context otherwise
requires.-
(a)
"Act" means the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (6 of
1974);
(b)
"Government" means the Central Govemment;
(c)
"Chairman" means the Chairman of the Central Board;
(d)
"Member" means a member of the Central Board and includes the Chairman thereof;
(e)
"Member Secretary" means the Member Secretary of Central Board;
(f)
"Meeting" means a meeting of the Central Board;
(g)
"Section" means a section of the Act;
3.
Notice of Meeting - (1) Meetings of the Central Board shall
ordinarily be held at Delhi on such dates as may be fixed by the Chairman.
(2) The Chairman shall, upon the written request of not less than five Members
of the Central Board or upon a direction of the Central Government, call a
special meeting of the Central Board.
(3) Fifteen clear days' notice of an ordinary meeting and three clear days'
notice of a special meeting specifying the time and the place at which such
meeting is to be held and the business to be transacted thereat, shall be
given by the Member-secretary to the members.
(4) Notice of a meeting may be given to the Members by delivering the same
by messenger or sending it by registered post to his last known place of residence
or business or in such other manner as the Chairman, may, in the circumstances
of the case, thinks fit.
(5) No member shall be entitled to bring forward for the consideration of
the meeting any matter of which he has not given ten clear days' notice to
the Member-sectetary, unless the chairman, in his direction, permits him to
do so.
(2)[(6)
(a) The Central Board may adjourn its meetings from day to day or to any particular
date.
(b) Where a meeting of the Central Board is adjourned from day to day notice
of such adjourned meeting shall be given to the Members available in the city,
town or other place where the meeting which is adjourned if held, either by
telephone or by special messenger and it shall not be necessary to give notice
of the adjourned meeting to other Members.
(c) Where a meeting of the Central Board is adjourned not from day to day
but from the day on which the meeting is held to another date, notice of such
meeting shall be given to all the Members as provided in sub-rules (3) and
(4).]
(3)(7.)]
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4. Presiding Officer - Every meeting shall be presided over by the Chairman
and, in his absence, by a Chairman for the meeting to be elected by the members
present from amongst themselves.
5. All questions to be decided by majority - (1) All questions at a meeting
shall be decided by a majority of votes of members present, and voting shall
be by raising of hands in favour of the proposal.
(2)
In case of an equality of votes, the presiding officer shall have a second
or casting vote.
6.
Quorum - (1) Five members shall form the quorum for any meeting.
(2) If at any time fixed for any meeting or during the course of any meeting
a quorum is not present, the presiding officer shall adjourn the meeting and
if a quorum is not present on the expiration of fifteen minutes from such
adjournment the presiding officer shall adjourn the meeting to such hours
on the following or on some other future date as he may fix.
(3)
No quorum shall be necessary for the adjourned meeting.
(4) No matter which had not been on the agenda of the original meeting shall
be discussed at such adjourned meeting.
(4)[(5) (a) Where a meting of the Central Board
is adjourned under sub-rule (2) for want of quorum to the following day, notice
of such adjourned meeting shall be given to the Members available in the city,
town or other place where the meeting which is adjourned is held, either by
telephone or by special messenger and it shall not be necessary to give notice
of the adjourned meeting to other Members.
(b) Where a meeting of the Central Board is adjourned under sub-rule (2) for
want of quorum not to the following day but to another date, notice of such
adjourned meeting shall be given to all the Members as provided in sub-rule
(3) and (4).
7.
Minutes - (1) Record shall be kept of the names of members
who attend the meeting and of the proceedings at the meeting in a book to
be maintained for that purpose by the Member-secretary.
(2) The minutes of the previous meeting shall be read at the beginning of
the every succeeding meeting, shall be confirmed and signed by the presiding
officer at such meeting.
(3) The proceedings shall be open to inspection by any member at the office
of Central Board during office hours.
8.
Maintaining order at meeting - The presiding officer shall
preserve order at a meeting.
9.
Business to be transacted at meeting - Except with the permission
of the presiding officer, no business which is not entered in the agenda or
of which notice has not been given by a member under sub-rule (5) of rule
3, shall be transacted at any meeting.
10.Order
of business - (1) At any meeting business shall be transacted in
the order in which it is entered in the agenda.
(2) Either at the beginning of the meeting or after the conclusion of the
debate on a motion during the meeting the presiding officer or a member may
suggest a change in the order of business as entered in the agenda and if
the meeting agrees, such a change shall take place.
11.
Procedure for transaction of business of Committees constituted by
the Board - (1) The time and place of the meetings of the committees
constituted by the Central Board under sub-section (1) of section 9 shall
be as specified by the Chairman.
(2) The quorum for a meeting of a committee constituted under sub-section
(1) of section 9 shall be one-half of the total number of members of the committee.
(3) Subject to sub-rule (1) and sub-rule (2) the meetings of any of the committees
constituted under sub-section (1) of the section 9 shall, as far as may be
governed by the rules applicable to the meetings of the Central Board.
[NO. Q. 1505/16/74/EFQ]
S. CHAUDHURI, Jt. Secy.
1.
Source : The Gazette of India
2.
Substituted by G.S.R. 1489, dated 11-10-1976
3.
Omitted, ibid
4.
Substituted by G.S.R. 1489, dated 11-10-1976