570 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Meeting of the Dal :
(1) QUORUM :—The S. S. Dal shall meet together not less than once in every six months and shall, from time to time, make regulations consistent with this constitution.
(2) The President shall fix the dates for the six monthly meetings and may whenever he thinks fit and shall upon the written request of not less than one third of the members and for a date within twenty days from the receipt of such request call a special meeting.
(3) Fifteen clear days notice of a six monthly meeting and ten clear days notice of a special meeting specifying the time and place at which such meeting is to be held and the business to be transacted there and shall be circulated to the members.
(4) If less than one third of the whole of the members be present at a meeting at any time from the beginning to the end thereof, the presiding authority shall adjourn the meeting to such hour on the following or some other future day as he may reasonably fix and the business which would have been brought before the original meeting and there have been a Quorum there and shall be brought before the adjourned meeting and may be disposed of at such meeting or at any subsequent adjournment thereof whether there be a Quorum present or not.
(5) Every meeting shall be presided over by the President or he be absent by the Vice-president and if Vicepresident is absent by such one of the members present as may be chosen by the meeting to be Chairman for the occasion.
(6) All questions shall be decided by a majority of votes of the members present, the President, Vice-president or Chairman, as the case may be having a second or casting vote in all cases of equality of votes.