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(AMENDED UPTO OCTOBER 2009)
(Published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Issue Part III – Section 4 Dated 15th November 2000)
Medical Council of India
Notification,
New Delhi, the 25th October, 2000

MCI No. 2(1) 2000 Med. – In exercise of the powers conferred by section 33 of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956 (102 of 1956) the Medical Council of India, with the previous sanction of the Central Government, hereby makes the following regulations, namely :-

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1. Short title and commencement –
(1) These Regulations may be called the Medical Council of India Regulations, 2000.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the official Gazette.

PART – 2
CONDUCT OF BUSINESS AT MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL

9. Presiding Officer.
a. Every meeting of the Council shall be presided over by the President, or if he is absent, by the Vice-President, or if both the President and the Vice-president are absent, by a Chairman to be elected by the members present from among themselves.
b. All references in this part to the President shall be read as referring to the person for the time being presiding over a meeting.

10. Quorum :- The quorum for a meeting of the Council shall be one third of the effective membership of the Council on the date of such meeting.

11. Adjournment for want of quorum :- If, at any time appointed for a meeting or during the course of any meeting, a quorum is not present, the meeting shall be adjourned, and if a quorum is not present, on the expiration of thirty minutes from such adjournment, the meeting shall stand adjourned to such future date and time as the President of the Council may appoint.

12. Conduct of business :-
a. Every matter raised by a member shall be determined on a motion moved by the member duly seconded and put to the Council by the President.
b. When a motion has been moved and seconded and put to the Council by the President, it may be discussed as a question to be resolved either in the affirmative or in the negative or any member may, subject to sub-regulations (2) and (3) of regulation 15, move an amendment to the motion:

Provided that the President shall not allow an amendment to be moved which, if it had been a substantive motion, would have been inadmissible under sub-regulation (1) of regulation 8.
c. Any motion or amendment standing in the name of a member who is absent from the meeting may be brought forward by another member with the permission of the President.

13. Amendment to Motions : - When an amendment to any motion is moved and seconded or when two or more such amendments are moved and seconded, the President shall state or read to the Council the terms of the original motion and of the amendment or amendments proposed serially.

14. Identical Motions : - When motions identical in purport stand in the name of two or more members, the President shall decide whose motion shall be moved and the other motion or motions shall thereupon be deeded to be withdrawn.

15. Scope of Amendments :- (1) An Amendment shall be relevant to, and within the scope of, the motion to which it is proposed. (2) An amendment may not be moved that negates the original motion.
(3) The President may refuse to put to the Council an amendment which in his opinion is not relevant to the motion.

16. Form of Amendments :- A motion may be amended by –
a. The omission, insertion or addition of words, or
b. The substitution of words for any of the original words.

17. Debate :- (1) When a motion or amendment is under debate, no proposal with reference thereto shall be made other than-
a. an amendment of the motion or of the amendment as the case may be, as proposed in regulation 13;
b. a motion for the adjournment of the debate on the motion or amendment either to a specified date and hour or sine die:
c. a motion for the closure, namely a motion that the question be now put;
d. a motion that the Council instead of proceeding to deal with the motion do pass to the next item on the programme of business:
Provided that no motion of the nature referred to in clauses (b), (c) and (d) shall be moved or seconded by a member who has already spoken to the question then before the meeting:

Provided further that a motion referred to in clauses (c) and (d) shall be moved without any speech.

(2) It shall be the discretion of the President to accept or refuse a proposal of the nature referred to in clause (b) of the sub-regulation (1).
(3) Upon accepting the closure motion, the President shall put the substantive motion or amendment to vote after allowing the mover the right to reply.

18. Withdrawal of motion :- A motion or an amendment which has been moved and seconded shall not be withdrawn save with the leave of the Council which shall not be deemed to be granted, if any member dissents from the granting of leave.

19. Discussions by Members :- When a motion has been moved and seconded, members other than the mover and the seconder may speak on the motion in such order as the President may direct:
Provided that the seconder of a motion or of an amendment may, with the permission of the President, confine himself to seconding the motion or amendment, as the case may be, and speak thereon at any subsequent stage of the debate.

20. Right of reply of the Mover :- The mover of a motion and, if permitted by the President, the mover of any amendment, shall be entitled to a right of final reply and no other member shall speak more than once to any debate except with the permission of the president, for the purpose of making a personal explanation or of putting a question to the member then addressing the Council :

Provided that a member may at any stage of the debate may raise a point of incorporating therein a point of law, or statutory procedure, but shall not be allowed to make any speech:

Provided further that a member who has spoken on a motion may speak again on an amendment subsequently moved to the motion.

21. Voting on Motion : - When any motion involving several points has been discussed, it shall be in the discretion of the President to divide the motion and put each or any point separately to vote as he may think fit.

22. Voting on amendment to Motion :-
1. An amendment to a motion shall be put to vote.
2. If there are more amendments than one to a motion the President shall decide the order in which they shall be taken up.
3. Voting shall ordinarily be by show of hands, but it may be by ballots in case a demand to that effect is made by not less than three members:
4. The result of the votes shall be announced by the President.
5. In the event of equality of votes, the President shall have casting vote.

23. Adjournment of meetings :-
a. The President may if he deems necessary at any time, adjourn any meeting to any future date or to any hour of the same day stating the reasons thereof.
b. Whenever a meeting is adjourned to a future date, the Secretary shall send notice of the adjourned meeting to all the members.
c. When a meeting has been adjourned to a future date and the President changes it to any other date for compelling reasons, the Secretary shall communicate the said change to each member.
d. At a meeting adjourned to a future date any motion standing over from the previous day shall, unless the President otherwise directs, takes precedence over other matters on the agenda.
e. Either at the beginning of the meeting or after the conclusion of the debate on a motion during the meeting, the President or a member may suggest a change in the order of business on the agenda and if the Council agrees such a change shall take place.
f. No matter which had not been on the agenda of the original meeting shall be discussed at an adjourned meeting.
g. The same quorum shall be necessary for an adjourned meeting as for the ordinary meeting.

24. Points of Order :-
1. The President shall decide all points of order or disputes which may arise in any meeting.
2. If any question arises with reference to procedure in respect of a matter for which these regulations have no provision the President shall decide the same.

25. Authorised persons to attend General Body meetings :- In the meetings of the General Body, no person other than the members, officers and employees of the Council shall be present except with the prior permission or special invitation of the President.