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(b) if any person, having been, for any period
immediately before the date upon which an Ixecutive
Council constituted for a Presidency in pursuance of

clause 10 of the existing Instructions ceases to exist, —

a Member of that Council, becomes a Member of
a. Presidential Executive Council as first constituted
under these Instructions, he shall be deemed to have
been a Member of the Presidential Executive Council
during that period; and no account shall be taken of
any interval between the end of that period and the
date upon which such person is first appointed or
elected as a Member of the Presidential Exeegutive
Council under these Instructions.

37. Whenever upon any special occasion the Governor,

Administrator or Commissioner desires to obtain the advice
of any person within a Presidency relating to affairs therein,

he may, in writing, summon such person to the Executive

Council of that Presidency for such special occasion.

38.—(1) The Governor shall, so far as he considers it
necessary for the exercise of his powers and the performance
of his duties, attend the meetings of the Executive Council
of a Presidency in which he is for the time being present,
and whenever he shall so attend, he shall preside.

' (2) Every Administrator and Commissioner shall, so
far as is practicable, attend at all meetings of the Executive
Council of the Presidency of which he is {he Administrator
or Commissioner, as the case may he; and whenever he shall
so attend he shall preside unless the Governor be present.

(3) In the absence of the Governor and of the
Administrator or Commissioner, as the case may be, such
Member as the Governor may-appoint, or in default of such
appointment or in the ahsence of any Member so appointed,
the Member of the Presidential Executive Council present
who stands first in order of precedence shall preside.

839. It shall not be necessary to summon to any
meeting of a Presidential Executive Council any Member
of such Council who is absent from the Presidency concerned.

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