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2Subject to any administrative scheme under this Act or to any standing orders made by a county council, the following provisions shall have effect with respect to convening meetings of the council and of committees and sub-committees thereof:—
(1)Notice of the time and place of a meeting of a county council shall be given by or on behalf of the county clerk not less than seven days before the meeting by being left at or sent by post to the usual place of residence or the place of business of every member of the council, and shall specify the business proposed to be transacted at the meeting:
Provided that want of notice to any member of the council shall not affect the validity of a meeting.
(2)The county clerk shall call a meeting of the county council at any time on being required so to do by the convener of the county or on receiving a requisition in writing for that purpose specifying the business proposed to be transacted at the meeting signed by one-fourth of the whole number of members of the council, which meeting shall be held within fourteen days of receipt of the requisition.
(3)Except in the case of business which has to be transacted at a meeting of the council required to be held by this Act or any other enactment or any statutory order, no business shall be transacted at a meeting of the council other than that specified in the notice of the meeting.
(4)The provisions of all the sub-paragraphs of this paragraph shall apply to committees and sub-committees of the council in like manner as they apply to the council, with the substitution of references to the committee or sub-committee, as the case may be, and to the chairman of the committee or subcommittee for references to the council and to the convener respectively, and the chairman of the committee or sub-committee, as the case may be, shall for the purpose of ascertaining whether a valid requisition for a meeting has been made determine whether any matter mentioned in the requisition is a matter in respect of which the county councillors representing a large burgh exercise a deliberative vote.
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