The proposed new rules, which have been drafted by the Council's legal advisers in ce-operation with the Secretariat, will be submitted by the Council to the Ratepayers at the next meeting and if adopted by the Ratepayers, will govern procedure at subsequent Ratepayers' Meetings. They cannot, of course, govern procedure at the forthcoming meeting.
Opportunity has been taken to clarify the existing rules on a number of points and to bring them into line in every detail with the procedure which is actually carried out.
The present rules provide that seven clear days' notice must be given of any resolution to be submitted to a meeting of Ratepayers. In the Council's opinion it is unnecessary to require more than three days' notice. There may be occasions, especially when the Easter holidays intervene, where there is little time for Ratepayers to consider the Report and Accounts and frame their resolutions giving due notice of them to the Secretary of the Council, "The new rules, accordingly, provide that both in the case of tesolutlons and proposed amendments to the Report and Accounts and Budget resolutions, only three clear days' notice need be given (exclusive of Sundays and holidays).
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