পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বিতীয় খণ্ড).pdf/৫৩৮

511 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বিতীয় খন্ড 16. Speaker and Deputy Speaker. - (1) The National Assembly shall, as soon as may be, elect two of its members to be respectively the Speaker and Deputy Speaker and shall, so often as the office of Speaker or Deputy Speaker becomes vacant, elect another member to be the Speaker, or, as the case may be. Deputy Speaker. (2) Until the Speaker and Deputy Speaker are elected, the Commissioner shall preside at the meetings of the National Assembly and perform the functions of Speaker. (3) Where the office of the Speaker is vacant, the Deputy Speaker, or, if the office of the Deputy Speaker is also vacant, the Commissioner, shall perform the functions of Speaker. (4) During the absence of the Speaker from any meeting of the National Assembly, the Deputy Speaker or if the Deputy Speaker is also absent, such member as may be determined by the rules of procedure of the Assembly, shall perform the functions of Speaker. (5) A member holding office as Speaker or Deputy Speaker shall cease to hold that office (a) If he ceases to be a member of the National Assembly; (b) If he resigns his office by writing under his hand addressed to the President; or (c) If a resolution expressing want of confidence in him is moved in the Assembly after not less than fourteen days notice of the intention to move it and passed by the votes of not less than two-thirds of the total number of members of the National Assembly. 17. Quoram and Rules of Procedure. - (a) If, at any time during a meeting of the National Assembly, the attention of the person presiding at the meeting is drawn to the fact that the number of persons present is less than one hundred, the person presiding shall either suspend the meeting until the number of members present is not less than one hundred or adjourn the meeting. (b) The procedure of the National Assembly shall be regulated by the rules of procedure set out in Schedule III; in particular the National Assembly shall decide how a decision relating to the Constitution Bill is to be taken. (c) The National Assembly may act notwithstanding any vacancy in the seat of a member and no proceedings in the Assembly shall be invalid by reason that some members whose election is subsequently held to have been void, or who, after election, had incurred a disqualification for membership voted or otherwise took part in the proceedings. 18. Privileges, etc. of the National Assembly, -(a) The validity of any proceedings in the National Assembly shall not be called in question in any court. (b) A member or a person entitled to speak in the National Assembly shall not be liable to any proceedings in any court in respect of anything said or any vote given by him in the Assembly or in any Committee thereof.