Section 45: Meetings of local authority

45. Meetings of local authority (1) (a) The meetings and proceedings of a Municipal City Council, Municipal Town Council or District Council, and of any of its committees, shall be conducted in the manner specified in Part I of the Seventh Schedule. (b) A Municipal City Council, Municipal Town Council or District Council shall meet in an ordinary meeting as often as its business may require and at least once every month. (2) (a) The meetings and proceedings of a Village Council and any of its committees shall be conducted in the manner specified in Part II of the Seventh Schedule. (b) A Village Council shall meet in an ordinary meeting as often as its business may require and at least once every month. (3) (a) Subject to paragraph (b), a meeting of a Council shall be conducted in a place open to the public, but the Councillor presiding over the meeting may order the removal of any person for disorderly conduct or obstruction of proceedings. (b) A Council may order that the public be excluded from attendance at a meeting where the Council considers it to be necessary and appropriate, in order to receive, discuss or consider, in confidence, any information or matter. (4) Subject to this Act, a Council shall make Standing Orders for the regulation of its proceedings and business, and may vary or revoke any such orders. (5) The Minister may, after consultation with the local authorities concerned, by regulations, amend the Seventh Schedule. [S. 45 amended by s. 14 of Act 3 of 2015 w.e.f. 9 April 2015.]