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 * (4) The standing member of the Council Negri shall vacate his seat in the Council if he resigns it by writing under his hand addressed to the Speaker or if he ceases to be President of the Majlis Islam or to hold an office of emolument in the public service ; and upon the seat of the standing member becoming vacant paragraph (e) of clause (1) of Article 14 shall cease to have effect.


 * 19. If any question arises whether the Speaker or a member of the Council Negri has ceased to be qualified for appointment or election as such, the decision of the Council shall be taken and shall be final :


 * Provided that this Article shall not be taken to prevent the practice of the Council postponing a decision in order to allow for the taking or determination of any proceedings that may affect the decision (including proceedings for the removal of the disqualification).


 * 20. Any person who sits or votes in the Council Negri, knowing or having reasonable ground for knowing that he is not entitled to do so, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars for each day on which he so sits or votes, which penalty shall be recoverable as a civil debt in the High Court at the suit of the State Attorney General.


 * 21. (1) The Governor may from time to time summon the Council Negri, and shall not allow six months to elapse between the last sitting in one session and the date appointed for its first sitting in the next session.


 * (2) The Governor may prorogue or dissolve the Council Negri.


 * (3) The Council Negri shall, unless sooner dissolved, continue for five years from the date of its first sitting and shall then stand dissolved.


 * (4) Whenever the Council Negri is dissolved, a general election shall be held within sixty days from the date of the dissolution and the new Council Negri shall be summoned to meet on a date not later than ninety days from that date.


 * (5) Whenever the seat of an elected member has become vacant for any reason other than a dissolution, the vacancy shall, within sixty days from the date on which it is established that there is a vacancy, be filled by election in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution.


 * 22. The Speaker shall before exercising the functions of his office take and subscribe before the Governor the oath set out in Part III of the Schedule and every member of the Council Negri shall before taking his seat take and subscribe the said oath before the Speaker.


 * 23. The Governor may address the Council Negri and may send messages thereto.


 * 24. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the Council Negri shall regulate its own procedure and may make Standing Orders for that purpose.


 * (2) The Council Negri shall not be disqualified for the transaction of business by reason of any vacancy in its membership, and the