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52. (1) Where any Ordinance confers a power or imposes a duty upon a body or number of persons consisting of or being not less than three, such power may be exercised or duty performed in the name of that body or number of persons by a majority of those persons.

(2) Whenever such body or number of persons is assembled, the chairman or other member presiding shall have a casting as well as a deliberative vote, in all matters in which a decision is taken by vote by whatever name such vote may be called.

(3) The exercise of any power vested in such body or number of persons may be signified either by the chairman or other person presiding at the meeting or other deliberation at which such power was exercised or at which, as the case may be, authority to exercise it was conferred, or by any person from time to time authorized by such body or persons to signify the exercise of such power.

53. Where any Ordinance constitutes any board, tribunal, commission, committee or similar body to be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal, and any document requires to be sealed with such common seal, then such common seal shall be affixed by the chairman of such board, tribunal, commission, committee or similar body, or by any member thereof appointed by the chairman for that purpose, and shall be authenticated by the signature of the chairman or such member. PART VIII.

54. In any Ordinance, instrument, warrant or process of any kind, any reference to a public officer, or to a person holding a public office by a term designating his office, shall include a reference to any person for the time being lawfully discharging the functions of that office, or of any part of such functions, and any person appointed to act in or perform the duties of such office, or any part of such duties, for the time being.

55. The Governor may, by notice (which may be given retrospective effect) in the Gazette, declare a change in title of any public office or Government department, and such change of title shall have effect from the date specified in such notice or, if no date is specified therein, from the date of publication thereof in the Gazette and with effect from such day, any reference in any Ordinance to the former title of such public office or Government department shall be read and construed as a reference to that office or department by such new title as the Governor may have so declared.