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Section 31. Acts and proceedings not to be invalidated by vacancies

1[No act of the Council or any Institute[ or Board or Senate or any other body set up under this Act or the Statutes, shall be invalid merely by reason of--

(a) any vacancy in, or defect in, the constitution thereof, or

(b) any defect in the election, nomination or appointment of person acting as a member thereof, or

(c) any irregularity in its procedure not affecting the merits of the case.

1Superscript markers show text inserted or substituted by a later amendment. The Act carries the markers without the footnotes they refer to, so they are shown without a target.