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(9) As soon as all the members present and wishing to exercise the right to vote have done so, the Returning Officer, shall open the ballot box and take out from it all the ballot papers, examine those and reject as invalid such of them

(a) on Which the vote has been given in favour of more than one candidate.

(b) on which vote mark is placed in such a manner as to make it doubtful as to which candidate the vote has been given.

(10) (i) The Returning Officer shall then proceed to arrange the valid votes according to the candidates in whose favour they have been cast and count them separately for each.

(ii) After the counting is over, the Returning Officer shall make an announcement in the meeting about the votes secured by each of the candidates.

(iii) The Returning Officer shall declare in Form 'B' the candidate securing the largest number of valid votes as duly elected to be the President of the Council. .

(iv) In the event of two or more candidates securing the same number of votes and that number being more than the number of votes secured by any candidate other than the two or more securing the same number of votes, the determination as between such candidates shall be by draw of lots and the candidate on whom the lot falls shall be declared elected.

4. Election of Vice-Presidents (Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani)

(1) The Vice-president for each of the Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani Systems of Medicine shall be elected from amongst themselves by members present at the time of election and representing that system of medicine.

(2) The date, time and place of the election shall be intimated to each of the members of the Council by the Secretary of the Council, who shall also perform the functions of the Returning Officer for this purpose.

(3) (i) Each member present would be entitled to propose the name of any other member present, and representing the same system of medicine as the proposer, for election as Vice-President of the Committee for the respective system.

(ii) The proposal shall be required to be seconded by a member representing the same system of medicine but being a member other than the proposer of the one whose name has been proposed provided that one member will be entitled to propose or second only one name.

(4) Any candidate may withdraw his candidature before actual election.

(5) If the name of only one candidate is proposed and seconded for any or each of the systems of medicine, the Returning Officer shall forthwith declare in Form 'D' such candidate or candidates as duly elected

(6) If the number of candidates duly proposed and seconded for each or any of the systems of medicine exceeds one, there shall be election or elections by secret ballot.

(7) Actual election of Vice-Presidents for each of the systems of medicine, except where the candidate or candidates has or have been declared elected unopposed shall take place one by one.