law: Company Secretaries Act, 1980
  17. Committees of the Council
  
  (1) The Council shall constitute from amongst
  
  its members the following Standing Committees, namely :-
  (a) an Executive
  
  Committee;
  (b) a Disciplinary
  
  Committee; and
  (c) an Examination
  
  Committee.
  (2) The Council may also constitute a Training
  
  and Educational Facilities Committee, Professional Research and Publications
  
  Committee and such other Committees from amongst its members as it deems
  
  necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act.
  (3) The Executive Committee shall consist of
  
  the President, and the Vice-President, ex officio, and three other members of
  
  the Council elected by the Council.
  (4) The Disciplinary Committee shall consist
  
  of the President, ex officio, one member to be nominated by the Central
  
  Government from amongst the members nominated to the Council by that Government
  
  and one member to be elected by the Council.
  (5) The Examination Committee shall consist of the President or the
  
  Vice-President, ex officio, as the Council may decide, and two other members of
  
  the Council elected by the Council.
  (6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this
  
  section, any Committee formed under sub-section (2), may, with the sanction of
  
  the Council co-opt such other members of the Institute not exceeding two-thirds
  
  of the total membership of the Committee as the Committee thinks fit, and any
  
  member so co-opted shall be entitled to exercise all the rights of a member of
  
  the Committee.
  (7) Every Committee constituted under this
  
  section shall elect its own Chairman :
  Provided that -
  ( i )
  
  where the President is a member of such Committee, he shall be the Chairman of
  
  such Committee, and in his absence, the Vice-President, if he is a member of
  
  such Committee, shall be its Chairman; and
  (ii) where the
  
  President is not a member of such Committee but the Vice-President is a member,
  
  he shall be its Chairman.
  (8) The Standing Committees and other
  
  Committees formed under this section shall exercise such functions and be
  
  subject to such conditions in the exercise thereof as may be prescribed.