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== Procedures ==
The Council of the UNAC usually has much simpler procedures than the [[Auroran Parliament]]. It is not burdened with public hearings and consultations, committee deliberations etc. It may establish committees, but it rarely does. Usually, the Office of the [[President of the UNAC Commission]] provides all the logistical support including legal advisors that the Council of the UNAC needs to do its work.
The President of the Council of the UNAC is the presiding officer. They handle the agenda and preside over meetings and they communicate with senior officials from other bodies of the UNAC as necessary. This is a position that rotates every few months. A meeting of the Council is held once a week unless either two or more of the members ask the President of the Council for an extraordinary sitting or a duly constituted sitting agrees to hold an extraordinary sitting.
The Council proceeding are usually more informal and the rules surrounding speaking time, conduct and so on are more loose. Furthermore, whereas sessions of the Auroran Parliament are usually public, the Council's deliberations are private unless disclosed by a majority of the members. Most decisions are made by a simple majority of all the members. Most decisions require all members to be present for a decision to be binding. 66% of its members must agree to ordinary and temporary legislation for it to be binding and 75% of its members need to agree for a security or extraordinary act to be binding.
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