(1) No disqualification of or defect in the election or appointment of any person acting as councillor, or as the president or presiding authority of a general meeting or a chairman or member of a committee appointed under this Act, shall be deemed to vitiate any act or proceeding of the municipal council or of any such committee, as the case may be, in which such person has taken part, whenever the majority who were parties to such act or proceeding, were entitled to act.

(2) No resolution of a municipal council or of any committee appointed under this Act shall be deemed invalid on account of any irregularity in the service of notice, upon any councillor or member provided that the proceedings of the municipal council or committee, were not prejudicially affected by such irregularity.

(3) Until the contrary is proved every meeting of a municipal council orof a committee appointed under this Act in respect of proceedings whereof a minute has been made and signed in accordance with this Act, shall be deemed to have been duly convened and held and all the members of the meeting shall be deemed to have been duly qualified; and where the proceedings are the proceedings of a committee, such committee shall be deemed to have been duly constituted and to have had the power to deal with the matters referred to in the minute.

(4) During any vacancy in a municipal council or committee the continuingcouncillors or members may act as if no vacancy had occurred.

(5) No act done or proceeding taken under this Act shall be questionedon the ground merely of any defect or irregularity not affecting the merits of the case.