Lodge meetings are limited to one per day, with emergency meetings permitted only upon dispensation from the Grand Master or relevant authority in Metropolitan, Provincial, or District jurisdictions. Such meetings can be called by the Master, or in their absence, by the Senior or Junior Warden, but must not occur without proper authorization. Emergency meetings are restricted to specific business outlined in the summons and cannot address matters that require regular meeting protocols. Additionally, minutes from previous meetings are not read or confirmed unless they pertain directly to the business at hand. This ensures that emergency meetings remain focused and do not substitute for regular Lodge operations.
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Not more than one meeting of a Lodge may be held on one and the same day. When, on good cause shown, a dispensation shall first have been granted by the Grand Master, or, in a Metropolitan Area, Province or District, the Metropolitan, Provincial or District Grand Master, an emergency meeting of a Lodge may be called by the authority of the Master, or, if he be not available, then of the Senior Warden, or, if he also be not available, then of the Junior Warden, but on no pretence without such authority. No business which these Rules require to be transacted only at a regular meeting shall be transacted at an emergency meeting, and the business to be transacted thereat shall not include any business whatsoever except such as is mentioned on the summons convening the meeting nor shall the minutes of any previous meeting be read or confirmed at an emergency meeting, except in so far as any such minutes relate to or affect the validity of the business so mentioned.