38. (1) A Steering Committee shall be set up for the duration of the Assembly and shall consist initially of eleven members to be elected by the Assembly in accordance with the principle of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote.
(2) The Assembly may from time to time elect, in such manner as it may deem appropriate, eight additional members, of whom four shall be reserved for election from among the representatives of the Indian States.
(3) The President shall be an ex-officio member of the Steering Committee and shall be its ex-officio Chairman. The committee may elect a Vice-Chairman from among its members to preside over the committee in the absence of the President.
(4) The Secretary of the Assembly shall be ex-officio Secretary of the Steering Committee.
(5) Casual vacancies in the committee shall be filled as soon as possible after they occur by election by the Assembly in such manner as it may determine.