260. (1) The council may authorize the payment of the expenses actually incurred by one of its members on behalf of the Regional Government, provided that such expenses have been approved by such council.
(2) Such amount as is fixed by ordinance of the Regional Government shall be deducted from the salary of any member of the council for each day on which the council sits, if such member of the council does not attend such meeting, unless his absence is due to its being impossible in fact for such member to attend such meeting.
(3) At the request of one of its members who has absented himself from a meeting, it shall be the duty of the council to decide finally whether it was in fact impossible for such member to attend such meeting. Such request must be made at the next meeting which such member of the council attends, whether such sitting is regular or special and whether or not such item appears on the agenda paper for such sitting.