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Whenever owing to a vacancy in the office of Deputy Supreme Head or to the illness or absence from days of the Deputy Supreme Head, or to any other cause, the Deputy Supreme Head cannot exercise the sovereign functions in cases where under Clause (1) of would fall to be exercised by him, then such functions YANG DI-PERTUAN AGONG (EXERCISE OF FUNCTIONS) 483 shall fall to be exercised by the Ruler whose State is first on the list maintained under section 4 of the Third Schedule to the Federal Constitution if he is able and mei ster mimi secuneg frca bae oc e ta hea te States appear on such list) who is so able and willing.