Under current rules, confederations must wait until two editions after they last hosted the event to bid again. 

The event cannot be staged in the same region more than once every 12 years.

But FIFA's Council will debate the possibility of amending this to ensure they have the power to go against the ruling "if circumstances so require".

Qatar is due to host the 2022 World Cup, meaning China would not have been eligible to enter the bidding race until 2034.

In October, the ruling Council confirmed the 2026 tournament would not take place in Europe because Russia is hosting next year's edition.

A joint bid from Argentina and Uruguay to mark the centenary of the first-ever World Cup in the latter country in 1930 is already the favourite to land the 2030 event, however.

"Following approval by the FIFA Council in October 2016, the new regulation states that in principle, the right to host the event shall not be awarded to members of the confederations that hosted the two previous editions of the FIFA World Cup," FIFA said in a supporting document for the agenda of the meeting in Manama on Tuesday (May 9).

"However, if circumstances so require, the FIFA Council may decide otherwise in accordance with the applicable regulations."

The World Cup rotation policy was one of several intriguing items on the Council meeting agenda, with the ruling body also proposing that the Bureau, comprised of the President and the six heads of the confederations, be granted further power.

In a similar power-grab to the one spearheaded by FIFA President Gianni Infantino and passed at last year's Congress in Mexico City, which controversially gave the Council the ability to hire and fire heads of its various Independent Committees, it is suggested that the "competences of the Bureau should be partially expanded to include certain non-urgent matters".

"The Bureau of the FIFA Council may currently only deal with matters of particular urgency," the legal text read. 

"However, relevant practice has shown that there are also certain other matters that, while not being of particular urgency, should nevertheless also be dealt with by the Bureau of the Council.

"Furthermore, it is proposed that there no longer be a requirement for the Council to ratify the decisions passed by the Bureau of the Council at its next meeting, but that the Council shall be informed of said decisions immediately."

The Council will also discuss "election or dismissal of members of the judicial bodies, the Audit and Compliance Committee, and the Governance Committee", as well as plans to scrap Local Organising Committees for World Cups.

The meeting will take place prior to FIFA's Congress at the Bahrain International Exhibition and Convention Center.

The full Council agenda can be read here.