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The Religious Endowments Act, 1863

An Act to enable the Government to divest itself of the management of Religious Endowments.

धार्मिक विन्‍यास अधिनियम, 1863

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Act Details

Act Number:

20

Act Year:

1863

Location:

Enactment Date:

3/10/1863

Enforcement Date:

10-03-1863

Ministry:

Ministry of Law and Justice

Department:

Legislative Department

All Section List

Section 1 to Section 24

Section 1

Section 2

Interpretation clause.

Section 3

Government to make special provision respecting mosques, etc.

Section 4

Transfer to trustees, etc., of trust-property in charge of Revenue Board.

Section 5

Procedure in case of dispute as to right of succession to vacated trusteeship.

Section 6

Rights, etc., of trustees to whom property is transferred under section 4.

Section 7

Appointment of committees.

Section 8

Qualifications of member of committee.

Section 9

Tenure of office.

Section 10

Vacancies to be filled.

Section 11

No member of Committee to be also trustee, etc., of mosque, etc.

Section 12

On appointment of Committee, Board and local agents to transfer property.

Section 13

Duty of trustee, etc., as to accounts.

Section 14

Persons interested may singly sue in case of breach of trust, etc.

Section 15

Nature of interest entitling person to sue.

Section 16

Reference to arbitrators.

Section 17

Reference under Act 10 of 1940.

Section 18

Application for leave to institute suits.

Section 19

Court may require accounts of trust to be filed.

Section 20

Proceedings for criminal breach of trust.

Section 21

Cases in which endowments are partly for religious and partly for secular purposes.

Section 22

Government not to hold charge henceforth of property for support of any mosque, temple, etc.

Section 23

Effect of Act in respect of Regulations therein mentioned, and of buildings of antiquity, etc.

Section 24