Section 10:
Vacancies to be filled.
Whenever any vacancy shall occur among the members of a committee
appointed as above, a new member shall be elected to fill the vacancy by the persons interested as above
provided.
Procedure.--The remaining members of the committee shall, as soon as possible, give public notice of
such vacancy, and shall fix a day, which shall not be later than three months from the date of such vacancy,
for an election of a new member by the persons interested as above provided, under rules for elections which
shall be framed by the State Government;
and whoever shall be then elected, under the said rules, shall be a member of the committee to fill such
vacancy.
When Court may fill vacancy.--If any vacancy as aforesaid shall not be filled up by such election as
aforesaid within three months after it has occurred, the Civil Court, on the application of any person
whatever, may appoint a person to fill the vacancy or may order that the vacancy be forthwith filled up by the
remaining members of the committee, with which order it shall then be the duty of such remaining members to comply; and if this order be not complied with, the Civil Court may appoint a member to fill the said
vacancy.
1[Explanation.--In this section "Civil Court" means the principal Court of original civil jurisdiction in
the district in which the mosques, temples or religious establishments for which the committee has been
appointed or any of them are situate.]
Notes:
1. Added by Act 21 of 1925, s. 3 (w.e.f. 11-9-1925).