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Act Number: 20

Act Name: The Religious endowments act, 1863

Year: 1863

Enactment Date: 1863-03-10

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

Ministry: Ministry of Law and Justice

Department: Legislative Department

Section NumberTitleActions
1[Repealed.].
2Interpretation clause.
3Government to make special provision respecting mosques, etc.
4Transfer to trustees, etc., of trust-property in charge of Revenue Board.
5Procedure in case of dispute as to right of succession to vacated trusteeship.
6Rights, etc., of trustees to whom property is transferred under section 4.
7Appointment of committees.
8Qualifications of member of committee.
9Tenure of office.
10Vacancies to be filled.
11No member of Committee to be also trustee, etc., of mosque, etc.
12On appointment of Committee, Board and local agents to transfer property.
13Duty of trustee, etc., as to accounts.
14Persons interested may singly sue in case of breach of trust, etc.
15Nature of interest entitling person to sue.
16Reference to arbitrators.
17Reference under Act 10 of 1940.
18Application for leave to institute suits.
19Court may require accounts of trust to be filed.
20Proceedings for criminal breach of trust.
21Cases in which endowments are partly for religious and partly for secular purposes.
22Government not to hold charge henceforth of property for support of any mosque, temple, etc.
23Effect of Act in respect of Regulations therein mentioned, and of buildings of antiquity, etc.
24[Repealed.].
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