Religious endowments act, 1863
Bare Act · 1863
An Act to enable the Government to divest itself of the management of Religious Endowments. Preamble.--.
- Act number
- 20 of 1863
- Enacted
- 10 March 1863
- Contents
- 24 sections
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Contents
- Section 1 – [Repealed.]
- 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 (preview)
- Section 7 – Appointment of committees (preview)
- Section 8 – Qualifications of member of committee (preview)
- Section 9 – Tenure of office (preview)
- Section 10 – Vacancies to be filled (preview)
- Section 11 – No member of Committee to be also trustee, etc., of mosque, etc (preview)
- Section 12 – On appointment of Committee, Board and local agents to transfer property (preview)
- Section 13 – Duty of trustee, etc., as to accounts (preview)
- Section 14 – Persons interested may singly sue in case of breach of trust, etc (preview)
- Section 15 – Nature of interest entitling person to sue (preview)
- Section 16 – Reference to arbitrators (preview)
- Section 17 – Reference under Act 10 of 1940 (preview)
- Section 18 – Application for leave to institute suits (preview)
- Section 19 – Court may require accounts of trust to be filed (preview)
- Section 20 – Proceedings for criminal breach of trust (preview)
- Section 21 – Cases in which endowments are partly for religious and partly for secular purposes (preview)
- Section 22 – Government not to hold charge henceforth of property for support of any mosque, temple, etc (preview)
- Section 23 – Effect of Act in respect of Regulations therein mentioned, and of buildings of antiquity, etc (preview)
- Section 24 – [Repealed.] (preview)