The RELIGIOUS ENDOWMENTS ACT, 1863

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Section 1 — [Repealed.].

[Repeal of parts of Bengal Regulation 19 of 1810 and Madras Regulation 7 of 1817.]—Rep. by the Repealing Act, 1870 (14 of 1870), s. 1 and the Schedule.

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  1. 1.[Repealed.].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  24. 24.[Repealed.].