THE RELIGIOUS ENDOWMENTS ACT, 1863

ACT NO. 20 OF 1863 · Enacted [10th March, 1863.] · 24 sections

Section 1.[Repealed.].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.

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Section 24.[Repealed.].