The Religious endowments act `1863
An Act to enable the Government to divest itself of the management of Religious Endowments.
List of Chapters & Sections
All sections
- 1[Repealed.]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- 24[Repealed.]