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The Religious endowments act `1863

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

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    • 1[Repealed.]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    • 24[Repealed.]