Lawgist10Vacancies to be filled
Whenever any vacancy shall occur among the members of a committee appointed as above, a new member shall be elected to fill the vacancy by the persons interested as above provided.
Procedure.--The remaining members of the committee shall, as soon as possible, give public notice of such vacancy, and shall fix a day, which shall not be later than three months from the date of such vacancy, for an election of a new member by the persons interested as above provided, under rules for elections which shall be framed by the State Government:
and whoever shall be then elected, under the said rules, shall be a member of the committee to fill such vacancy.
When Court may fill vacancy.---If any vacancy as aforesaid shall not be filled up by such election as aforesaid within three months after it has occurred, the Civil Court, on the application of any person whatever, may appoint a person to fill the vacancy or may order that the vacancy be forthwith filled up by the remaining members of the committee, with which order it shall then be the duty of such remaining members to comply; and, if this order be not complied with, the Civil Court may appoint a member to fill the said vacancy.
1[Explanation.-- In this section "Civil Court" means the principal Court of original civil jurisdiction in the district in which the mosques, temples or religious establishments for which the committee has been appointed or any of them are situate.]
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1. Added by Act 21 of 1925, s. 3.
- 1 [Repealed.]
- 2 Interpretation clause
- 3 Government to make special provision respecting mosques, etc
- 4 Transfer to trustees, etc., of trust-property in charge of Revenue Board
- 5 Procedure in case of dispute as to right of succession to vacated trusteeship
- 6 Rights, etc., of trustees to whom property is transferred under section 4
- 7 Appointment of committees
- 8 Qualifications of member of committee
- 9 Tenure of office
- 10 Vacancies to be filled
- 11 No member of Committee to be also trustee, etc., of mosque, etc
- 12 On appointment of Committee, Board and local agents to transfer property
- 13 Duty of trustee, etc., as to accounts
- 14 Persons interested may singly sue in case of breach of trust, etc
- 15 Nature of interest entitling person to sue
- 16 Reference to arbitrators
- 17 Reference under Act 10 of 1940
- 18 Application for leave to institute suits
- 19 Court may require accounts of trust to be filed
- 20 Proceedings for criminal breach of trust
- 21 Cases in which endowments are partly for religious and partly for secular purposes
- 22 Government not to hold charge henceforth of property for support of any mosque, temple, etc
- 23 Effect of Act in respect of Regulations therein mentioned, and of buildings of antiquity, etc
- 24 [Repealed.]
