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2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "appointed date" means such date as the State Government may by notification, appoint; (b) "archaka" means any person who performs or conducts any worship, service, ritual or other religious observances in the Temple and includes a Pujari and sewayats; (c) "Board" means the Board of Trustees constituted under section 5; (d) "Chief Executive Officer" means the Chief Executive Officer appointed under section 12; (e) "endowment" means all properties, movable or immovable, belonging to or given or endowed for the support or maintenance or improvement of the Temple or for the performance of any worship service, ritual, ceremony or other religious observance in the Temple or any charity connected therewith and includes the idols installed therein, the premises of the Temple and gifts of property made or intended to be made for the Temple or the deities installed therein to anyone within the precincts of the Temple; (f) "Executive Committee" means the Executive Committee constituted under section 12; (g) "religious offering" means an offering made within the precincts of the Temple or otherwise, whether in cash or kind, associated with the performance or conduct of any worship, service, ritual, ceremony or religious observance in the Temple and includes postal or telegraphic remittances or cheques or bank drafts intended or meant to be an offering for use as such in the Temple; (h) "Temple" means the Temple of Shri Bankey Bihari Ji, situated in the city of Mathura which is used as a place of public religious worship, and dedicated to or for the benefit of or used as of right by the Hindus and includes all subordinate temples, shrines, sub-shrines and the ashthan of all other images and deities, mandaps, wells, tanks and other necessary structures and land appurtenant thereto and additions which may be made thereto after the appointed date: (i) Trust Fund means the Trust Fund constituted under section 9.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "appointed date" means such date as the State Government may by notification, appoint; (b) "archaka" means any person who performs or conducts any worship, service, ritual or other religious observances in the Temple and includes a Pujari and sewayats; (c) "Board" means the Board of Trustees constituted under section 5; (d) "Chief Executive Officer" means the Chief Executive Officer appointed under section 12; (e) "endowment" means all properties, movable or immovable, belonging to or given or endowed for the support or maintenance or improvement of the Temple or for the performance of any worship service, ritual, ceremony or other religious observance in the Temple or any charity connected therewith and includes the idols installed therein, the premises of the Temple and gifts of property made or intended to be made for the Temple or the deities installed therein to anyone within the precincts of the Temple; (f) "Executive Committee" means the Executive Committee constituted under section 12; (g) "religious offering" means an offering made within the precincts of the Temple or otherwise, whether in cash or kind, associated with the performance or conduct of any worship, service, ritual, ceremony or religious observance in the Temple and includes postal or telegraphic remittances or cheques or bank drafts intended or meant to be an offering for use as such in the Temple; (h) "Temple" means the Temple of Shri Bankey Bihari Ji, situated in the city of Mathura which is used as a place of public religious worship, and dedicated to or for the benefit of or used as of right by the Hindus and includes all subordinate temples, shrines, sub-shrines and the ashthan of all other images and deities, mandaps, wells, tanks and other necessary structures and land appurtenant thereto and additions which may be made thereto after the appointed date: (i) Trust Fund means the Trust Fund constituted under section 9.

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