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4. In this Act, Unless the context otherwise requires- (1) appointed date means such date as the State Government may by notification, appoint; (2) archaka means any person who performs or conducts any worship, service, ritual or other religious observances in the Temple and includes a Pujari, Panda, Purohit or Sewak; (3) Board means the Board of Trustees constituted under section 6; (4) Chief Executive officer means the Chief Executive officer appointed under section 16; (5) 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 any one within the precincts of the Temple; (6) Executive Committee means the Executive Committee constituted under section 19; (7) Prescribed means prescribed by rules made or notified order issued by the State Government under this Act; (8) 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; (9) Temple means the Temple of Adi Vishweshwar, popularly known as Sri Kashi Vishwanath Temple, situated in the City of Varanasi 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, as a place of public religious worship of the Jyotirlinga and includes all subordinate temples, shrines, subshrines and the ashthan of all other images and deities, mandaps, wells, tanks and other necessary structures and land appurtenant thereto and addition which may be made thereto after the appointed date; (10) Temple Fund means the Temple Fund constituted under section 23,

4. In this Act, Unless the context otherwise requires- (1) appointed date means such date as the State Government may by notification, appoint; (2) archaka means any person who performs or conducts any worship, service, ritual or other religious observances in the Temple and includes a Pujari, Panda, Purohit or Sewak; (3) Board means the Board of Trustees constituted under section 6; (4) Chief Executive officer means the Chief Executive officer appointed under section 16; (5) 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 any one within the precincts of the Temple; (6) Executive Committee means the Executive Committee constituted under section 19; (7) Prescribed means prescribed by rules made or notified order issued by the State Government under this Act; (8) 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; (9) Temple means the Temple of Adi Vishweshwar, popularly known as Sri Kashi Vishwanath Temple, situated in the City of Varanasi 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, as a place of public religious worship of the Jyotirlinga and includes all subordinate temples, shrines, subshrines and the ashthan of all other images and deities, mandaps, wells, tanks and other necessary structures and land appurtenant thereto and addition which may be made thereto after the appointed date; (10) Temple Fund means the Temple Fund constituted under section 23,

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