Muslim Mosques And Charitable Trusts Or Wakfs Act (No. 51 of 1956)

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Muslim Mosques And Charitable Trusts Or Wakfs Act (No. 51 of 1956) - Sect 73

Section - 5

(1) There shall be established for the purposes of this Act a board which shall be called the Mosques and Muslim Charitable Trusts or Wakfs Board and which shall consist of the Commissioner and seven other members appointed by the Minister.

(2) Every member who vacates his office by effluxion of time shall be eligible for reappointment.

5. In section 29-

(a) in subsection (1), there shall be substituted for the words members of the jama'ath of", the words "persons interested in ";

(b) there shall be substituted for subsection (8), the following new subsection: -

	" (8) The interest required in order to entitle any person to be one of the plaintiffs in any action instituted under this section need not be a pecuniary or an immediate interest or such an interest as would entitle the person to take part in the management or superintendence of the shrine or place of religious resort. "; and

" (10) For the purposes of this section, any person who-

(a) is the donor of any property to the shrine or place of religious resort or is the direct male descendant of the donor, or

(b) has during the period of twelve months immediately preceding that date been in the habit of-

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