The Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Trust (Shirdi) Act, 2004

Preamble

MAHARASHTRA ACT No. XIV of 2004¹

[THE SHREE SAI BABA SANSTHAN TRUST (SHIRDI) ACT, 2004.]

[This Act received the assent of the Governor on the 14^th August 2004 ; assent was first published in the Maharashtra Government Gazette, Part IV, on the 17^th August 2004.]

An Act to re-constitute a public trust of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba Sansthan registered under the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950 under the name "Shirdi Sansthan of Shri Sai Baba" at Shirdi, District Ahmednagar, and to provide for better management, administration, governance and control of the Trust to enable it to undertake wider welfare activities for the public.

WHEREAS the administration of the public trust of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba Sansthan registered under the ²Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950 (Bom. XXIX of 1950), under the name "Shirdi Sansthan of Shri Sai Baba" at Shirdi, District Ahmednagar, popularly known as "Shree Shirdi Sai Baba Sansthan Trust of Shirdi", vests in the Board of Management, under a scheme framed by the City Civil Court, Bombay, in Charity Suit No. 3457 of 1960 under its order dated the 18^th October 1982, confirmed by the High Court of Judicature at Bombay in First Appeal No. 320 of 1983, decided on the 23^rd July 1984;

AND WHEREAS on expiration of the term of five years of the previous Board of Management of Shirdi Sansthan of Shri Sai Baba Trust, the Charity Commissioner has, under his order dated the 31^st August 1999, re-constituted the Board of Management of the said Trust ;

AND WHEREAS being aggrieved by the said order dated the 31^st August 1999 of the Charity Commissioner in the matter of appointment of Trustees, two Writ Petitions No. 2866 and 2867 of 1999 were filed in the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, and the appointment of one of the Trustees has been quashed and set aside by the Hon'ble High Court ;

AND WHEREAS the said Trust has large properties and is very popular and is highly revered and has very large number of devotees all over India ;

AND WHEREAS the Government of Maharashtra considers it expedient that the development and management of this important and popular Trust should not be hampered or in way suffer by avoidable litigation, and that there should be a separate law to re-constitute the said Trust and to provide for the efficient management of the same by a Committee directly under the supervision and control of the State Government to enable the Trust to carry out its charitable activities more effectively and efficiently and to be able to give more facilities for its devotees and to undertake wider welfare activities from its surplus funds for the general public ; it is hereby enacted in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows :-

Sections

Type to filter. 36 sections.

1. 1Short title and commencement
2. 2Definitions
3. 3Reconstitution of Sansthan Trust and transfer to and vesting of properties in that Trust
4. 4Transfer of possession of properties to Sansthan Trust
5. 5Constitution of Committee of Management of Sansthan Trust
6. 6Allowances to member
7. 7Term of office of member
8. 8Conditions for being member
9. 9Disqualification for membership
10. 10Power to appoint new member
11. 11Meeting of Committee and rules of procedure
12. 12Act of Committee not invalid by reason of vacancy or defect
13. 13Chief Executive Officer and other officers of Committee
14. 14Powers and duties of officers of Committee
15. 14APowers for execution of development plan of Shree Sai Baba Mahasamadhi Centenary Celebration
16. 15Terms and conditions of service of Chief Executive Officer and other officers and employees
17. 16Allocation of employees of public trust to Sansthan Trust
18. 17Duties and powers of Committee
19. 18Advisory Council
20. 19Bhakta Mandal
21. 20Trust Fund
22. 21Utilization of Trust Fund
23. 22Management Fund and its utilization
24. 23Suits and other proceedings by or against Trust or Committee
25. 24Continuance of legal proceedings by or against erstwhile public trust and construction of references to that Trust
26. 25Rules
27. 26Powers of State Government to give directions, call for report, documents, etc
28. 27Inspection by Government
29. 28Power of State Government to call for record, etc
30. 29Annual Report of Committee
31. 30Power of State Government to suspend or rescind any resolution or order, etc., of Committee in certain cases
32. 31Members of Committee and officers and employees of Trust to be public servants
33. 32Protection of action taken in good faith
34. 33Act to override other laws, etc
35. 34Dissolution and supersession of Committee
36. 35Removal of difficulties

Rules made under this Act

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