(1) Where a mutawalli refuses to pay or fails to pay any revenue, cess, rates or taxes due to the Government or any local authority, the Board may discharge dues from the 1 [Waqf] Fund and may recover the amount so paid from the 1 [waqf] property and may also recover damages not exceeding twelve and a half per cent. of the amount so paid.
1. Subs. by Act 27 of 2013, s. 4, for “wakf” (w.e.f. 1-11-2013).
2. Subs. by, s. 35, ibid., for “A lease or sub-lease for any period exceeding three years” (w.e.f. 1-11-2013).
3. Ins. by s. 35, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-11-2013).
4. Subs. by s. 35, ibid., for “A lease or sub-lease for any period exceeding one year and not exceeding three years” (w.e.f. 1-11-2013).
5. The words “or sub-lease” omitted by s. 35, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-11-2013).
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(2) Any sum of money due under sub-section (1) may, on a certificate issued by the Board after giving the mutawalli concerned an opportunity of being heard, be recovered in the same manner as an arrear of land revenue.