(1) This Ordinance may be called the Delhi Sikh Gurdwaras (Management) Ordinance, 1971.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
Short title and commencement.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) "Administrator" means the Administrator of the Union territory of Delhi appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution;
(b) "appointed day" means the date of commencement of this Ordinance;
(c) "Board" means the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Board constituted under section 3;
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(d) "Committee" means the Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee Delhi, a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860; 21 of t86c
(e) "Gurdwaras" means the Sikh Gurdwaras situated in the Union territory of Delhi as were, immediately before the appointed day, being managed by or affiliated to the Committee;
(/) "Gurdwara property" means,—
(i) all movable and immovable property which, immediately before the appointed day, vested or was kept in deposit in the name of the Committee,
(ii) all property which stands in the name of the Gurdwaras or in the name of present or old managers of the historic Gurdwaras,
(iii) all offerings in cash or kind made in various Gurdwaras, {iv) all property, cash and kind, movable as well as immovable that rnay be acquired by purchase, exchange or otherwise by the Gurdwaras from time to time,
(u) all grants, donations or contributions made from time to time by Government or any other authority to the Gurdwaras;
(g) "Sikh" means a person who professes -the Sikh religion or, in the case of a deceased person, who professed the Sikh religion or was known to be a Sikh during his lifetime. If any question arises as to whether any living person is or is not a Sikh, he shall be deemed respectively to be or not to be a Sikh according as he makes or refuses to make in such manner as the Administrator may prescribe by rules the following declaration: — "I solemnly affirm that I am a Sikh, that I believe in the Guru Granth Sahib, that I believe in the Ten Gurus, and that I have no other religion.".
Incorporation of the Board.