(1) The Board shall meet for the transaction of business at such times and places as may be decided by the Board:
Provided that the first meeting of the Board shall be held at such time and place as may be fixed by the Administrator in this behalf.
(2) The Chairman or in his absence any member chosen by the members from amongst themselves shall preside a t a meeting of the Board.
(3) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, all questions which come before any meeting of the Board shall be decided by a majority of votes of the members present, and in the case of equality of votes the Chairman, or, in his absence any other person presiding shall have a second or casting vote.
Meetings of the Board.
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10. Notwithstanding any judgment, decree or order of any court or other authority or any proceeding pending before any court or other authority, or anything contained in any law or rules or bye-laws of the Committee, the entire management and control of the Gurdwaras and Gurdwara property shall, as from the appointed day, be taken over and vested in the Board, Dissolution of the socletv and iransfer of Gu;d\v9ra proyerty.
11. (J) As from the appointed day, the society known as the Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee, Delhi, and registered under the provisions of the Societies Registration Act, 1860, shall stand dissolved and all Gurdwara property, movable and immovable, and all rights, powers and privileges of the said society which immediately before the appointed day belonged to or were vested in the said society shall vest in the Board and shall be applied for the purposes for which the Board is constituted in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
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(2) As from the appointed day all debts and liabilities of the said society shall stand transferred and attached to the Board and thereafter be discharged and satisfied by the Board.
(3) Any will, deed or other instrument whether made or executed before or after the appointed day, which contains any bequests, gifts, or trust in favour of the said society shall, as from the appointed day, be construed as if the Board were therein named instead of the said society.
Duties of the Board. 12. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and the rules made thereunder, it shall be the duty of the Board—
(i) to arrange for the proper performance of religious rites and ceremonies in the Gurdwaras;
(ii) to provide facilities for worship by devotees at the Gurdwaras;
(Hi) to ensure safe custody of its funds, movable properties^ deposits, offerings in cash or kind and management of all Gurdwara property;
(iv) to ensure maintenance of order and discipline and proper hygienic conditions in the Gurdwaras:
(v) to make provision for payment of emoluments to its salaried staff;
(iri) to manage the historic and other Gurdwaras and the Gurdwara property in such a way as to make them inspiring centres of the Sikh tradition, Sikh culture and Sikh religion;
(vii) to spread education, especially the knowledge of Panjabi and Gurmukhi, to establish educational institutions and libraries and to give aid to such institutions and stipends to the studentp, to provide suitable accommodation for the pilgrims, to maintain free kitchen, to open free dispensaries and to do such other religious and charitable acts as the Board thinks fit;
(utii) to render all help in the cause of the uplift of the Sikh, community;
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(ix) to do all such Ui ngs as may be incidental and. conducive to the efficient management of the affairs of Gurdwaras, Qurdwara property or to the convenience of the devotees:
(x) to perform such other functions as may be prescribed by rules by the Administrator for carrying out the purposes of this Ordinance.
13. (I) There shall be a Gurdwara Fund into which all receipts and income of the Gurdwara property shall be credited and out of which all expenses and disbursement of the Board shall be made.
Creation of the Gurd« ara Fund.
(2) The Gurdwara Fund shall be operated and maintained in accordance with the rules made by the Administrator in this behalf.