(1) Save as otherwise provided in this Ordinance, no person shall—
(a) make, manufacture, prepare or process any primary gold, or
(b) make, manufacture, prepare, repair, polish or process any ornament, or
(c) make, manufacture, prepare, repair, polish or process any article, or
(d) make, manufacture or prepare anything containing, gold of any purity, whether such purity exceeds nine carats or not, or
(e) melt, assay, refine, alloy or extract gold of any purity, whether such purity exceeds nine carats or not, or subject such gold to any other process, unless he is authorised so to do by the Administrator.
(2) Every authorisation made under sub-section (2) shall be subject to such conditions (including conditions as to the payment of any fee or charges of supervision) and restrictions aa may be specified therein.
CHAPTER IV POSSESSION OF GOLD BY PUBLIC RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
13. Nothing in clause (!) of sub-section (1) of section 9 shall apply to any primary gold which forms part of any structure or any other construction or appendage within the precincts of a temple, church, mosque, gurdwara or any other place of public religious worship it sucn primary gold has been included In a declaration.
Ban on possession of primary gold when not to apply to primary gold which forma a part of structure, etc., of public religlouu institutions.
SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY 365 Disposal of gold received as offerings.
14. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Ordinance, a public religious institution may receive gold as offerings:
Provided that—
(a) where any article is received by such institution, as an offering, such article may be—
(i) kept by such institution for its use, or
(ii) sold to a licensed dealer or refiner, or
(iii) converted into ornaments for the deity or idol, or
(iv) converted, with the previous permission of the Administrator, into any new article which may be required for worship in the institution or for use in, or decoration of, the structure, other construction or appendage within the precincts of the institution;
(b) where any primary gold is received by such institution, as an offering, the institution shall dispose of such primary gold b y -
(i) converting the same, with the previous permission of the Administrator, into ornaments for the deity or idol, or into new articles which may be required for worship in the institution or for use in, or decoration of, the structure or other construction or appendage within the precincts of the institution or
(ii) selling the same to such licensed dealer or refiner as may be specified, and under such conditions, limitations and restrictions as may be imposed, by the Administrator.
Submission of monthly accounts.
15. Without prejudice to the provisions of Chapter V, every public religious institution shall submit, in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed to the Administrator monthly accounts of gold received by it as offerings and disposed of by it.
Responsibility of the person In charge of the institution.
16. The person in charge of1 the management of any public religious institution shall be responsible for anything done or omitted to be done by such institution in relation to any gold.
Declarations as to articles or ornament?,
CHAPTER V DECLARATIONS