(1) There shall be established a Committee to be called the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee for the proper management and control of the Gurdwaras and Gurdwara properties within the State of Haryana with effect from the date, which the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
(2) The Committee shall be a body corporate with the name aforesaid having perpetual succession and a common seal and shall by such name sue and be sued.
(3) The Committee shall have its Head Office at Kurukshetra and regional offices at Panchkula and Jind.
Composition of Committee.
4. The Committee shall consist of,—
(a) forty members to be elected from various wards to which the entire State shall be divided in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
(b) nine members to be co-opted by the elected members of the Committee referred to in clause (a) in the manner hereinafter:—
(i) two members shall be co-opted from amongst Sikh women;
(ii) three members shall be co-opted from the persons belonging to Scheduled Castes and Backward Class category;
(iii) two members shall be co-opted from amongst the General category having extensive knowledge of Sikh tenets;
(iv) two members shall be co-opted from amongst the Presidents of the registered “Singh Sabhas” in the State:
Provided that co-opted members shall have the right to vote for the purpose of election of office bearers and other members of the Executive Board:
Provided further that the term of office of coopted members shall be co-terminus with the elected members of the Committee.
Term of office. 5. (1) Save as otherwise provided in this section, the term of office of a member of the Committee shall be five years and shall commence from the date on which the first meeting of the Committee is held under section 15.
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(2) When a vacancy occurs in the Committee owing to death, resignation or otherwise of a member, a new member shall be elected or coopted, as the case may be, in the same manner, in which the member whose seat is to be filled was elected or co-opted and every such member shall continue to hold office so long only, as the member who elected or co-opted would have been entitled to hold office, if the vacancy had not arisen.
(3) The Committee members shall continue in office until the notification of election or co-option of his successor is published under section 12.