Section 50A: Power of Charity Commissioner to frame, amalgamate or modify schemes.
Maharashtra Public Trusts Act.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 29 of 1950
[50A. Power of Charity Commissioner to frame, amalgamate or modify schemes.- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 50, where the [Assistant or Deputy Charity Commissioner] has reason to believe that, in the interest of the proper management or administration of public trust, a scheme should be settled for it, or where two or more persons having interest in a public trust make an application to him in writing in the prescribed manner that, in the interest of the proper management or administration of a public trust, a scheme should be settled for it, the [Assistant or Deputy Charity Commissioner] may, if, after giving the trustees of such trust due opportunity to be heard, he is satisfied that it is necessary or expedient so to do, frame a scheme for the management or administration of such public trust.
(2) Where the [Assistant or Deputy Charity Commissioner] is of opinion that in the interest of the proper management or administration, two or more public trusts may be amalgamated by framing a common scheme for the same, he may, after-
(a) Publishing a notice in the Official Gazette [and also if necessary in any newspaper which in the opinion of the [Assistant or Deputy Charity Commissioner] is best calculated to bring to the notice of persons likely to be interested in the trust] with a wide circulation in the region in which the trust is registered, and
(b) giving the trustees of such trusts and all other interested persons due opportunity to be heard,
frame a common scheme for the same.
(3) The [Assistant or Deputy Charity Commissioner] may, at any time, after hearing the trustees, modify the scheme framed by him under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2).
[(4) The scheme framed under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) or modified under sub-section (3) shall, subject to the decision of the Charity Commissioner under section 70, have effect as a scheme settled or altered, as the case may be, under a decree of a Court under section 50.]
Power of Charity Commissioner to frame, amalgamate or modify schemes.
Jurisdiction
State of Maharashtra
Status
In force as published by the source
Judgments citing it
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How this provision has been amended
Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.
inserted, Bom. 6 of 1960. This section was inserted by Bom. 6 of 1960, s. 27.
substituted, Mah. 55 of 2017. These words were substituted for the words "Charity Commissioner" by Mah. 55 of 2017, s. 14(a).
substituted, Mah. 55 of 2017. These words were substituted for the words "Charity Commissioner" by Mah. 55 of 2017, s. 14(a).
substituted, Mah. 55 of 2017. These words were substituted for the words "Charity Commissioner" by Mah. 55 of 2017, s. 14(a).
substituted, Mah. 20 of 1971. These words were substituted for the words and brackets "and also in at least two newspapers (one in English and the other in the language of the region)" by Mah. 20 of 1971, s. 35.
substituted, Mah. 55 of 2017. These words were substituted for the words "Charity Commissioner" by Mah. 55 of 2017, s. 14(a).
substituted, Mah. 55 of 2017. These words were substituted for the words "Charity Commissioner" by Mah. 55 of 2017, s. 14(a).
substituted, Mah. 55 of 2017. This sub-section was substituted by Mah. 55 of 2017, s. 14(b).
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