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Section 70A: Charity Commissioner to call for and examine record and proceedings before Deputy or Assistant Charity Commissioner.

Maharashtra Public Trusts Act.State Act of Maharashtra · Act 29 of 1950

[70A. Charity Commissioner to call for and examine records and proceeding before Deputy or Assistant Charity Commissioner.- (1) The Charity Commissioner may in any of the cases mentioned in section 70, [either suo motu or on application] call for and examine the record and proceedings of such case before any Deputy or Assistant Charity Commissioner for the purpose of satisfying himself as to the correctness of any finding or order recorded or passed by the Deputy or Assistant Charity Commissioner and may either annul, reverse, modify or confirm the said finding or order or may direct the Deputy or Assistant Charity Commissioner to make further inquiry or take such additional evidence as he may think necessary or he may himself take such additional evidence :

Provided that the Charity Commissioner shall not record or pass any orders without giving the party affected thereby an opportunity of being heard.

(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall entitle the Charity Commissioner to call for and examine the record of any case-

(a) during the period in which an appeal under section 70 can lie against any finding recorded by the Assistant or Deputy Charity Commissioner in such case, or

[(b) in which an order has been passed in an appeal made under section 70.]

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Where this provision sits

ActMaharashtra Public Trusts Act.
Section70A
Marginal noteCharity Commissioner to call for and examine record and proceedings before Deputy or Assistant Charity Commissioner.
JurisdictionState of Maharashtra
StatusIn force as published by the source
Judgments citing it2

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. 59 of 1954. Section 70A was inserted by Bom. 59 of 1954, s. 8.
  • inserted, Mah. 20 of 1971. These words were inserted by Mah. 20 of 1971, s. 45.
  • substituted, Mah. 55 of 2017. Clause (b) was substituted by Mah. 55 of 2017, s. 22.
  • omitted, Mah. 55 of 2017. Section 71 was deleted by Mah. 55 of 2017, s. 23.
  • omitted, Mah. 55 of 2017. Section 72 was deleted by Mah. 55 of 2017, s. 24.

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