Section 24: Continuance of legal proceedings by or against erstwhile public trust and construction of references to that Trust.

(1) Where the erstwhile public trust by the name of "Shirdi Sansthan of Shree Sai Baba" at Shirdi, District Ahmednagar or any trustee thereof was, immediately before the appointed day, party to any legal proceedings with respect to any property, rights, liabilities or obligations since vested in the re-constituted Trust under section 3 by the name of "the Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Trust (Shirdi)", the said re-constituted Trust or its Committee, shall be deemed to have been substituted for the erstwhile public trust or its trustees, as a party to those proceedings, or added to as a party thereto, as the case may be, and the proceedings shall continue accordingly.

(2) Any reference to the erstwhile public trust or its trustees in any law for the time being in force or in any rule, regulation, notification or order issued thereunder, or in any instrument or other document shall, on and after the appointed day, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to the Trust re-constituted under section 3 or its Committee, as the case may be.