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(3) Definitions 2. (1) This Act may be called the Sikkim Places of Pilgrimage Management.
It shall extend to the whole of Sikkim.
It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, in the Official Gazette appoint.
In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant the subject or context:-
(a) "Administrative Department" means the Tourism and Civil Aviation Department.
(b) "Committee" means the said Committee or Committees constituted under this Act;
(c) Places of Pilgrimage means and includes Thakur Sari Temple, Gangtok, Sai Mandir, Assangthang, Mungrung 1 Committee Constitution of the Committee Shakti Sthal,Guru Rinpoche at Samdruptse,Tathagata Tsal,Chenrezi Statue, Gyalshing,Mangkhims in Sikkim and such other places as may be notified form time to time.
(d) "prescribed" means prescribed by rule made under this Act;
(e) "fund" means the fund as would be provided for the management of the places of pilgrimage.
(f) "Sevak" means any person, recognized by a competent authority as a sevak or his substitute, appointed to perform any work or duty connected with day to day rituals and puja and conversant with puja, rituals, nitis etc.;
(g) "Year" means the financial year.
As soon as after the commencement of this Act, the State Government shall constitute such Committee or Committees to be called by such nomenclature as may be notified for the management of such places of pilgrimage as would be specified in the notification.
(2) Notwithstanding anything in any other law for the time being in force or custom, usage or contract, deed or engagement, the administration and the governance of the places of pilgrimage and its endowments shall vest in the committee as may be constituted under the provisions of this Act.