(1) This Act may be called the Mahajati Sadan Act, short title
1949. and.
commence.
1 (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Provincial meat.
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in Definitions.
the subject or context,—
(a) "the Board" means the Board of trustees for the Mahajati Sadan constituted under this Act,
(b) "Collector" means the First Land Acquisition Collector, Calcutta, I of (a) "person interested" has the same meaning as in the 1894, Land Acquisition Act, 1894, 1The Act came into force on the let May, 1049, side Government of West Bengal, Judicial Department, notification No. 2186J., dated the 23rd April, 1949.
Incorporation of Trustees.
2 The Mahajati Simian Act, 1949.
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(d) the expression "purposes of the Mahajati Sadan" means purposes relating to the erection, equipment, maintenance, repairs, .additions, alterations, management, control, use or application of the Mahajati Sadan or of any property or Fund held for or in connection with the Mahajati Sadan and includes the purposes ref erred to in clause
(i) of section 8,
(e) "trustee" means a member of the Board.
3. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the entire management and control of the Mahajati Sadan shall, on and from the date on which the notification referred to in section 8 is published in the Official Gazette, be vested in a Board to be called "the Trustees for the Mahajati Sadan" and the Board shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to acquire and hold property both movable and immovable and to enter into contracts and do all acts necessary and consistent with the purposes of this Act and shall by the said name sue and be sued.