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Special trusts. [1964 : Guj. 34 Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963 this proviso; (b) subject to the condition that reasonable provision shall be made for the performance of all obligations imposed or that may be imposed on it by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force, a municipality may, and where so required by the 47[Director], shall, credit to a separate heading in the municipal accounts any portion of the municipal fund received or set apart by it specially for the purposes of schools or dispensaries or water works or fire- brigades or other such purposes as the 47[Director] in this behalf approves, and the municipality may apply any sums properly so credited exclusively to the special purposes for which such sums were received or set apart; (c) (1) every municipality in which a tax on pilgrims resorting periodically to a shrine within its limits is levied shall, subject to the condition that reasonable provision shall be made for the purposes specified in clause (2), credit the proceeds of the said tax to a separate heading in the municipal account, to be called the "Pilgrim Fund Account." (2) the purposes for which provision shall be made by a municipality before the proceeds of the pilgrim tax are credited to the Pilgrim Fund Accounts shall be the following, namely, the payment to the municipality of such percentage of the proceeds of the said tax as may be determined from time to time by the municipality with the approval of the 47[Director] for (i) making reasonable provision for the performance of all obligations imposed or which may be imposed on it by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force; (ii) such general duties of the municipality as are connected with the health, convenience and safety of the said pilgrims; and (iii) the cost of collection of the said tax. (3) The sums credited under clause (1), shall be devoted to such works conducive to the health, convenience and safety of the said pilgrims as may be approved by the 47[Director].