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(1) Where a religious institution included in the list published under Section 38 or over which no Area Committee has jurisdiction, has no hereditary trustee, the Commissioner shall constitute a Board of Trustees consisting of not less than three and not more than five persons appointed by him. [(2) Where, in the case of any such institution having a hereditary trustee or trustees; the Commissioner after notice to such trustee or trustees, and after such enquiry as he deems adequate, considers for reasons to be recorded, that the affairs of the institution are not, and are not likely to be, properly managed by the hereditary trustee or trustees, the Commissioner may, by order appoint such number of non-hereditary trustees as he thinks necessary, so however that the total number of trustees does not exceed five. (3) Every trustee appointed under sub-section (1) and subject to the result of an application, if any, filed under sub-section (4) every non-hereditary trustee appointed under sub-section (2) shall hold office for a term of 90A[two years], unless in the meanwhile the trustee is removed or dismissed or his resignation is accepted by the Commissioner or he otherwise ceases to be a trustee. [(4) Where the Commissioner by order appoints a non-hereditary trustee or trustees the hereditary trustee or trustees may, within thirty days of the receipt of the order, file an application to the Court to set aside or modify such order. (5) Where a vacancy arises in the office of a non-hereditary trustee appointed under sub-section (2) the Commissioner shall not fill up such a vacancy unless, for reasons to be recorded, he considers it necessary to do so. A non-hereditary trustee appointed in the vacancy shall be deemed to have been appointed under sub-section (2) and the provisions of sub-sections (3) and (4) shall apply accordingly.] Substituted by Act 27 of 1954 Substituted by Act 2 of 2014. Prior to the substitution it reads as under: "five years" Added by Act 27 of 1954