Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
The Board may, on receipt of a report from the Devaswom Commissioner after such enquiry as he may deem fit, declare that the purpose of a Hindu Religious Endowment falling under the definition in Section 2, clause (b) has from the beginning been, or has subsequently become, impossible of realisation, or that the machinery for effectuating the original purpose of the endowment has failed or no longer exists, or that, after satisfying adequately the purposes of the endowment and after setting apart a sufficient sum for the repair and renovation of the buildings connected with the endowment, there is a surplus which is not required for such purposes; and may, by such order, direct that the amount of the endowment, or such surplus as is declared to be available, as the case may be, be appropriated to religious, educational or charitable purposes not inconsistent with the objects of such endowment: Provided that in the case of an institution founded and maintained by a community, the amount of the endowment or the surplus shall, as far as possible, be utilised for the benefit of the community for the purposes mentioned above. (2) It shall be competent for the Board, when giving direction under sub-section (1), to determine what portion of such amount or surplus shall be retained as a reserve fund for the institution and to direct the remainder to be appropriated to the purposes specified in that sub-section. (3) The Board may at any time by order and in the manner provided in sub-section (1) modify or cancel an order passed under that sub-section. (4) All orders passed under this section shall be published in the [Kerala Government Gazette.] Substituted by Kerala Law Adaptation of Laws Order 1956.