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Definitions :– In this Act unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context– (i) “Assistant Commissioner” means an Assistant Commissioner appointed under Section 5; (ii) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner appointed under 1[Section-4]; (iii) “Collector” in any provision under this Act includes (a) any Deputy Collector who is specially empowered by the State Government to discharge any of the functions of a Collector under that provision; and (b) any Deputy Collector to whom the Collector may, by general or special order, transfer any of his functions under that provision; 2[xxx] 3[(iv) “Deputy Commissioner” means the Deputy Commissioner appointed under Section 5 :] 4[(v) “Endowment Fund” means the Odisha Hindu Religious Endowments Administration Fund constituted under Section 63;] (vi) “Hereditary Trustee” means the Trustee of a Religious institution succession to whose Office devolves by hereditary right since the time of the founder or is regulated by custom or is specifically provided for by the founder, so long as such scheme of succession is in force; 2[xxx] (vii) “Math” means an institution for the promotion of the Hindu religion presided over by a person whose duty is to engage himself in spiritual service or who exercises or claims to exercise spiritual headship over a body of disciples and succession to whose Office devolves in accordance with the directions of the founder of the institution or is regulated by custom and includes places of Religious worship other than a temple and also places of instruction or places for the maintenance of Vidyarthis or places for rendering charitable or Religious services in general which are or may be appurtenant to such institution; (viii) “non-Hereditary Trustee” means a Trustee who is not a hereditary Trustee; (ix) 1[xxx] (x) “person having interest” means - (a) in the case of a math a disciple of the math or a person 2[at the Religious persuasion] to which the math belongs; (b) in the case of temple, a person who visits or who is entitled to visit the temple for darsan of the deity or attend at the performance of worship or service in the temple or who is in the habit of attending such performance or of partaking in the benefit of the distribution of gifts thereat and in the case of a specific endowment, a person who visits or who is entitled to attend at or is in the habit of attending the performance of the service or charity, or who is entitled to partake or is in the habit of partaking in the benefit of the charity; (xi) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made by the State Government under this Act; (xii) “Religious Endowment” or “Endowment” means all property belonging to or given or endowed for the support of maths or temples or given or endowed for the performance of any service or charity connected therewith or of any other Religious charity and includes the institution concerned and the premises thereof and also all properties used for the purposes or benefit of the institution and includes all properties acquired from the income of the endowed property; Provided that gifts of immovable properties made as personal gifts to hereditary Trustee of a math or temple or the archaka, sevaka, service-holder or other employee of a Religious institution shall not be so included, if the donee has been possessing and enjoying the same as a separate and distinct identity all long; Explanation I :– Any jagir or inam granted to an archaka, sevaka, service- holder or other employee of a Religious institution for the performance of any service or charity in or connected with a Religious institution shall not be deemed to be a personal gift to the said archaka, service-holder or employee but shall be deemed to be a Religious endowment.