Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Trustees and their number and term of offices.— (1) 2(a) Where a religious institution included in the list published under section 46 or in respect of which the Assistant Commissioner has no power to appoint trustees, has no hereditary trustee,— (i) in cases falling under clause (i) of section 46, the Joint Commissioner / Deputy Commissioner ; (ii) in cases falling under clause (ii) of section 46, the Commissioner; and (iii) in cases falling under clause (iii) of section 46, the Government, shall constitute a Board of Trustees. Provided that the Board of Trustees constituted under items (i) and (ii) of the clause shall, subject to the provisions of clause ( c ) consist of three persons appointed by the Joint Commissioner / Deputy Commissioner or the Commissioner, as the case may be, of whom, one shall be a member of the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes : Provided further that in addition to the persons appointed by the Joint Commissioner / Deputy Commissioner or the Commissioner under items (i) or (ii) of this clause, as the case may be, the Government may nominate two persons who are qualified for appointments as trustees under this Act, as members of the said Board of Trustees, having regard to the following matters, namely:— (a) the interest of the public generally ; (b) the income and the properties of the religious institutions; (c) the number of worshippers and importance of the religious institutions as a pilgrim center ; and (d) such other matters as may be prescribed.] (b) in respect of all the incorporated and unincorporated Devaswoms in the transferred territory, the 1[Government] shall constitute a single Board of Trustees ; (c) every Board of Trustees constituted under clause (a) or clause (b) shall consist of not less than three and not more than five persons, of whom one shall be a member of the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes: and another one shall be a woman