Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) “Administrative Officer” means an officer appointed by the Board under sub-section (1) of section 34; (b) “beneficiary” means a person or an institution for whose benefit a trust or endowment is created and includes charitable objects and any other objects of public utility; (c) “Board” means the Board constituted under section 8; (d) “Chief Administrative Officer” means the officer appointed under sub-section (1) of section 19; (e) “Chairperson” means the Chairperson appointed under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 9; (f) “charitable purpose” includes relief of the poor, education, medical relief, advancement of any other object of utility or welfare or the like purposes to the general public or a section thereof; (g) “Court” means,- (i) in relation to a property of the trust and endowment situated in the city of Chennai, the Chennai City Civil Court; (ii) in relation to a property of the trust and endowment situated elsewhere, the Court of Civil Judge (Senior Division) having jurisdiction over the area in which the property of the trust and endowment is situated, or if there is no such Court, the District Court having such jurisdiction; (iii) in relation to a property of trust and endowment situated within the ambit of two or more Courts, any Court which would have jurisdiction as aforesaid in relation to either all or any of such properties; (h) “endowment” means all property given or endowed for the benefit of, or usedas of right by, the Vanniyakula Kshatriya community or any section thereof for the support or maintenance of objects of utility to the said community or section, such as rest-houses, choultries, patasalas, schools and colleges, houses for feeding the poor and institutions for the advancement of education, medical relief and public health or other objects of a like nature; and includes the institution concerned; (i) “Government” means the State Government; (j) “hereditary trustee” means the trustee of a charitable trust, the succession to whose office devolves by hereditary right or is regulated by usage or is specifically providedfor by the founder, so long as such scheme of succession is in force; (k) “member” includes the member, ex-officio; Member Secretary and Chairperson of the Board; (l) “person interested” means any person who is entitled to receive any pecuniary or other benefits from the trust or endowment and includes a person who is entitled toattend or is in the habit of attending the performance of service or charity connected with the institution or who is entitled to partake or is in the habit of partaking in the benefit of anycharity or the distribution of gifts thereat; (m) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules; (n) “Survey Officer” means an officer appointed under sub-section (1) ofsection 4; (o) “Trust” means a trust created by a person or group of organization belonging to Vanniyakula Kshatriya to fulfill charitable purposes as envisaged by the author of thetrust; (p) “trustee or administrator” means any person appointed to manage or administer any trust or endowment; (q) “Vanniyakula Kshatriya” means the community of Vanniyakula Kshatriya (including Vanniyar, Vanniya, VanniaGounder, Gounder or Kandar, Padayachi, Palliand Agnikula Kshatriya), as notified by the Government under the Tamil Nadu Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Reservation of seats in Educational Institutions and of appointments or posts in the services under the State) Act, 1993 (Tamil Nadu Act 45 of 1994).