Bare ActsThe West Bengal Evacuees ( Administration Of Property ) Act, 1949

Section 3

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(1) The Provincial Government may, if it deems tion and just and expedient, by notification in the Official Gazette, dissolution - constitute an Evacuee Property Management Board for any of Boards. district or districts or part or parts thereof. (2) A Board shall consist of a Chairman and two or four other members, as the Provincial Government may think fit. (3) The Chairman and other members of a Board shall be appointed by the Provincial Government from among the members of the minority community. (4) In deciding whether it is expedient that a Board should be constituted for any district or districts or part or parts thereof and in selecting the Chairman and other members of such Board, the Provincial Government shall consider the views of evacuees owning property or carrying on business in such district or districts or part or parts thereof, in such manner as may be prescribed. (5) Every Board shall be a body corporate by the name of "the Evacuee Property Management Board of (name of the area)" and shall have perpetual succession and a com- mon seal and shall by the said name sue and be sued. (6) The Provincial Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, dissolve a Board if— (a) in its opinion the management by the Board of the property vested in it under sub-section (5) of section 8 is financially unsound or otherwise _ unsatisfactory; or (b) no suitable person is available for filling a vacancy in the office of a member or of the Chairman. (7) The Provincial Government may, if it so thinks fit, by notification in the O fficial Gazette, dissolve a Board at any time after one year from the date on which the Board was constituted. (8) Where a Board is dissolved under sub-section (6) or sub-section (7) the Provincial Government shall appoint a liquidator. (9) A liquidator appointed under sub-section (8) shall have powers to institute or defend any suit or prosecution or other legal proceedings, civil or criminal, in the name or on behalf of the evacuee whose property had vested in the Board and to carry on the business of such evacuee se far as may be necessary for the winding up of the same and to perform such other functions as the Provincial Government may direct. Resigna-

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