For the purposes of this Act, the following shall be the duties and functions to be performed and powers to be exercised by the Deputy or Assistant Charity Commissioner for the region or sub-region for which he is appointed, namely :-
(a) to keep and maintain such books, entries and other documents as may be prescribed under section 17;
(b) to hold an inquiry under section 19 or 22 for any of the purposes mentioned in the said section ;
(c) to record entries in the register kept under section 17 and to make amendments in the said entries 1[or the cancellation of the entries] under section 22 ;
2[(cc) to send a memorandum under section 28-A] ;
(d) to enter on and inspect any trust property, to call for and inspect any proceedings of a trustee and to call for any return, statement, account or report from trustees or any person connected with a public trust under section 37 ;
(e) to permit inspection of any statement, notice, intimation, account, audit note or any other document;
3[(e-1) to encourage and facilitate the better administration of public trust to make them litigation free ;
(e-2) to accept resignation of a trustee who has submitted it to the trust and not reported by the other trustees and treat it as a report under section 22 and decide the same after making the necessary enquiry therefor ;
(e-3) to frame or modify schemes under section 50A ;
(e-4) to pass appropriate order and make a report under section 55].
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(g) to exercise such other powers and to perform such duties and functions as may be prescribed.
(a) to keep and maintain such books, entries and other documents as may be prescribed under section 17;
(b) to hold an inquiry under section 19 or 22 for any of the purposes mentioned in the said section ;
(c) to record entries in the register kept under section 17 and to make amendments in the said entries 1[or the cancellation of the entries] under section 22 ;
2[(cc) to send a memorandum under section 28-A] ;
(d) to enter on and inspect any trust property, to call for and inspect any proceedings of a trustee and to call for any return, statement, account or report from trustees or any person connected with a public trust under section 37 ;
(e) to permit inspection of any statement, notice, intimation, account, audit note or any other document;
3[(e-1) to encourage and facilitate the better administration of public trust to make them litigation free ;
(e-2) to accept resignation of a trustee who has submitted it to the trust and not reported by the other trustees and treat it as a report under section 22 and decide the same after making the necessary enquiry therefor ;
(e-3) to frame or modify schemes under section 50A ;
(e-4) to pass appropriate order and make a report under section 55].
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(g) to exercise such other powers and to perform such duties and functions as may be prescribed.
Source footnotes
1. These words were inserted by Mah. 39 of 1965, s. 3.2. This clause was inserted by Bom. 6 of 1960, s. 35.
3. Clauses (e-1), (e-2), (e-3), (e-4) were inserted by Mah. 55 of 2017, s. 19.
4. Clause (f) was deleted by Mah. 22 of 1967, s. 7.
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