No: 48 Dated: Aug, 19 2017

Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Trust (Shirdi) Act, 2004

Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Trust (Shirdi) (Amendment) Act, 2017

ACT NO. XLVIII OF 2017

    An Act further to amend the Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Trust (Shirdi) Act, 2004.

    WHEREAS both Houses of the State Legislature were not in session ;

    AND WHEREAS the Governor of Maharashtra was satisfied that circumstances existed which rendered it necessary for him to take immediate action further to amend the Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Trust (Shirdi) Act, 2004, for the purposes hereinafter appearing ; and, therefore, promulgated the Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Trust (Shirdi) (Amendment) Ordinance, 2017, on the 13th July 2017 ;

    AND WHEREAS it is expedient to replace the said Ordinance by an Act of the State Legislature;

It is hereby enacted in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows :—

1. Short title and commencement:- (1) This Act may be called the Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Trust (Shirdi)(Amendment) Act, 2017. 

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 13th July 2017.

2. Amendment of section 2 of Mah. XIV of 2004:- In section 2 of the Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Trust (Shirdi) Act, 2004 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”), after clause (c), the following clause shall be inserted, namely :—

“ (c-1) “ Chief Executive Officer ” means the Chief Executive Officer of the Committee;”.

3. Amendment of section 11 of Mah. XIV of 2004:- In section 11 of the principal Act,—

(a) to sub-section (2), the following proviso shall be added, namely :—

“Provided that, when a quorum is required but not present, the presiding authority shall adjourn the meeting for thirty minutes and the business which would have been brought before the original meeting had there been a quorum thereat, shall be brought before the adjourned meeting, and may be disposed of in such adjourned meeting, whether there be a quorum present or not. ” ;

(b) in sub-section (5), for the words “ the Executive Officer ” the words “ the Chief Executive Officer ” shall be substituted.

4. Amendment of section 13 of Mah. XIV of 2004:- In section 13 of the principal Act,—

(a) in sub-section (1),—

(i) for the words “ the Executive Officer ” the words “ the Chief Executive Officer ” shall be substituted ;

(ii) in the proviso, for the words “ the Executive Officer ”, where they occur, the words “ the Chief Executive Officer ” shall be substituted ;

(b) for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely :—

“(2) The Chief Executive Officer shall be selected from amongst the officers from the cadre of Indian Administrative Services :

Provided that, such officer shall be a devotee of Shree Sai Baba and shall make such declaration in the prescribed form :

Provided further that, the officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Services appointed as the Executive Officer prior to the date of commencement of the Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Trust (Shirdi) (Amendment) Act, 2017, and working on that date shall be deemed to have been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer under this section.”;

(c) in sub-section (3), for the words “ the Executive Officer ”, at both the places where they occur, the words “ the Chief Executive Officer ” shall be substituted ;

(d) in sub-section (4), for the words “ the Executive Officer ” the words “ the Chief Executive Officer ” shall be substituted ;

(e) in the marginal note, for the words “ Executive Officer ” the words “ Chief Executive Officer” shall be substituted.

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