Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Trust (Shridi) Act, 2004
No: 14 Dated: Aug, 17 2004
THE SHREE SAI BABA SANSTHAN TRUST (SHIRDI) ACT, 2004
ACT No. XIV of 2004
An Act to re-constitute a public trust of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba Sansthan registered under the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950 under the name "Shirdi Sansthan of Shri Sai Baba" at Shridi, District Ahmednagar, and to provide for better management, administration, governance and control of the Trust to enable it to undertake wider welfare activities for the public.
WHEREAS the administration of the public trust of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba Sansthan registered under the †Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950, under the name "Shirdi Sansthan of Shri Sai Baba" at Shirdi, District Ahmednagar, popularly known as "Shree Shirdi Sai Baba Sansthan Trust of Shirdi", vests in the Board of Management, under a scheme framed by the City Civil Court, Bombay, in Charity Suit No. 3457 of 1960 under its order dated the 18th October 1982, confirmed by the High Court of Judicature at Bombay in First Appeal No. 320 of 1983, decided on the 23rd July 1984 ;
AND WHEREAS on expiration of the term of five years of the previous Board of Management of Shirdi Sansthan of Shri Sai Baba Trust, the Charity Commissioner has, under his order dated the 31st August 1999, re-constituted the Board of Management of the said Trust ;
AND WHEREAS being aggrieved by the said order dated the 31st August 1999 of the Charity Commissioner in the matter of appointment of Trustees, two Writ Petitions No. 2866 and 2867 of 1999 were filed in the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, and the appointment of one of the Trustees has been quashed and set aside by the Hon’ble High Court ; AND
WHEREAS the said Trust has large properties and is very popular and is highly revered and has very large number of devotees all over India ;
AND WHEREAS the Government of Maharashtra considers it expendient that the development and management of this important and popular Trust should not be hampered or in way suffer by avoidable litigation, and that there should be a separate law to re-constitute the said Trust and to provide for the efficient management of the same by a Committee directly under the supervision and control of the State Government to enable the Trust to carry out its charitable activities more effectively and efficiently and to be able to give more facilities for its devotees and to undertake wider welfare activities from its surplus funds for the general public ;
It is hereby enacted in the Fifty-fifth 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 (Shridi) Act, 2004.
(2) It shall come into force on such *date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Definitions:- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) "Advisory Council'' means the Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Advisory Council constituted under section 18 ;
(b) "appointed day" means the day appointed by the State Government under sub-section (2) of section 1 ;
(c) "Bhakta Mandal" means the Shree Sai Baba Bhakta Mandal referred and recognised under section 19 ;
(d) "Committee" means the Shree Sai Baba Sansthan Management Committee constituted under section 5 ;
(e) "Executive Officer" means the Executive Officer of the Committee ;
(f) "Management Fund" means the Management Fund constituted under section 22 ;
(g) "member" means a member of the Committee and includes the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Commitee ;
(h) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made by the State Government under this Act ;
(i) "regulations" means regulations made by the Committee under this Act ;
(j) "Sansthan" means Shree Shirdi Sai Baba Sansthan belonging to the Shirdi Sai Baba Temple Trust and popularly known as the Shree Shirdi Sai Baba Sansthan Trust of Shirdi ;
(k) "Sansthan Trust" or "Trust" means the Shri Sai Baba Sansthan Trust (Shirdi) constituted under section 3 ;
(k1) "Scrutiny Committee", means the Scrutiny Committee constituted under the proviso to sub-section (2) of section 21;
(l) "Trust Fund" means the fund of the Sansthan Trust constituted under section 20 ;
(m) words or expressions used in this Act, but not defined, shall have the meanings, respectively assigned to them in the *Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950