Tamil Nadu Vanniyakula Kshatriya Public charitable Trusts and Endowments (Protection and maintenance) Act, 2018
No: 44 Dated: Nov, 30 2018
Tamil Nadu Vanniyakula Kshatriya Public charitable Trusts and Endowments (Protection and maintenance) Act, 2018
(Act No. 44 of 2018)
An Act to provide for protection and maintenance of the public charitable trusts and endowments created and administered by the persons or organisations of Vanniyakula Kshatriya community in the State of Tamil Nadu and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Be it enacted by the Legislative assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the Sixty-ninth year of the republic of India as follows:-
CHAPTER - I
Preliminary
1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This act may be called the Tamil Nadu Vanniyakula Kshatriya Public charitable Trusts and Endowments (Protection and maintenance) Act, 2018.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Tamil Nadu.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification, appoint.
2. application of the Act. - This act shall apply to all public charitable trusts and endowments created and administered by the persons or organisations of Vanniyakula Kshatriya community.
3. Definitions. - 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 Office" 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 used as 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 provided for 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 to attend 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 any charity or the distribution of gifts thereat;
(m) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules;
(n) "Survey Officer" means an officer appointed under sub-section (1) of section 4;
(o) "Trust" means a trust created by a person or group of organisation belonging to Vanniyakula Kshatriya to fulfill charitable purposes as envisaged by the author of the trust;
(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, vannia Gounder, Gounder or Kandar, Padayachi, Palli and 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).