Claim for compensation by hereditary office-holder of a gurdwara notified under section 7 or his presumptive successor; signing and verification of petitions under sub-section (1)

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(1) Any past or present hereditary office-holder of a gurdwara in respect of which a notification has been published under the provisions of sub-section (3) of section 7 or a presumptive successor of such office-holder may forward to the [State] Government through the [appropriate Secretary to Government], so as to reach the Secretary within ninety days from the date of such publication, a petition claiming to be awarded compensation on the grounds that such office-holder has been unlawfully removed from his office after the first day of January, 1920, [or, in the case of the extended territories, after the 1st day of November, 1956, as the case may be], and before the date of such publication; and that such office-holder or his presumptive successor has suffered or will suffer pecuniary loss if the gurdwara is declared to be a Sikh Gurdwara.
(2) A petition forwarded under the provisions of sub-section (1), shall be signed and verified by the person forwarding it in the manner provided in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, for the signing and verification of plaints.

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