section 4
Establishment of Trustee Committee
The Maharashtra Advocated Welfare Fund Act, 1981General198130 sections
Statutory text
- (1) The State Government shall, by notification in the Official Gazette, establish, with effect from such date as may be specified therein, a Committee to be called the Maharashtra Advocates Welfare Fund Trustee Committee.
- (2) The Trustee Committee shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to contract and shall by the said name sue and be sued.
- (3) The Trustee Committee shall consist of the following members, namely:—
- (a) the Advocate General of Maharashtra, who shall be the Chairman of the Trustee Committee, ex-officio;
- (b) the Secretary to Government, Law and Judiciary Department of the Government of Maharashtra, ex-officio;
- (c) three members nominated by the State Government;
- (d) two members of the Bar Council nominated by the Bar Council;
- (e) the accountant of the Bar Council, who shall be the treasurer of the Trustee Committee, ex-officio; and
- (f) the Secretary of the Bar Council, who shall be the Secretary of the Trustee Committee, ex-officio.
- (4) A member nominated by the State Government under clause
- (c) of sub-section
- (3) shall hold office for a term of four years, unless the State Government terminates his nomination earlier or he is removed under sub-section
- (2) of section 5 or he resigns his membership and his resignation is accepted by the State Government under sub-section
- (1) of section 6.
- (5) A member nominated by the Bar Council under clause
- (d) of sub-section
- (3) shall hold office for a term of four years or for the duration of his membership in the Bar Council, whichever is less, unless he is removed under sub-section
- (2) of section 5 or he resigns his membership and his resignation is accepted by the Bar Council under sub-section
- (1) of section 6.
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