Deputy must ordinarily be a member of the same family to which the representative watandar whose duty it is to officiate

Except as is otherwise provided in the last preceding section and in section 56, and, except as the [State Government] shall by a general or special order from time to time otherwise direct, every deputy appointed under this Act shall be a member of the same family to which the representative watandar whose duty it is to officiate belongs, if there be a member of such family fit and willing to officiate [or, in default of such member, a watandar of the same watan who is fit and willing to officiate and who is descended from the same original watandar as the representative watandar whose duty it is to officiate.]