section 12
Supersession and reconstitution of Board or Committee and removal of members
The Odisha Hindu Religious Endowments (Amendment) Act, 2018Civil201889 sections
Statutory text
- (1) If in the opinion of the State Government, the Board or any Committee fails in the due performance of its duties or abuses the powers vested in it, they may, after giving the Board or, as the case may be, the Committee an opportunity of showing cause within a period not exceeding two months and after considering the cause, if any, shown, supersede the Board or Committee and shall reconstitute it within six months.
- (2) During the period intervening the date of supersession and the date of reconstitution of the Board or, as the case may be, the Committee the powers and functions of the Board or Committee shall be exercised and performed by such officer as the State Government may appoint in that behalf.
- (3) The State Government may remove any non-official member of the Board or of any Committee, if he—
- (a) fails, without excuse sufficient in the opinion of the State Government, to attend three consecutive meetings of the Board or the Committee, as the case may be ;
- (b) refuses to act or is incapable of acting or acts in a manner which the State Government, after hearing any explanation that he may offer, consider to be prejudicial to the interests of religious institutions ; or
- (c) is or becomes subject to any of the disqualifications specified in section 8.
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