Power to extend Act to Jain Religious Institutions and Endowments

(1) The Government may, by notification, extend to Jain public religious institutions and endowments, all or any of the provisions of this Act and of any rules made thereunder and thereupon, the provisions so extended shall apply to such institutions and endowments: Provided that before issuing such a notification, the Government shall publish in the *Fort St. George Gazette, a notice of their intentions to do so, fix a period which shall not be less than two months from the date of publication of the notice, for the persons interested in the institutions and endowments concerned to show cause against the issue of the notification and consider their objections, if any. (2) In this Act, wherever the word “Hindu” occurs, it shall, in respect of Jain public religious institutions and endowments to which the provisions of this Act have been extended under sub-section (1) be construed to mean “Jain” unless the context otherwise requires.