Joint Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner to decide certain disputes and matters

Subject to the rights of suit or appeal hereinafter provided, the Joint Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner, as the case may be, shall have power to inquire into and decide the following disputes and matters:— (a) whether an institution is a religious institution ; (b) whether a trustee holds or held office as a hereditary trustee ; (c) whether any property or money is a religious endowment ; (d) whether any property or money is a specific endowment ; (e) whether any person is entitled, by custom or otherwise, to any honour, emolument or perquisite in any religious institution ; and what the established usage of a religious institution is in regard to any other matter ; (f) whether any institution or endowment is wholly or partly of a religious or secular character; and whether any property or money has been given wholly or partly for religious or secular uses ; and (g) where any property or money has been given for the support of an institution which is partly of a religious and partly of a secular character, or the performance of any service or charity connected with such an institution or the performance of a charity which is partly of a religious and partly of a secular character or where any property or money given is appropriated partly to religious and partly to secular uses, as to what portion of such property or money shall be allocated to religious uses. (a) directing the recovery of such building or place from any person who may be in possession thereof ; and (b) laying down that it shall be used for religious worship or instruction as before, or if such use is not possible, be utilised for any one or more of the purposes specified in sub-section (1) of section 66. (3) Nothing contained in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall be deemed to authorize the Joint Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner, as the case may be, to pass an order in respect of any property or funds which vested in any person before the 30th September 1951 by the operation of the law of limitation. (4) Every order of the Joint Commissioner or the Deputy Commissioner, as the case may be, under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall be published in the prescribed manner.