Appointments etc., of Commissioner, Additional Commissioner, Regional Joint Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner

(1) Subject to the provisions of section 4, the Government shall appoint a Commissioner, Additional Commissioner and such number of Regional Joint Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners and Assistant Commissioners as they think fit for the purpose of exercising the powers and performing the functions conferred on or entrusted to them by or under this Act. (2) The Commissioner, the Additional Commissioner and every Regional Joint Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner appointed under sub-section (1) exercising the powers and performing the functions as aforesaid in respect of religious institutions or endowments, shall be a person professing Hindu religion and shall cease to exercise those powers and perform those functions when he ceases to profess that religion. (3) The conditions of service of the officers appointed under sub-section (1), shall be such as may be determined by the Government. (4) The officers appointed under sub-section (1) shall be the employees of the Government and their salaries, allowances, pensions and other remuneration shall be paid in the first instance out of the Consolidated Fund of the State and subsequently reimbursed from the Endowments Administration Fund. (5) The Government may direct the Commissioner, Additional Commissioner and every Regional Joint Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner appointed under sub-section (1) to exercise the powers and perform, the functions conferred on or entrusted to the Commissioner, Additional Commissioner or Regional Joint Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner, as the case may be, by or under this Act in respect of charitable or religious institutions or endowments.