State Act

The Koodalmanickam Devaswom Act, 1971 (No.7 of 1971)

This Act was repealed on a date we do not have by the Koodalmanickam Devaswom Act, 2005 (2 of 2007), s.39(1); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

4 Composition of Committee.—(1) The Committee shall consist of the following members, namely :— (a) the Kaimal, who shall be the Chairman : Provided that if the Kaimal is unable to function as the Chairman for any reason or the office of the Kaimal falls vacant, the Government may nominate any person professing the Hindu religion to be the Chairman for the period during which the Kaimal is unable to function as Chairman or the office is vacant, as the case may be, subject to a maximum period of three years ; (b) the Administrator, ex officio ; (c) the Commissioner of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments appointed under the Madras Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Act, 1951 (Madras Act XIX of 1951), ex officio ; (d) the President of the Cochin Devaswom Board. ex officio ; (e) the District Collector, Trichur, or if he is not a person professing the Hindu religion, any officer professing the Hindu religion and not below the rank of Deputy Collector nominated by the District Collector in this behalf, ex officio ; (f) four persons professing the Hindu religion nominated by the Government (2) A person shall be disqualified for being nominated as Chairman under the proviso to clause (a) of sub-section (1) or as member under clause (f) of that sub-section, if he is subject to any of the disqualifications mentioned in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of sub-section (3) of section 5.