State Act

Maharashtra Public Trusts Act.

3[50A. Power of Charity Commissioner to frame, amalgamate or modify schemes.— (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 50, where the 4[Assistant or Deputy Charity Commissioner] has reason to believe that, in the interest of the proper management or administration of public trust, a scheme should be settled for it, or where two or more persons having interest in a public trust make an application to him in writing in the prescribed manner that, in the interest of the proper management or administration of a public trust, a scheme should be settled for it, the 5[Assistant or Deputy Charity Commissioner] may, if, after giving the trustees of such trust due opportunity to be heard, he is satisfied that it is necessary or expedient so to do, frame a scheme for the management or administration of such public trust. (2) Where the 1[Assistant or Deputy Charity Commissioner] is of opinion that in the interest of the proper management or administration, two or more public trusts may be amalgamated by framing a common scheme for the same, he may, after— (a) Publishing a notice in the Official Gazette 2[and also if necessary in any newspaper which in the opinion of the 3[Assistant or Deputy Charity Commissioner] is best calculated to bring to the notice of persons likely to be interested in the trust] with a wide circulation in the region in which the trust is registered, and (b) giving the trustees of such trusts and all other interested persons due opportunity to be heard, frame a common scheme for the same. (3) The 4[Assistant or Deputy Charity Commissioner] may, at any time, after hearing the trustees, modify the scheme framed by him under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2). 5[(4) The scheme framed under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) or modified under sub-section (3) shall, subject to the decision of the Charity Commissioner under section 70, have effect as a scheme settled or altered, as the case may be, under a decree of a Court under section 50.]