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 REGISTERED No. D-28

The Gazette of India

EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

NEW DELHI, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1949

PART IV

Acts of the Dominion Legislature assented to by the Governor General

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

MINISTRY OF LAW

New Delhi, the 14th February, 1949

The following Act of the Dominion Legislature received the assent of the Governor-General on the 14th February, 1949, and is hereby published for general information: —

Act No. II OF 1949

An Act to provide for the vesting of certain properties belonging to the States of Mangrol and Manavadar in Kathiawar in the Managers of the said States.

WHEREAS the administration of the States of Mangrol and Manavadar has been taken over by the Central Government;

AND WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the vesting of certain properties belonging to the said States in the Managers thereof appointed by or on behalf of the Central Government and for certain matters incidental thereto;

It is hereby enacted as follows:—

1. Short title.—This Act may be called the Mangrol and Manavadar (Administration of Property) Act, 1949.

2. Definition.—In this Act, "Manager" means the Manager for the time being of the State of Mangrol or the State of Manavadar, as the case may be, appointed by, or on behalf of, the Central Government.

3. Vesting of property in Manager.—Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force or in any instrument or other document whatsoever, the properties described in the Schedule, which stand in the name of the Sheikh of Mangrol or in the name of the Khan of Manavadar, whether in his personal capacity or as the legal representative of any deceased person or in any other capacity, or the Begum Sahiban Fatma, or of any karbhari or other officer of Mangrol or Manavadar in his official capacity, or in the names of more than one of them, shall be deemed to have vested and always to have been vested on and from the 1st day of November, 1947, as follows. namely—

(a) if the properties are included in Part I of the Schedule, then in the Manager of the State of Mangrol, and

(b) if the properties are included in Part IT of the Schedule, then in the Manager of the State of Manavadar.

4. Powers of Manager.—The Manager shall have and exercise, in relation to properties vested in him under section 3, all the rights, powers and authority which a full owner has or exercises in relation to his own property:

Provided that where any of the said properties was, immediately before the first day of November 1947, subject to any trust lawfully created, the Manager shall in the exercise of his powers in relation to such property be bound by the forms of that trust.

5. Payment to Manager to be a discharge of obligations,—Any payment made to the Manager in the discharge of any of the obligations in relation to (35)