Section 14: Application of endowment for maintenance and preservation of antiquity

14. Application of endowment for maintenance and preservation of antiquity.—(1) Where any endowment has been created for the maintenance and preservation of any protected antiquity, or for that purpose among others, and the owner or other person competent in this behalf fails in the proper application of such endowment and, when proposed to him by the 1[Director General], refuses or fails to enter into an agreement under section 12, the 1[Director General] may, for the proper application of such endowment or part thereof, institute a suit in the Cour t of the District Judge, or, where the estimated cost of maintaining and preserving the antiquity does not exceed on thousand rupees, make an application to the District Judge. (2) On the bearing of an application under sub­section (1), the District Judge may summon and examine the owner and any person whose evidence appears to him necessary, and may pass an order for the proper application of the endowment or of any part thereof, and any such order may be executed as if it were the decree of a Civil Court.

Effective date: 1975-01-01

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