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a) "beneficiary" means a person or object for whose benefit a wakf is created and includes religious, pious and charitable objects and any other objects of public utility7[sanctioned by the Muslim law];
(b) "bonefit" does not include any benefit which a mutawalli is entitled to claim solely by reason of his being such mutawalli:
(c) "Board" means a Board of Wakfs established under 8[sub-section (1), or as the case may be, sub-section (1A) of section 9-]; 9[(d) ** ** ** * **;] 10[(dd) "Council" means the Central Wakf Council established under section 8A-;]
(e) "member" means a member of the Board and includes the Chairman;
(f) "mutawalli" means any person appointed either verbally or under any deed or instrument by which a wakf has been created or by a competent authority to be the mutawalli of a wakf and includes any11[person who is a mutawalli of a wakf by virtue of any custom or who is a naib-mutawalli, khadim, mejawar, sajjadanishin, amin, or other person appointed by a mutawalli to perform the duties of a mutawalli and, save as otherwise provided in this Act,12[any person, Committee or Corporation for the time being managing or administering any wakf or wakf property:
Provided that no member of a Committee or Corporation shall he deemed to be a mutawalli unless such member is an office bearer of such Committee or Corporation;] 13[(g) "net annual income", in relation to a wakf, means the net annual income determined in accordance with the provisions of the Explanations to sub-section (1) of section 46-.]
(h) "person interested in a wakf" means any person who is entitled to receive any pecuniary or other benefits from the wakf and includes, (i) any person who has a right to worship or to perform any religious rite in a mosque, idgah, imambara, dargah, khangah, maqbara, graveyard or any other religious institution connected with the wakf or to participate in any religious or charitable institutions under the wakf;
(ii) the wakif and any descendant of the wakif and the mutawalli;
(i) "prescribed",14[except in Chapter II-A], means prescribed by rules made by the State Government under this Act and includes the regulations made by the Board under this Act;
(j) "Shia wakf" means a wakf governed by Shia law;
(k) "Sunni wakf" means a wakf governed by Sunni law; 15[(ka) "Survey Commissioner" means the Survey Commissioner of Wakfs appointed under sub-section (1) of