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and includes any additional or assistant survey Commissioner of Wakfs;
(kb) "Tribunal", in relation to any area, means the Tribunal, constituted under sub-section (1) of section 55-. having jurisdiction in relation to that area;';]
(l) "wakf" means the permanent dedication by a person professing Islam16[or any other person] of any movable or immovable property for any purpose recognised by the Muslim law as pious, religious or charitable and includes-
(i) a wakf user17[but such wakf shall not cease to be a wakf by reason only of the user having ceased irrespective of the period of such cesser;] 18[(ii) grants (including mashrut-ul-khidmat19[muafies, khairati, qazi services, madad-mash]) for any purpose recognised by Muslim Law as pious, religious or charitable; and] 20["(iii) a wakf-alal-aulad;";] 21["Provided that in the case of a dedication by a person not professing Islam, the Wakf shall be void if, on the death of such person, any objection to such dedication is raised by one or more of his legal representatives;";] 22[(la) "Wakf Commissioner" means the Wakf Commissioner appointed under sub-section (1) of section 21-;]
(m) "wakf deed" means any deed or instrument by which a wakf has been created and includes any valid subsequent deed or instrument by which any of the terms of the original dedication have been varied.