Wakf Act, 1954 Section 9

1) With effect from such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf, there shall be established a Board of Wakfs under such name as may be specified in the notification. 44[(1A) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) if the Shia Wakfs in any State constitute in number more than fifteen per cent. of all the Wakfs in the State, or if the income of properties of the Shia Wakfs in the State constitutes more than fifteen per cent. of the total income of the properties of all the Wakfs in the State, the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, establish a Board of Wakfs each for Sunni Wakfs or Shia Wakfs under, such names as may be specified in the notification and in such a case, the provisions of this Act shall, in their application to the State, have effect as if the amendments specified in the Schedule had been made.] (2)45[The Board] shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire and hold property and to transfer any such property subject to such conditions and restrictions as may be prescribed and shall by the said name sue and be sued. 46["(3) It shall be lawful for the Board to so reorganise its administrative set-up in the State as to ensure better administration of the wakfs in the State,"]