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Beneficiary

includes religious, pious and charitable objects and any other objects of public utility sanctioned by the Muslim law. [Wakf Act, 1995 (43 of 1995), s. 3 (a)] Means (1) a person whose application has been accepted or (2)

Net annual income

net annual income determined in accordance with the provisions of the Explanations to sub-s. (1) of s. 72. [Wakf Act, 1995 (43 of 1995) s. 3(j)]

Benefit

include any benefit which a mutawalli is entitled to claim solely by reason of his being such mutawalli. [Wakf Act, 1995 (43 of 1995), s. 3 (b)] The word 'benefit' in the context means for the immediate benefit

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Person having interest

of the Act. That expression is wide enough to include not merely the beneficiaries of a temple, math, wakf etc. but also the trustees, Shree Gollaleshwar Dev v. Gangawwa Kom Shantayya Math, AIR 1986 SC 231: (1985)

Hanafi Mussalman

the Mussalman faith who conforms to the tenets and doctrines of the Hanafi school of Mussalman law. [Mussalman Wakf Validating Act, 1913 (60 of 1913), s. 2(2)

Beverages

consumed neat or after dilution, Hamdard (Wakf) Laboratories v. CCE, (1999) 6 SCC 617 (619). (Control Excise Tariff Act, 1985)

Interpretation of Statute

to reconcile the relevant provisions so as to advance the remedy intended by the Statute, Board of Muslim Wakfs v. Radha Kishan, AIR 1979 SC 289: (1979) 2 SCR 148. Interpretation of Statutes, as a general principle … the statement made by the Minister on the introduction of a measure or by the framers of the Act is admissible to construe those words. It is only where a statute is not exhaustive or where its

Relating to

well as an indirect significance, depending on the context. They are not words of restrictive context, State of Wakf Board v. Abdul Azeez Sahib, AIR 1968 Mad 79. The words 'relating to' are of wide import and … Jain v. Eknath Vithal Ogale, AIR 1995 SC 1102 (1105): (1995) 2 SCC 665. [Presidency Small Cause Courts Act (15 of 1882), s. 41(1)]

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