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and includes Joint State Committee; "State Government' in relation to Union terr
section 18 and includes Joint State Committee; "State Government' in relation to Union territory, means the Administrator of that Union territory appointed by the President under article 239 of the Constitution. CHAPTER II
HAJ COMMITTEE OF INDIA
3. Constitution and incorporation of Haj Committee of India. -(1) With effect from such date a5 the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf, there shall be constituted a Committee by the name of the Haj Committee of India: (2F The Committee shall be a body corporate, by the name aforesaid, having perpetual succession and a common seal with power; subject to the provisions of this Act, to acquire, hold and dispose of property, both movable and immovable, to create a charitable trust OT endowment; and to contract and shall by the said name sue and be sued: (3) The Committee shall have its headquarters at Mumbai and as and when the Committee considers it functionally necessary, additional regional offices may be opened in consultation with the Central Government.
1. Sth December; 2002, vide notification No. S.O. 1267(E), dated Sth December; 2002, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii) . 3
4. Composition of Committee: The Committee shall consist of the following members, namely: three members of Parliament of whom two are to be nominated by the Speaker of the House of the People from among its Muslim members, and one by the Chairman of the Council of States from among its Muslim members: Provided that member of Parliament shall, upon ceasing to be member, cease to be member of the Committee and the Speaker of the House of the People o the Chairman of the Council of States, as the case may be, shall make a fresh nomination upon request by the Central Government; (ii) nine Muslim members of the Committee shall be elected, three from those States sending largest number of pilgrims during last three years and one each from the zones as specified in the Schedule, in such manner as may be prescribed: Provided that not more than one member shall be elected from a State falling in the zone as specified in the Schedule; (iii) four persons not below the rank of Joint Secretary to the Government of India nominated by that Government to represent the Ministries of External Affairs, Home, Finance and Civil Aviation, as ex officio members; (iv) seven Muslim members shall be nominated by the Central Government from among the following categories of persons, namely: two members who have special knowledge of public administration, finance, education, culture or social work and out of whom one shall be a Shia Muslim; two women members, out of them one shall be Shia Muslim; three members who have special knowledge of Muslim theology and Iaw, out of them one shall be a Shia Muslim:
5. Notification of members -~As soon as may be after the nomination of the members of the Committee under
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