Section 25. After sub-section (2) of section 27 of the principal Act, the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:

25. After sub-section (2) of section 27 of the principal Act, the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:— "(3) Where the Board has any reason to believe that any property of any trust or society registered in pursuance of the Indian Trusts Act, 1882 or under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 or under any other Act, is wakf property, the Board may notwithstanding anything contained in such Act, hold an inquiry in Powers of the Wakf Commissioner in relation to wakfs which have ceased to exist. Amendment of section 27. 2 of 1882. 21 of 1860. 678 Wakf (Amendment) [ACT 69 regard to such property and, if after such inquiry, the Board is satisfied that such property is wakf property, call upon the trust or society, as the case may be, either to register such property under this Act as wakf property or show cause why such property should not be so registered: Provided that in all such cases, notice of the action proposed to be taken under this sub-section shall be given to the authority by whom the trust or society had been registered. (4) The Board shall, after duly considering such cause as may be shown in pursuance of notice issued under sub-section (3), pass such orders as it may think fit and the order so made by the Board, shall be final, unless it is revoked or modified by a civil court of competent jurisdiction.".