The Wakf Amendment Act, 1984, 69 of 1984 (Rep., Act 43 of 1995)

Section 47. After section 46 of the principal Act, the following sections shall be inserted, namely:

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(3) Any bank or other person who is ordered under sub-section (1) to make any payment may, within thirty days from Insertion of new sections 46A and 46B. Power of Wakf Commissioner to direct banks, etc., to make payment. 696 Wakf (Amendment) [ACT 69 the date of the order, prefer an appeal against such order to the Tribunal and the decision of the Tribunal on such appeal shall be final. (2) Every payment made by a bank or other person in pursuance of any order made under sub-section (1) shall operate as a full discharge of the liability of such bank or other person in relation to the sum so paid. (4) Every officer of the bank or other person who fails, without any reasonable excuse, to comply with the order made under sub-section (1) or, as the case may be, under sub-section (3), shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, or with both. Deduction of contribution from perpetual annuity payable to the wakf. 47. After section 46 of the principal Act, the following sections shall be inserted, namely:— "46A. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the Wakf Commissioner, if he is satisfied that it is necessary and expedient so to do, make an order directing any bank in which, or any person with whom, any money belonging to a wakf is deposited, to pay the contribution, leviable under section 46, out of such money, as may be standing to the credit of the wakf in such bank or may be deposited with such person, or out of the monies which may, from time to time, be received by such bank or other person for or on behalf of the wakf by way of deposit, and on receipt of such orders, the bank or the other person, as the case may be, shall, when no appeal has been preferred under sub-section (3), comply with such orders, or where an appeal has been preferred under sub-section (3), shall comply with the orders made by the Tribunal on such appeal.

Source: India Code