The Advocates' Welfare Fund Act, 2001
11. Functions of
Trustee Committee.-
1.
Subject
to the provisions of this Act and any other law for the time being in force,
the Trustee Committee shall administer the Fund.
2.
Without
prejudice to the generality of the provisions contained in sub-section (1), the
Trustee Committee shall-
a. hold the amounts and
assets belonging to the Fund in trust;
b. receive applications
for admission or re-admission as members to the Fund, and dispose of such
applications within ninety days from the date of receipt thereof;
c. receive applications
from the members of the Fund, their nominees or legal heirs, as the case may
be, for payment out of the Fund, conduct such enquiry as it deems necessary and
dispose of the applications within five months from the date of receipt hereof;
d. record in the minutes
book of the Trustee Committee, its decisions on the applications;
e. pay to the members of
the Fund or their nominees or legal heirs, as the case may be, the amounts at
the rates specified in Schedule I;
f. send such periodical
and annual reports as may be prescribed, to the appropriate Government and the
State Bar Council;
g. communicate to the
applicants, by registered post with acknowledgment due or through electronic
mode, the decisions of the Trustee Committee in respect of applications for
admission or re-admission as members to the Fund or claims to the benefit of t
e Fund;
h. do such other acts as
are, or may be, required to be done under this Act and the rules made
thereunder.