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RELEVANT EXTRACT FROM THE RAJASTHAN RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS AND PLACES ACT, 1954
(Act No. XVIII of 1954) [Received the assent of the President on the 15th day of August, 1954.]
An Act to regulate the construction of public religious buildings and to restrict the use of public places for religious purposes.
Whereas with a view to avoiding a breach of the public and tranquillity likely to arise from disputes between different sections of the people of [the State of Rajasthan), it is expedient to regulate the construction of public religious buildings and restrict the use of public places for religious purposes. It is hereby enacted as follows:
1. Short title, extent and commencement.--1) This Act may be called the Rajathan Religious Buildings and Places Act, 1954.
[(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Rajasthan.] (3) It shall come into force on the date of its first publication in the [Official Gazette). [2 xxx] [3 xxx] 4. Definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:() [xxx] (i) "building" means a house, shop, hut, shed or other structure or enclosure,
whether roofed of not, of whatsoever material constructed and includes every part thereof, all walls, verandahs, platforms, plinths, doors steps and
the like and a tent or other portable and merely temporary shelter: [(ii) "Commissioner" means the Divisional Commissioner appointed under section
17 of the Rajathan Land Revenue Act, 1956 (Rajasthan Act 15 of 1956):] (iv) "place" means any open space which is not a building; (v) "public" used with reference to a building or place, signifies that such building
or place, whether or not acquired, constructed and maintained by or at the expense of some specified person or body or persons is not the private and personal property of such person or body and is open to the use and enjoyment of the public in general or of a particular class or section thereof for the purpose, if any, for which it may have been set apart;
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