For the purposes of this Act, the following shall be the duties to be performed and powers to be exercised by the Charity Commissioner, namely:—

1. the general superintendence of the administration and carrying out the purposes of this Act under section 3;
2. power to entertain and dispose of appeals from the findings of a Deputy or Assistant Charity Commissioner under section 20, 22 or 28;
3. power to determine which of the Deputy or Assistant Charity Commissioners shall proceed with an inquiry relating to the registration of any public trust under section 25;
4. power to direct a special audit of the accounts of a public trust under section 33;
5. power to require an auditor to forward to him a copy of a balance sheet and income and expenditure account under section 34;
6. power to permit a trustee to invest money of a public trust in any manner other than in public securities under section 35;
7. power to sanction a sale, mortgage, exchange, gift or lease of immovable property belonging to a public trust under section 36;
8. power to enter on and inspect any trust property, to call for and inspect any proceedings of a trustee, and to call for any return, statement, account or report from trustees or any person connected with a public trust under section 37;
9. power to hold an inquiry in regard to any loss caused to a public trust under section 40, and to order a surcharge under section 41;
10. power of the Charity Commissioner, to act as the Treasurer of Charitable Endowments under the Charitable Endowments Act, 1880, under section 43;
11. power to act as trustee of a public trust;
12. power to file suit under section 50;

(ll) power to frame, or modify scheme under section 50A;

1. power to give or refuse consent to the institution of a suit under section 51;
2. power to give notice to trustees for the cypres application of the trust, money and to make an application to the Court under section 55;
3. to exercise such other powers and perform such other duties and functions as may be prescribed.