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:—

(a) the general superintendence of the administration and carrying out the purposes of this Act under section 3;

(b) power to entertain and dispose of appeals from the findings of a Deputy or Assistant Charity Commissioner under section 20, 22 or 28;

(c) 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;

(d) power to direct a special audit of the accounts of a public trust under section 33;

(e) power to require an auditor to forward to him a copy of a balance sheet and income and expenditure account under section 34;

(f) power to permit a trustee to invest money of a public trust in any manner other than in public securities under section 35;

(g) power to sanction a sale, mortgage, exchange, gift or lease of immovable property belonging to a public trust under section 36;

(h) 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;

(i) 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;

(j) power of the Charity Commissioner, to act as the Treasurer of Charitable Endowments under the Charitable Endowments Act, 1880, under section 43;

(k) power to act as trustee of a public trust;

(l) power to file suit under section 50;

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

(m) power to give or refuse consent to the institution of a suit under section 51;

(n) 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;

(p) to exercise such other powers and perform such other duties and functions as may be prescribed.