(1) In the case of any alleged breach of any express or constructive trust created for public purposes of a charitable or religious nature, or where the direction of the Court is deemed necessary for the administration of any such trust, the Advocate-General, or two or more persons having an interest in the trust and having obtained the leave of the Court, may institute a suit, whether of not the breach of trust has been committed, to obtain a decree—
- removing any trustee;
- appointing a new trustee;
- vesting any property in a trustee;
- directing accounts and inquiries;
- declaring what proportion of the trust property or of the interest therein shall be allocated to any particular object of the trust;
- authorising the whole or any part of the trust property to be let, sold, mortgaged or exchanged;
- settling a scheme; or
- granting such further or other relief as the nature of the case may require.
(2) Save as provided by the Religious Endowments Act, 1863, or by any corresponding law in force in the territory which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part B States, no suit claiming any of the reliefs specified in sub-section (1) shall be instituted in respect of any such trust as is therein referred to except in conformity with the provisions of that sub-section.