CPC 1908 § 92 — Public charities

Statutory text (English)

(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 2[with the leave of the Court], may
institute a suit, whether contentious or not, in the principal Civil Court of original jurisdiction or in any
other Court empowered in that behalf by the 3[Provincial Government] within the local limits of
whose jurisdiction the whole or any part of the subject-matter of the trust is situate, to obtain
a decree—
(a) removing any trustee ;
(b) appointing a new trustee ;
(c) vesting any property in a trustee ;
(d) directing accounts and inquiries ;
(e) declaring what proportion of the trust-property or of the interest therein shall
be allocated to any particular object of the trust ;
(f) authorising the whole or any part of the trust-property to be let, sold, mortgaged
or exchanged ;
(g) settling a scheme ; or
(h) granting such further or other relief as the nature of the case may require.

(2) 1[* * *] 1[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.

Source and verification

Source citation: CPC (Act V of 1908) s.92: Pakistan Code portal consolidated official PDF 'THE CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, 1908' (Act No. V of 1908; portal status 'Under Review'; reflects amendments through the CPC (Amendment) Act, 2023 incl. inserted s.159), p. 42, 43, ingested 2026-09-15. Automated transcription from official source (pypdf extraction, audited artifact repair); human admin re-check required before production.

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