(1)

If the present working trustee of a public trust -

(a) disclaims or dies,

(b) is for a continuous period of six months absent from India without the leave of the Commissioner or an Assistant Commissioner or other officer authorised by the State Government in this behalf or leaves India for the purpose of residing abroad.

(c) is declared an insolvent,

(d) desires to be discharged from the trust,

(e) refuses to act as a trustee,

(f) becomes unfit or physically incapable to act in the trust or accepts a position which is inconsistent with the trust, or

(g) is not available to administer the trust,

(2)

The Assistant Commissioner, after making such inquiry as he considers necessary and, where the application has not been made by the working trustee himself, after giving him a reasonable opportunity of being heard, direct such working trustee or any other trustee or person having interest in the trust to apply to the Court for the appointment of a new working trustee, and where the person so directed fails to make such an application or for any other reason the Assistant Commissioner considers it expedient to do so, he shall himself make the application.