law: The Advocates' Welfare Fund Act, 2001
  11. Functions of
  
  Trustee Committee.-
  1. 
  
   Subject
  
  to the provisions of this Act and any other law for the time being in force,
  
  the Trustee Committee shall administer the Fund.
  2. 
  
   Without
  
  prejudice to the generality of the provisions contained in sub-section (1), the
  
  Trustee Committee shall-
  a.    hold the amounts and
  
  assets belonging to the Fund in trust;
  b.    receive applications
  
  for admission or re-admission as members to the Fund, and dispose of such
  
  applications within ninety days from the date of receipt thereof;
  c.    receive applications
  
  from the members of the Fund, their nominees or legal heirs, as the case may
  
  be, for payment out of the Fund, conduct such enquiry as it deems necessary and
  
  dispose of the applications within five months from the date of receipt hereof;
  
  
  d.    record in the minutes
  
  book of the Trustee Committee, its decisions on the applications;
  e.    pay to the members of
  
  the Fund or their nominees or legal heirs, as the case may be, the amounts at
  
  the rates specified in Schedule I;
  f.    send such periodical
  
  and annual reports as may be prescribed, to the appropriate Government and the
  
  State Bar Council;
  g.    communicate to the
  
  applicants, by registered post with acknowledgment due or through electronic
  
  mode, the decisions of the Trustee Committee in respect of applications for
  
  admission or re-admission as members to the Fund or claims to the benefit of t
  
  e Fund;
  h.    do such other acts as
  
  are, or may be, required to be done under this Act and the rules made
  
  thereunder.