The Kerala Church Act Bill proposed by Justice V R Krishna Iyer for Financial Transparency in Church Funds..
This is the draft Bill proposed by the Law Reforms Commission headed by Justice V.R.Krishna Iyer THE KERALA CHRISTIAN CHURCH PROPERTIES AND INSTITUTIONS TRUST BILL A Bill To promote the more democratic, efficient and just administration of the temporal affairs and properties of the Churches (Sabha) to constitute Christian Charitable Trusts and Committees for controlling the resources and finances and for the management of the properties of the churches and to provide for election to the Committees at different levels of the administrative units, viz., Parish / Basic Units, Diocese / Central / Revenue District, and State levels – BE it enacted in the Fifty nineth year of the Republic. 1. Intention .—(i) Even though the religious assets of the Christian Churches in Kerala have been handled from the ancient times as if they had been Trusts, they have not been till now registered as such, and this has given rise to various legal intricacies. In this context, the present Bil