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(d)
general supervision of religious activity, directing it and
making the regulations organizing the same;
(e)
management of the Islamic trusts;
(f)
supervising the pilgrimage affairs;
(g)
the same;
organizing the specialized religious education and developing
(h)
patronizing the Christian affairs and other religious and
good beliefs in cooperation with the public organizations and
institutions in this field;
(i)
performing the functions required by the participation of
the Sudan in the Islamic African Centre in Khartoum;
(j)
laying down the general budget of the Religious Affairs
and Wakfs and submitting the same to the competent bodies for
approval;
(k)
laying down the plans and programmes for places of worship,
maintaining and organizing the same to perform their message in all the
educational and cultural affairs and providing religious guides and
directors and training them;
(l)
developing and investing the trust’s property and utilizing
their returns in the purposes for which they are entrusted and the other
lawful ways;
(m)
laying down the plan and programme to implement the national
plan in the field of Religious Affairs and Wakfs;
(n)
the Council may obtain by way of gift, legacy or otherwise
any money or other property whether immovable or movable and keep the
same and deal therein in any way of lawful dealing to achieve its
objects."
46.
The Non-Muslim Marriage Act, 1926 contains the following sections:
"Application", "Invalid and voidable marriages", "Effect of marriage under the
Act", "Marriage districts - Registrars - Places registered for celebration of
marriages", "Preliminaries to marriage", "Consent to marriage", "Celebration
of marriage", "Register and evidence of marriages", "Jurisdiction of civil
courts", "Penalties" and "Miscellaneous".
The section entitled "Invalid and
voidable marriages" contains subsections indicating the grounds for nullifying
a marriage; the following are the titles of these subsections: "Previous
subsisting marriage"; "Impediments on account of consanguinity or affinity";
"Informality"; "Consent of party to marriage defective"; "Marriage by male
under fifteen or female under thirteen".