Section 28:

28. Repairs to be a first charge on income (1) The benefit, income, or proceeds of the waqf property shall be applied for the following purposes, in the following order— (a) the maintenance and repairs of the subject of the waqf; (b) the specified object of the waqf; (c) that which is necessary for the general purpose of the specified objects; and (d) the benefit of the poor. (2) In this section, “repairs”— (a) means the preservation of the waqf property in the state in which it was at the time when it was dedicated; but (b) does not include improvements in the property. (3) Where the repairs of the subject of waqf are not made the first charge on its income or proceeds, the Court may order that the income or proceeds be suspended from being applied to the objects specified in the waqfnama and that the repairs should be made from it, but neither the mutawalli nor the beneficiaries may do so without an order of the Court.