Section 11
Effect of contracts, etc.
The Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital (Acquisition and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1977
About this Act
An Act to provide for the acquisition of the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital and for the management of the Kalavati Saran Hospital, with a view to ensuring better facilities for higher medical education for women and medical facilities for women and children in the Union territory of Delhi and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) All contracts, deeds, bonds, agreements, powers of attorney, grants
of legal representation and other instruments of whatever nature, subsisting or having effect immediately
before the appointed day, and to which the Board of Administration or, as the case may be, the Board of
Management, or any person on behalf of the Board of Administration or, as the case may be, the Board of
Management, is a party, or which are in favour of the Board of Administration or, as the case may be,
Board of Management, shall, in so far as they relate to any purpose, or affairs, of the Lady Hardinge
Medical College and Hospital, or, as the case may be, the Kalavati Saran Hospital, be of as full force and
effect against, or in favour of, the Central Government, and may be enforced or acted upon as full and
effectually as if in place of the Board of Administration or, as the case may be, the Board of
Management, the Central Government had been a party thereto or as if they had been issued in favour of
the Central Government.
(2) If, on the appointed day, any suit, appeal or other proceeding of whatever nature in relation to the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, or, as the case may be, the Kalavati Saran Hospital, or any affair of the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital or the Kalavati Saran Hospital, is pending by, or against, the Board of Administration or, as the case may be, the Board of Management or the Treasurer or any other person, the same shall not abate, be discontinued or be, in any way, prejudicially affected by reason of the transfer of the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital to the Central Government or by reason of the assumption of management of the Kalavati Saran Hospital by the Central Government, or of anything contained in this Act; but the suit, appeal or other proceeding may be contained, prosecuted and enforced by or against the Central Government.
(2) If, on the appointed day, any suit, appeal or other proceeding of whatever nature in relation to the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, or, as the case may be, the Kalavati Saran Hospital, or any affair of the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital or the Kalavati Saran Hospital, is pending by, or against, the Board of Administration or, as the case may be, the Board of Management or the Treasurer or any other person, the same shall not abate, be discontinued or be, in any way, prejudicially affected by reason of the transfer of the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital to the Central Government or by reason of the assumption of management of the Kalavati Saran Hospital by the Central Government, or of anything contained in this Act; but the suit, appeal or other proceeding may be contained, prosecuted and enforced by or against the Central Government.