Act Number: 30

Act Name: The Swadeshi Cotton Mills Company Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1986

Year: 1986

Enactment Date: 1986-05-30

Long Title: An Act to provide for the acquisition and transfer of certain textile undertakings of the Swadeshi Cotton Mills Company Limited, with a view to securing the proper management of such undertakings so as to subserve the interests of the general public by ensuring the continued manufacture, production and distribution of different varieties of cloth and yarn and thereby to give effect to the policy of the State towards securing the principles specified in clauses (b) and (c) of article 39 of the Constitution and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Textiles

Department:

Section 3: Transfer and vesting of the textile undertakings.
    (1) On the appointed day, every textile undertaking and the right, title and interest of the Company in relation to every such textile undertaking shall, by virtue of this Act, stand transferred to, and shall vest in, the Central Government.
     (2) Every such textile undertaking which stands vested in the Central Government by virtue of sub-section (1) shall, immediately after it has so vested, stand transferred to, and vested in, the National Textile Corporation.
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