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 25: Assumption of liability.
    (1) Where any liability of the Company in relation to any textile undertaking arising out of any item specified in Part I of the Schedule is not discharged fully by the Commissioner out of the amounts paid to him under this Act, the Commissioner shall intimate in writing to the Central Government the extent of the liability which remains undischarged and that liability shall be assumed by the Central Government.
     (2) The Central Government may, by order, direct the National Textile Corporation to take over the liability assumed by the Central Government under sub-section (1), and on receipt of such direction, it shall be the duty of that Corporation to discharge such liability.
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