Section 14
General effect of vesting of undertaking in the Authority.
The Airports Authority of India Act, 1994
About this Act
An Act to provide for the constitution of the Airports Authority of India and for the transfer and vesting of the undertakings of the International Airports Authority of India and the National Airports Authority to and in the Airports Authority of India so constituted for the better administration and cohesive management of airports and civil enclaves whereat air transport services are operated or are intended to be operated and of all aeronautical communication stations for the purposes of establishing or assisting in the establishment of airports and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(1) All contracts, agreements and
working arrangements subsisting immediately before the appointed day and affecting the International
Airports Authority, or as the case may be, the National Airports Authority shall, in so far as they relate to
the International Airports Authority, or as the case may be, the National Airports Authority, cease to have
effect or be enforceable against the International Airports Authority, or as the case may be, the National
Airports Authority and shall be of as full force and effect against or in favour of the Authority in which
the undertakings have vested by virtue of this Act and enforceable as fully and effectually as if, instead of
the International Airports Authority, or as the case may be, the National Airports Authority, the Authority
had been named therein or had been a party thereto.
(2) Any proceeding, suit or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the appointed day by or against the International Airports Authority or the National Airports Authority in relation to its undertakings may, as from that day, be continued and enforced by or against the Authority in which it has vested by virtue of this Act, as it might have been enforced by or against the International Airports Authority or the National Airports Authority if this Act had not been passed, and shall cease to be enforceable by or against the International Airports Authority, or as the case may be, the National Airports Authority.
(2) Any proceeding, suit or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the appointed day by or against the International Airports Authority or the National Airports Authority in relation to its undertakings may, as from that day, be continued and enforced by or against the Authority in which it has vested by virtue of this Act, as it might have been enforced by or against the International Airports Authority or the National Airports Authority if this Act had not been passed, and shall cease to be enforceable by or against the International Airports Authority, or as the case may be, the National Airports Authority.