Act Number: 37

Act Name: The National Dairy Development Board Act, 1987

Year: 1987

Enactment Date: 1987-09-15

Long Title: An Act to declare the institution known as the National Dairy Development Board in the State of Gujarat to be an institution of national importance and to provide for its incorporation and for the vesting in that body corporate of the undertakings of the Indian Dairy Corporation with a view to provide for the administration and the carrying on of the functions to be performed by the body corporate more effectively throughout the country and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare

Department: Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying

Section 4: Incorporation of National Dairy Development Board.
    (1) The National Dairy Development Board is hereby constituted a body corporate by the same name, and as such body corporate, it shall have perpetual succession and a common seal with power, subject to the provisions of this Act, to acquire, hold and dispose of property and to contract, and shall, by that name, sue and be sued.
     (2) The head office of the National Dairy Development Board shall be at Anand in the State of Gujarat.
     (3) The National Dairy Development Board may establish units, offices, branches or agencies at any such place in or outside India as it may consider necessary.
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