Act Number: 55

Act Name: The Hooghly Docking and Engineering Company Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1984

Year: 1984

Enactment Date: 1984-08-23

Long Title: An Act to provide for the acquisition and transfer of the undertakings of the Hooghly Docking and Engineering Company Limited with a view to securing the better utilisation of the available infrastructure thereof, to modernise and increase the capacity for ship building and ship repairing so as to reduce the import of ships, vessels and craft and to augment the production of grey iron, non-ferrous and alloy castings by the said undertakings so as to subserve the interests of the general public by ensuring the continued supply of the said articles which are essential to the needs of the economy of the country, and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Shipping

Department:

Section 2: Definitions.
    In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--
         (a) "appointed day" means the date of commencement of this Act;
         (b) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Payments appointed under section 15;
         (c) "Company" means the Hooghly Docking and Engineering Company Limited, being a company as defined in the Companies, Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), and having its registered office at 12, Mission Row, Calcutta-700001;
         (d) "existing Government company" means a Government company which is carrying on business on the appointed day;
         (e) "new Government company" means a Government company formed and registered on or after the appointed day;
         (f) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;
         (g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
         (h) "specified date", in relation to any provision of this Act, means such date as the Central Government may, by notification, specify for the purposes of that provision and different dates may be specified for different provisions of this Act.
         (i) words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), shall have the meanings, respectively, assigned to them in that Act.
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