Section 46:
Investments and credits in certain funds.
(1) The securities held in respect of the investments
made from Cash Balances Investment Account or from any Fund in the Public Account of the existing
State of Bihar as specified in the Seventh Schedule shall be apportioned in the ratio of population of the
successor States:
Provided that the securities held in investments made from the Calamity Relief Fund of the existing
State of Bihar shall be divided in the ratio of the area of the territories occupied by the successor States:
Provided further that the balance in the Reserve Funds in the Public Account of Bihar created wholly
out of appropriations from the Consolidated Fund of the existing State of Bihar, to the extent the balances
have not been invested outside Government account, shall not be carried forward to similar Reserve
Funds in the Public Account of, successor States.
(2) The investments of the existing State of Bihar immediately before the appointed day, in any
special fund, the objects of which are confined to a local area, shall belong to the State in which that area
is included on the appointed day.
(3) The investments of the existing State of Bihar immediately before the appointed day in any
private, commercial or industrial undertaking, in so far as such investments have not been made or are
deemed not to have been made from the cash balance investment account, shall pass to the State in which
the principal seat of business of the undertaking is located.
(4) Where any body corporate constituted under a Central Act, State Act or Provincial Act for the
existing State of Bihar or any part thereof has, by virtue of the provisions of Part II, becomes an
inter-State body corporate, the investments in, or loans or advances to, any such body corporate by the
existing State of Bihar made before the appointed day shall, save as otherwise expressly provided by or
under this Act, be divided between the States of Bihar and Jharkhand in the same proportion in which the
assets of the body corporate are divided under the provisions of this Part.