Act Number: 38

Act Name: The State Bank of India (Subsidiary Banks) Act, 1959

Year: 1959

Enactment Date: 1959-09-10

Long Title: An Act to provide for the formation of certain Government or Government associated banks as subsidiaries of the State Bank of India and for the constitution, management and control of the subsidiary banks so formed, and for matters connected therewith, or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Finance

Department: Department of Financial Services

Section 23: Certain officers to vacate office.
    Every person holding office as chairman, director, member of the Board of Management (including a member of a local or advisory committee), managing director, general manager, manager (other than manager of a branch), deputy managing director, deputy general manager, assistant general manager or adviser, as the case may be, in an existing bank (other than the Bank of Patiala) 1 [and the Hyderabad Bank] immediately before the appointed day, shall be deemed to have vacated that office on the appointed day, and notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in any other law for the time being in force or in any agreement or contract, such person shall not be entitled to any compensation for the loss of office or for the premature termination of any agreement or contract, relating to his employment, except such pension, compensation or other benefit as the corresponding new bank, 2 [or the Hyderabad Bank], as the case may be, may with the approval of the State Bank, grant to him, having regard to what he would have received if this Act had not been passed and if his employment had ceased on the appointed day in the ordinary course:
     Provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent any person who has so vacated his office in any of the said banks from being re-nominated or re-appointed to any office in a subsidiary bank in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 48 of 2009, s. 5, for ", the Hyderabad Bank and the Saurashtra Bank" (w.e.f. 1-6-2010).
2. Subs. by s. 5, ibid., for "the Hyderabad Bank or the Saurashtra Bank" (w.e.f. 1-6-2010).
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