Act Number: 53

Act Name: The National Housing Bank Act, 1987

Year: 1987

Enactment Date: 1987-12-23

Long Title: An Act to establish a bank to be known as the National Housing Bank to operate as a principal agency to promote housing finance institutions both at local and regional levels and to provide financial and other support to such institutions and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Finance

Department: Department of Financial Services

Section 8: Disqualifications.
    No person shall be a director of the Board, if he--
         (a) is, or becomes of unsound mind and has been so declared by a competent court; or
         (b) is or has been convicted of any offence which, in the opinion of the Central Government, involves moral turpitude; or
         (c) is, or at any time has been, adjudicated as insolvent or has suspended payment of his debts or has compounded with his creditors; or
         (d) has, for any reason, been removed or dismissed from the service of--
             (i) the Government, or
             (ii) the Reserve Bank, the State Bank or any other bank, or
             (iii) any public financial institution, or state financial corporation, or
             (iv) any other corporation owned or controlled by the Government.
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