Act Number: 42

Act Name: The Gresham and Craven of India (Private) Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1977

Year: 1977

Enactment Date: 1977-12-20

Long Title: An Act to provide for the acquisition and transfer of the undertakings of Messrs. Gresham and Craven of India (Private) Limited for the purpose of ensuring the continuity of production of goods which are vital to the needs of the Railways and of the industries manufacturing engineering products and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Department: Department of Heavy Industry

Section 6: Vesting of the undertakings of the Company in the Braithwaite and Company Limited.
    (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in sections 3 and 4, the Central Government shall, as soon as may be, after the promulgation of the Ordinance, direct, by notification, that the undertakings of the Company, and the right, title and interest of the Company in relation to its undertakings, which have vested in the Central Government under section 3, shall, instead of continuing to vest in the Central Government, vest in the Braithwaite and Company Limited either on the date of the notification or on such earlier or later date (not being a date earlier than the appointed day) as may be specified in the notification.
     (2) Where the right, title and interest of the Company in relation to its undertakings vest in the Braithwaite and Company Limited under sub-section (1), the Braithwaite and Company Limited shall, on and from the date of such vesting, be deemed to have become the owner in relation to such undertakings, and all the rights and liabilities of the Central Government in relation to such undertakings shall, on and from the date of such vesting, be deemed to have become the rights and liabilities, respectively, of the Braithwaite and Company Limited.
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