Act Number: 41

Act Name: The Transformer and Switchgear Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1983

Year: 1983

Enactment Date: 1983-12-25

Long Title: An Act to provide for the acquisition and transfer of the undertakings of the Transformer and Switchgear Limited with a view to securing the better utilisation of the available infrastructure thereof and to modernise and augment the production of transformers, switchgears and other allied electrical equipments by the said undertakings so as to subserve the interests of the general public be ensuring the continued supply of the aforesaid articles which are essential to the needs of the economy of the country and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises

Department: Department of Heavy Industry

Section 12: Continuance of employees.
    (1) Every person who has been, immediately before the appointed day, employed in any of the undertakings of the Company shall become,--
         (a) on and from the appointed day, an employee of the Central Government; and
         (b) where the undertakings of the Company are directed under sub-section (1) or section 6 to vest in Andrew Yule, an employee of Andrew Yule on and from the date of such vesting,
and shall hold office or service under the Central Government or Andrew Yule, as the case may be, with the same rights and privileges as to pension, gratuity and other matters as would have been admissible to him if there had been no such vesting and shall continue to do so unless and until his employment under the Central Government or Andrew Yule, as the case may be, is duly terminated or until his remuneration and other conditions of service are duly altered by the Central Government or Andrew Yule, as the case may be.
     (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), or in any other law for the time being in force, the transfer of the services of any officer or other person employed in any undertaking of the Company to the Central Government or Andrew Yule shall not entitle such officer or other employee to any compensation under this Act or under any order law for the time being in force and no such claim shall be entertained by any court, tribunal or other authority.
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