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 16: Certain powers of the Central Government or Andrew Yule.
    (1) The Central Government or Andrew Yule, as the case may be, shall be entitled to receive up to the specified date, to the exclusion of all other persons, any money due to the Company, in relation to its undertakings which have vested in the Central Government or Andrew Yule, and realised after the appointed day, notwithstanding that the realisation pertains to a period prior to the appointed day.
     (2) The Central Government or Andrew Yule, as the case may be, may make a claim to the Commissioner with regard to every payment made by it after the appointed day for discharging any liability of the Company in relation to any period prior to the appointed day; and every such claim shall have priority in accordance with the priorities attaching, under this Act, to the matter in relation to which such liability has been discharged by the Central Government or Andrew Yule.
     (3) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the liabilities of the Company in respect of any transaction prior to the appointed day, which have not been discharged on or before the specified date, shall be the liabilities of the Company.
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