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 18: Priority of claims.
    The claims made under section 17 shall have priorities in accordance with the following principles, namely:--
         (a) Category I shall have precedence over all other categories and Category II shall have precedence over Category III, and so on;
         (b) the claims specified in each of the categories shall rank equally and be paid in full, but, if the amount is insufficient to meet such claims in full, they shall abate in equal proportions and be paid accordingly; and
         (c) the question of discharging any liability with regard to a matter specified in a lower category shall arise only if a surplus is left after meeting all the liabilities specified in the immediately higher category.
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