Act Number: 62

Act Name: The Jute Companies (Nationalisation) Act, 1980

Year: 1980

Enactment Date: 1980-12-21

Long Title: An Act to provide for the acquisition and transfer of the undertakings of the jute companies, specified in the First Schedule with a view to securing the proper management of such undertakings so as to subserve the interests of the general public by ensuring the continued manufacture, production and distribution of articles made of jute, which are essential to the needs of the economy of the country and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Textiles

Department:

Section 10: Duty of persons in charge of management of the undertakings to deliver all assets, etc.
    (1) On the vesting of the management of the undertakings of the jute companies in the Central Government or the Jute Manufactures Corporation, as the case may be, the persons in charge of the management of such undertakings immediately before such vesting shall be bound to deliver to the Central Government or the Jute Manufactures Corporation, as the case may be, all assets, books of account, registers and all other documents in their custody relating to such undertakings.
     (2) The Central Government may issue such directions as it may deem desirable in the circumstances of the case to the Jute Manufactures Corporation and the said Corporation may also, if it is considered necessary so to do, apply to the Central Government at any time for instructions as to the manner in which the management of the undertakings of the jute companies shall be conducted or in relation to any other matter arising in the course of such management.
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