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 28: Penalties.
    Any person who,--
         (a) having in his possession, custody or control any property forming part of the undertakings owned by any jute company, wrongfully withholds such property from the Central Government or the Jute Manufactures Corporation; or
         (b) wrongfully obtains possession of, or retains any property forming part of, the undertakings owned by any jute company; or
         (c) wilfully withholds or fails to furnish to the Central Government or the Jute Manufactures Corporation or any person or body of persons specified by that Government or Corporation, as the case may be, any document or inventory relating to the undertakings, owned by any jute company, which may be in his possession, custody or control; or
         (d) fails to deliver to the Central Government or the Jute Manufactures Corporation or any person or body of persons specified by that Government or Corporation, any assets, books of account, registers or other documents in his possession, custody or control relating to the undertakings owned by any jute company; or
         (e) wrongfully removes or destroys any property forming part of the undertakings owned by any jute company or prefers any claim under this Act which he knows or has reason to believe to be false or grossly inaccurate,
     shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years and also with fine which may extend to ten thousand rupees.
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