Section 5:
Power of Central Government to direct vesting of the undertakings of the Company in an existing Government company.
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in sections 3 and 4, and
subject to the provisions of section 6, the Central Government may, if it is satisfied that an existing
Government company is willing to comply, or has complied, with such terms and conditions as that
Government may think fit to impose, direct, by notification, that the undertakings of the Company, and
the right, title and interest of the Company in relation to its undertakings which have vested in the Central
Government under section 3, shall, instead of continuing to vest in the Central Government, vest in that
existing Government company either on the date of publication of the notification or on such earlier or
later date (not being a date earlier than the appointed day) as may be specified in the notification.
(2) Where the right, title and interest of the Company in relation to its undertakings vest, under
sub-section (1), in an existing Government company, that Government company shall, on and from the
date of such vesting be deemed to have become, and until the transfer of the undertakings by virtue of the
provisions of section 6, to a new Government company, be deemed to be, the owner in relation to such
undertakings and the rights and liabilities of the Central Government in relation to such undertakings
shall, on and from the date of such vesting, be deemed to have become, and until the date of such transfer,
be deemed to be, the rights and liabilities, respectively, of that existing Government company.
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