Act Number: 41

Act Name: The Britannia Engineering Company Limited (Mokameh Unit) and the Arthur Butler and Company (Muzaffarpore) Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1978

Year: 1978

Enactment Date: 1978-12-08

Long Title: An Act to provide for the acquisition and transfer of the right, title and interest of the undertakings of Britannia Engineering Company in relation to the Mokameh unit owned by it and the right, title and interest of Arthur Butler and Company in relation to the undertakings owned by it, with a view to ensuring the continued manufacture of railway wagons and other goods essential to the needs of the country in general and the Railways in particular, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Railways

Department:

Section 10: Duty to deliver possession of Mokameh unit and undertakings of Arthur Butler and Company.
    (1) Every person, in whose possession or custody or control--
         (i) the Mokameh unit, or
         (ii) any undertaking or Arthur Butler and Company, or
any part of such unit or undertaking or any machinery, instrument or other movable assets forming part of such unit or undertaking, may be immediately before the appointed day, shall forthwith deliver possession of the Mokameh unit or such undertaking or such part, machinery, instrument or other asset, as the case may be, to the Central Government or the Government company or to such person or body of persons as the Central Government or the Government company may specify in this behalf.
     (2) Every person who has, on the appointed day, in his possession or under his control any assets, books, documents or other papers relating to the Mokameh unit or any undertaking owned by Arthur Butler and Company, which has vested in the Central Government or a Government company under this Act, and which belong to Britannia Engineering Company or, as the case may be, Arthur Butler and Company, or would have so belonged if the Mokameh unit, or as the case may be, the undertakings owned by Arthur Butler and Company, had not vested in the Central Government or the Government company, shall be liable to account for the said assets, books, documents and other papers to the Central Government or the Government company and shall deliver them up to the Central Government or the Government company or to such person or body or persons as the Central Government or the Government Company may specify in this behalf.
     (3) The Central Government may take or cause to be taken all necessary steps for securing possession of the Mokameh unit and the undertakings of Arthur Butler and Company which have vested in it under section 3.
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