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 13: Employment of employees to continue.
    (1) Every person who has been, immediately before the appointed day, employed by--
         (i) Britannia Engineering Company, in connection with the Mokameh unit, or
         (ii) Arthur Butler and Company, in connection with any undertaking owned by it,
shall become, on and from the appointed day, an employee of the Central Government or, as the case may be, of the Government company, and shall hold office or service under the Central Government or the Government company, as the case may be, with the same rights and privileges as to pension, gratuity and other matters as would have been admissible to him if there had been no such vesting and shall continue to do so unless and until his employment under the Central Government or the Government company, as the case may be, is duly terminated or until his remuneration and other conditions of service are duly altered by the Central Government or the Government company, as the case may be.
     (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Industrial Disputes Act 1947 (14 of 1947), or in any other law for the time being in force, the transfer of the services of any officer or other person employed in the Mokameh unit or any undertakings owned by Arthur Butler and Company, to the Central Government or the Government company shall not entitle such officer or other employee to any compensation under this Act or any other law for the time being in force and no such claim shall be entertained by any court, tribunal or other authority.
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