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 14: Provident fund and other funds.
    (1) Where Britannia Engineering Company or Arthur Butler and Company has established a provident fund, superannuation fund, welfare fund or other fund for the benefit of persons employed in the Mokameh unit or, as the case may be, any of the undertakings owned by Arthur Butler and Company, the monies relatable to the employees, whose services have become transferred by or under this Act to the Central Government or the Government company shall out of the monies standing, on the appointed day, to the credit of such provident fund, superannuation fund, welfare fund or other funds, stand transferred to, and vest in, the Central Government or the Government company, as the case may be.
     (2) The monies which stand transferred under sub-section (1) to the Central Government or the Government company, as the case may be, shall be dealt with by that Government or the Government company in such manner as may be prescribed.
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