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 5: Power of Central Government to direct vesting of Mokameh unit and the undertakings of Arthur Butler and Company in a Government company.
    (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 3, the Central Government may, if it is satisfied that a Government company (whether in existence at the commencement of this Act or incorporated thereafter) 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 Mokameh unit and the undertakings referred to in section 3, and the right, title and interest of Britannia Engineering Company in relation to the Mokameh unit, and the right, title and interest of Arthur Butler and Company in relation to the undertakings owned by it, which have vested in the Central Government under section 3, shall instead of continuing to vest in the Central Government, vest in the Government company either on the date 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 in relation to the Mokameh unit and in relation to the other undertakings referred to in section 3, vest in a Government company under sub-section (1), the Government company shall, on and from the date of such vesting, be deemed to have become the owner of the Mokameh unit and of the undertakings of Arthur Butler and Company and all the rights and liabilities of the Central Government in relation to the Mokameh unit and the undertakings of Arthur Butler and Company shall, on and from the date of such vesting, be deemed to have been the rights and liabilities, respectively, of the Government company.
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