Section 59:
Special provisions as to income-tax.
Where the assets, rights and liabilities of anybody
corporate carrying on business are, under the provisions of this Part, transferred to any other bodies
corporate which after the transfer carry on the same business, the losses or profits or gains sustained by the
body corporate first mentioned which, but for such transfer, would have been allowed to be carried
forward and set-off in accordance with the provisions of Chapter VI of the Income-tax Act, 1961
(43 of 1961), shall be apportioned amongst the transferee bodies corporate in accordance with the rules to
be made by the Central Government in this behalf and, upon such appointnment, the share of loss allotted
to each transferee body corporate shall be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of Chapter VI of
the said Act as if the transferee body corporate had itself sustained such loss in a business carried on by it
in the years in which these losses were sustained.