Section 78:
Special provision as to income-tax.
Where the assets, rights and liabilities of any body
corporate carrying on any 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 of 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 section 24 of the Indian Income-tax
Act, 1922 (11 of 1922), 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 apportionment, the share of
loss allotted to each transferee body corporate shall be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of
section 24 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.