Act Number: 18

Act Name: The Public Debt Act, 1944

Year: 1944

Enactment Date: 1944-11-22

Long Title: An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Government securities and to the management by the Reserve Bank of India of the public debt of the Government.

Ministry: Ministry of Finance

Department: Department of Economic Affairs

Section 20: Stay of proceedings on order of Court.
    Where the Bank contemplates making with reference to any Government security any order which it is empowered to make under this Act, and before the order is made the Bank receives from a Court in 1[India] an order to stay the making of such order, the Bank shall either--
         (a) hold the security together with any interest unpaid or accruing thereon until the further orders of the Court are received, or
         (b) apply to the Court to have the security transferred to the Official Trustees appointed for the State in which such Court is situated, pending the dispo sal of the proceedings before the Court.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 57 of 1956, s. 10, for "a Part A State or a Part C State" (w.e.f. 15-10-1956).
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