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 22: Discharge in respect of interest on Government securities.
    Save as otherwise expressly provided in the terms of a Government security, no person shall be entitled to claim interest on such security in respect of any period which has elapsed after the earliest date on which demand could have been made for the payment of the amount due on such security.
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