Act Number: 79

Act Name: The State Bank of Hyderabad Act, 1956

Year: 1956

Enactment Date: 1956-12-22

Long Title: An Act to transfer the share capital of the Hyderabad State Bank to the Reserve Bank of India and to provide for its proper management and other matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Finance

Department: Department of Financial Services

Section 41: Power of Central Government to make rules.
    (1) The Central Government may, in consultation with the Reserve Bank, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to give effect to the provisions of this Act.
     (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for--
         (a) the manner of, and the procedure for payment of, compensation under this Act, including the requirements subject to which the payment shall be made;
         (b) the determination of persons to whom the said compensation shall be payable in all cases including cases where shares have been held by more than one person, or where they have been transferred before the appointed day, but the transfer has not been registered or where the shareholder is dead;
         (c) the circumstances under which claims for payment of the said compensation from persons claiming through or under a shareholder may be entertained;
         (d) the requirements to be complied with before receipt of the said compensation by a shareholder, whose share certificate has been lost, destroyed, mutilated or stolen;
         (e) the requirements, subject to which information regarding the payment of the said compensation may be granted or refused and the conditions subject to which such information may be given.
     1[(3) Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if , before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.]
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 4 of 2005, s. 2 and the Schedule, for sub-section (3) (w.e.f. 11-1-2005).
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