Section 4:
General effect of vesting of undertaking in Company.
(1) The Central Government, being
the shareholder of the Reconstruction Bank immediately before the appointed day, shall be deemed to
be registered, on and from the appointed day, as a shareholder of the Company.
(2) The undertakings of the Reconstruction Bank which are transferred to, and which vest in, the
Company under section 3 shall be deemed to include all business, assets, rights, powers, authorities and
privileges and all properties, movable and immovable, real and personal, corporeal and incorporeal, in
possession or reservation, present or contingent of whatever nature and wheresoever situate including
lands, buildings, vehicles, cash balances, deposits, foreign currencies, disclosed and undisclosed
reserves, reserve fund, special reserve fund, benevolent reserve fund, any other fund, stocks,
investments, shares, bonds, debentures, security, management of any industrial concern, loans,
advances and guarantees given to industrial concerns, tenancies, leases and book debts and all other
rights and interests arising out of such property as were immediately before the appointed day in the
ownership, possession or power of the Reconstruction Bank in relation to its undertakings, within or
without India, all books of account, registers, records and documents relating thereto and shall also be
deemed to include all borrowings, liabilities and obligations of whatever kind within or without India
then subsisting of the Reconstruction Bank in relation to its undertakings.
(3) All contracts, deeds, bonds, guarantees, powers of attorney, other instruments and working
arrangements subsisting immediately before the appointed day and affecting the Reconstruction Bank shall cease to have effect or to be enforceable against the Reconstruction Bank and shall be of as full
force and effect against or in favour of the Company in which the undertakings of the Reconstruction
Bank have vested by virtue of this Act and enforceable as fully and effectually as if instead of the
Reconstruction Bank, the Company had been named therein or had been a party thereto.
(4) Any proceeding or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the appointed day by
or against the Reconstruction Bank in relation to its undertakings may, as from the appointed day, be
continued and enforced by or against the Company in which the undertakings of the Reconstruction
Bank have vested by virtue of this Act as it might have been enforced by or against the Reconstruction
Bank if this Act had not been enacted and shall cease to be enforceable by or against the Reconstruction
Bank