Act Number: 31

Act Name: The Land Ports Authority of India Act, 2010

Year: 2010

Enactment Date: 2010-08-31

Long Title: An Act to provide for the establishment of the Land Ports Authority of India to put in place systems which address security imperatives and for the development and management of facilities for cross border movement of passengers and goods at designated points along the international borders of India and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Border Management

Section 13: Assets and liabilities to vest in Authority.
    (1) On the date of notification issued under clause (d) of section 2, all such assets, rights, powers, authorities and privileges and such property movable and immovable, real or personal, corporeal or incorporeal, present or contingent, of whatever nature, including lands, buildings, machinery, equipments, works, workshops, cash balances, capital, reserves, reserve funds, investments, tenancies, losses and book debts and all other rights and interests arising out of such property, as immediately before the issue of that notification, were in the ownership or possession of the Government of India in any of the land port, as the Central Government may, in such notification, specify, shall vest in the Authority and such vesting shall also be deemed to include all borrowings, liabilities and obligations of whatever kind then subsisting.
     (2) The notification under sub-section (1) shall be issued only after the concurrence of the concerned ministries or departments of the Government of India, in case where such properties are owned or controlled by such ministries or departments.
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