General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Act : Amount payable to shareholders may be paid to named

General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Act,1972

Act No : 57

Section : Amount payable to shareholders may be paid to named persons instead incertain cases.

14. Amount payable to shareholders may be paid to named persons instead in certain cases. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Act, if a majority in number of the persons, who, immediately before the appointed day, were registered in the books of an Indian insurance company as the members thereof, and representing two-thirds in value of the amount payable to the Indian insurance company, agree either in person or by proxy at a meeting specially convened for the purpose that the amount so payable instead of being distributed among the members, shall be given to any such person or body of persons as the members may nominate either at that meeting or subsequently for the purpose of carrying on any business, and the Central Government is satisfied that due provision has been or will be made for the payment of the value of their respective shares to persons who have dissented from the reasolution, the amount may be given to the person or body of persons so nominated in such manner and subject to such conditions as the Central Government may think fit. (2) No resolution passed at any such meeting as is referred to in sub-section (1) held after the appointed day shall have any effect unless the meeting has been convened after obtaining the approval of the Central Government.