Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India Act,1984
Act No : 62
Section :
Powers and duties of directors and administrators.
44. Powers and duties of directors and administrators.- (1) Subject to the control of the Reconstruction Bank, the directors, or, as the case may be, the administrators appointed under section 42, shall take such steps as may be necessary for the purpose of efficiently managing the business of the industrial concern and shall exercise such powers and have such duties as may be prescribed. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers vested in them under sub-section (1), the directors, or, as the case may be, the administrators appointed under section 42, may, with the previous approval of the Reconstruction Bank, make an application to a court for the purpose of cancelling or varying any contract or agreement entered into, at any time before the issue of the notified order under section 42, between the industrial concern and any other person, and the court may, if satisfied after due inquiry that such contract or agreement had been entered into in bad faith and is detrimental to the interests of the industrial concern, make an order cancelling or varying (either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as it may think fit to impose) 577 that contract or agreement and the contract or agreement shall have effect accordingly.