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Bengal Chemical and Pharmaceutical Works Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act,1980

Act No : 58


Section : GENERAL EFFECT OF VESTING

SECTION 04: GENERAL EFFECT OF VESTING.

(1) The undertakings of the Company shall be deemed to include all assets, rights, lease-holds, powers, authorities and privileges, and all property, movable and immovable, including lands, buildings, offices, factories, workshops, stores, instruments, plants, machinery and equipment, installations, laboratories, office furniture, stationary and equipment, vehicles, patents, trade marks, cash balances, cash on hand, reserve, funds, investments, book debts and all other rights and interests in, or arising out of such property as were immediately before the appointed day in the ownership, possession, power or control of the Company, whether within or outside India, and all books of account, registers and all other documents of whatever nature relating thereto.

(2) All properties and assets as aforesaid which have vested in the Central Government under section 3-shall, by force of such vesting, be freed and discharged from any trust, obligation, mortgage, charge, lien and all other encumbrances affecting them, and any attachment, injunction, decree or order of any court or other authority restricting the use of such properties or assets in any manner or appointing any receiver in respect of the whole or any part of such properties or assets shall be deemed to have been withdrawn.

(3) Every mortgagee of any property which has vested, under this Act in the Central Government and every person holding any charge, lien or other interest in, or in relation to, any such property shall give, within such time and in such manner as may be prescribed, an intimation to the Commissioner of such mortgage, charge, lien or other interest.

(4) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that the mortgagee of any property referred to in sub-section (3) or any other person holding any charge, lien or other interest in, or in relation to, any such property shall be entitled to claim, in accordance with his rights and interests, payment of the mortgage money or other dues, in whole or in part out of the amount specified in section 8-, and also out of the amounts determined under section 9-, but, no such mortgage, charge, lien or other interest shall be enforceable against any property which has vested in the Central Government.

(5) Any licence or other instrument granted to the Company in relation to any undertaking which has vested in the Central Government under section 3-at any time before the appointed day and in force immediately before the appointed day shall continue to be in force on and after such day in accordance with its tenor in relation to and for the purposes of such undertakings, and, on and, from the date of vesting of such undertaking, under section 6-, in an existing Government company, or under section 7-, in a new Government company, the existing, or new Government company, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be substituted in such licence or other instrument as if such licence or other instrument had been granted to such existing, or new Government company and such existing or new-Government Company shall hold it for the remainder the period for which the Company would have held it under the terms thereof.

(6) If on the appointed day, any suit, appeal or other proceeding, of whatever nature in relation to any property, or asset which has vested in the Central Government under section 3-instituted or preferred by or against the Company is pending, the same shall not abate, he discontinued or be in any way prejudicially affected by reason of the transfer of the undertakings of the Company or of anything contained in this Act, but the suit, appeal or other proceeding may be continued, prosecuted or enforced by or against the Central Government, or where the undertakings of the Company are directed under section 6-to vest in an existing Government company, or become transferred by virtue of the provisions of section 7-to a new Government company, by or against such Government company.



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