Hindustan Tractors Limited (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act,1978
Act No : 13
Section :
General effect of vesting.
4. General effect of vesting. (1) The undertakings of the Company referred to in section 3 shall be deemed to include all assets, rights, lease-holds, powers, authorities and privileges, and all property, movable and immovable, including, lands, buildings, workshops, stores, instruments, machinery and equipment, bank balances, cash balances, cash on hand, reserve funds, investments and 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 and shall be deemed to include the liabilities and obligations specified in sub-section (2) of section 5. (2) All property 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, tribunal, officer or other authority restricting the use of such property in any manner shall be deemed to have been withdrawn. 668 (3) Where any licence or other instrument in relation to the undertakings of the Company had been granted at any time before the appointed day, the Company by the Central Government, a State Government or any other authority, the Central Government, the State Government of Gujarat of, as the case may be, the Government company in which the right, title and interest of the Company in relation to its undertakings have vested under section 7, shall, on and from the appointed day, be deemed to be substituted in such licence or other instrument in place of the Company referred to therein as if such licence or other instrument had been granted to it and shall hold such licence or the undertakings or any part thereof specified in such other instrument for the remainder of the period for which the Company would have held such licence or undertakings or any part thereof under such other instrument. (4) 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. (5) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that the mortgagee of any property referred to in sub-section (4) 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 monies 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. (6) If, on the appointed day, any suit, appeal or other proceeding of whatever nature in relation to any matter specified in sub-section (2) of section 5 in respect of the undertakings of the Company instituted or preferred by or against the Company is pending, the same shall not abate, be 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, or the State Government, or where the undertakings of the Company are directed, under section 7, vest in a Government company, that Government company. 669
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