Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act,2000
Act No : 29
Section :
Public Debt.
49. Public Debt.-(1) All liabilities on account of Public Debt and Public Account of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh outstanding immediately before the appointed day shall be apportioned in the ratio of population of the successor States unless a dif erent mode of apportionment is provided under the provisions of this Act. (2) The individual items of liabilities to be allocated to the successor States and the amount of contribution required to be made by one successor State to another shall be such as may be ordered by the Central Government in consultation with the Compt oller and Auditor-General of India: Provided that till such orders are issued, the liabilities on account of Public Debt and Public Account of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh shall continue to be the liabilities of the successor State of Uttar Pradesh. (3) The liability on account of loan raised from any source and re-lent by the existing State of Uttar Pradesh to such entities as may be specified by the Central Government and whose area of operation is confined to either of the successor States shall devolve on the respective States as specified in sub-section (4). (4) The public debt of the existing State of Uttar Pradesh attributable to loan taken from any source for the express purpose of re-lending the same to a specific institution and outstanding immediately before the appointed day shall,- (a) if re-lent to any local body, body corporate or other institution in any local area, be the debt of the State in which the local area is included on the appointed day; or (b) if re-lent to the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited, the Uttar Pradesh Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited, the Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited, the Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation, or the Uttar Pradesh Housing Board or a y other institution which becomes an inter-State institution on the appointed day, be divided between the States of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal in the same proportion in which the assets of such body corporate or institution are divided under the provi ions of Part VII. (5) Where a sinking fund or a depreciation fund is maintained by the existing State of Uttar Pradesh for repayment of any loan raised by it, the securities held in respect of investments made from that fund shall be divided between the successor States f Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal in the same proportion in which the total public debt is divided between the two States under this section. (6) In this section, the expression "Government security" means a security created and issued by a State Government for the purpose of raising a public loan and having any of the forms specified in, or prescribed under, clause (2) of section 2 of the Pu lic Debt Act, 1944 (18 of 1944).
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