Industrial Reconstruction Bank (Transfer of Undertaking and Repeal) Act,1997
Act No : 7
Section : PROVISIONS IN RESPECT OF OFFICERS AND OTHER EMPLOYEES OF RECONSTRUCTION BANK
SECTION 05: PROVISIONS IN RESPECT OF OFFICERS AND OTHER EMPLOYEES OF RECONSTRUCTION BANK
- (1) Every officer or other employee of the Reconstruction Bank (except a Director of the Board or the Chairman and Managing Director) serving in the employment immediately before the appointed day shall, in so far as such officer or other employee is employed in connection with the undertakings which have vested in the Company by virtue of this Act, become, as from the appointed day, an officer or, as the case may be, other employee of the Company and shall hold his office or service therein by the same tenure, at the same remuneration, upon the same terms and conditions, with the same obligations and with the same rights and privileges as to leave, leave fare concession, welfare scheme, medical benefit scheme, insurance, provident fund, other funds, retirement, voluntary retirement, gratuity and other benefits as he would have held under the Reconstruction Bank if its undertakings had not vested in the Company and shall continue to do so as an officer or, as the case may be, other employee of the Company or until the expiry of a period of six months from the appointed day if such officer or other employee opts not to continue to be the officer or other employee of the Company within such period.
(2) Where an officer or other employee of the Reconstruction Bank opts under sub- section (1) not to be in employment or service of the Company, such officer or other employee shall be deemed to have resigned.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947)-or in any other law for the time being in force, the transfer of the services of any officer or other employee of the Reconstruction Bank to-the Company shall not entitle such officer or other employee to any compensation under this Act or under any other law for the time being in force and no such claim shall be entertained by any court, tribunal or other authority.
(4) The officers and other employees who have retired before the appointed day from the service of the Reconstruction Bank and are entitled to any benefits, rights or privileges shall be entitled to receive the same benefits, rights or privileges from the Company.
(5) The trust of the provident fund or the gratuity fund of the Reconstruction Bank and any other bodies created for the welfare of officers or employees would continue to discharge their functions in the Company as was being done hitherto in the Reconstruction Bank and any tax exemption granted to the provident fund or the gratuity fund would continue to be applied to the Company.
(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956)-or in any other law for the time being in force or in the regulations of the Reconstruction Bank, no Director of the Board, Chairman and Managing Director or any other person entitled to manage the whole or substantial part of the business and affairs of the Reconstruction Bank shall be entitled to any compensation against the Reconstruction Bank or the Company for the loss of office or for the premature termination of any contract of management entered into by him with the Reconstruction Bank.
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