Companies Act, 1956
Sec 620 - Power to modify Act in relation to Government
companies.
(1) The Central Government may, by notification
in the Official Gazette, direct that any of the provisions of this Act (other
than sections 618, 619 and 619A) specified in the notification :
(a) shall not apply to any Government company
; or
(b) shall apply to any Government company,
only with such exceptions, modifications and adaptations, as may be specified
in the notification.
(2) A copy of every notification proposed to
be issued under sub-section (1), shall be laid in draft before each House of
Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which may
be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if,
before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the
successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in disapproving the issue of
the notification or both Houses agree in making any modification in the
notification, the notification shall not be issued or, as the case may be,
shall be issued only in such modified form as may be agreed upon by both the
Houses.