The Andhra Pradesh reorganization Act, 2014
54. Public Debt.
1. All
liabilities on account of Public Debt and Public Account of the existing State
of Andhra Pradesh outstanding immediately before the appointed day shall be
apportioned on the basis of population ratio of the successor States unless a different
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 on the advice of the
Comptroller 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 Andhra
Pradesh shall continue to be the liabilities of the successor State of Andhra
Pradesh.
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3. The
liability on account of loan raised from any source and re-lent by the existing
State of Andhra 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 Andhra 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 any other corporation or institution which becomes
an inter- State corporation or institution on the appointed day, be divided
between the States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in the same proportion in
which the assets of such body corporate or institution are divided under the
provisions of Part VII.
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5. Where a
sinking fund or a depreciation fund is maintained by the existing State of
Andhra 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 of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana 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 Public Debt Act, 1944.