Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970
5.General effect of vesting.-
(1) The undertaking of each existing bank shall be deemed to
include all assets, rights, powers, authorities and privileges and all
property, movable and immovable, cash balances, reserve funds, investments and
all other rights and interests in, or arising out of, such property as were
immediately before the commencement of this Act in the ownership, possession,
power or control of the existing bank in relation to the undertaking, whether
within or without India, and all books of accounts, registers, records and all
other documents or whatever nature relating thereto and shall also be deemed to
include all borrowings, liabilities and obligations of whatever kind then
subsisting of the existing bank in relating to the undertaking.
(2) If, according to the laws of any country outside India, the
provisions of this Act by themselves are not effective to transfer or vest any
asset or liability situated in that country which forms part of the undertaking
of an existing bank to, or in, the corresponding new bank, the affaires of the
existing bank in relation to such asset or liability shall, on and from the
commencement of this Act, stand entrusted to the chief executive officer for
the time being of the corresponding new bank, and the chief executive officer
may exercise all powers and do all such acts and things as may be exercised or
done by the existing bank for the purpose of effectively transferring such
assets and discharging such liabilities.
(3) The chief executive officer of the corresponding new bank
shall, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (2), take all
such steps as may be required by the laws of any such country outside India for
the purpose of effecting such transfer or vesting, and may either himself or
through any person authorized by him in this behalf realize any asset and
discharge any liability of the existing bank.
(4) Unless otherwise expressly provided by this Act, all
contracts, deeds, bonds, agreements, powers of attorney, grants of legal
representation and other instruments of whatever nature subsisting or having
effect immediately before the commencement of this Act and to which the
existing bank is a party or which are in favor of the existing bank shall be of
as full force and effect against or in favor of the corresponding new bank, and
may be enforced or acted upon as fully and effectually as if in the place of
the existing bank the corresponding new bank had been a party thereto or as if
they had been issued in favor of the corresponding new bank.
(5) If, on the appointed day, any suit, appeal or other
proceeding of whatever nature in relation to any business of the undertaking
which has been transferred under section 4, is pending by or against the
existing bank, the same shall not abate, be discontinued or be, in any way,
prejudicially affected by reason of the transfer of the undertaking of the
existing bank or of anything contained in this Act but the suit, appeal or
other proceeding may be continued, prosecuted and enforced by or against the
corresponding new bank.
(6) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as applying to the assets,
rights, powers, authorities and privileges and property, movable and immovable,
cash balances and investments in any country outside India (and other rights
and interests in, or arising out of, such property) and borrowings, liabilities
and obligations of whatever kind subsisting at the commencement of this Act, of
any existing bank operating in the country if, under the laws in force in that
country, it is not permissible for a banking company, owned or controlled by
Government, to carry on the business of banking there.