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RECOVERY OF DEBTS DUE TO BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ACT, 1993
Title : RECOVERY OF DEBTS DUE TO BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ACT, 1993

Year : 1993

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CHAPTER VI

MISCELLANEOUS

31. Transfer of pending cases
(1) Every suit or other proceeding pending before any court immediately before the date of establishment of a Tribunal under this Act, being a suit or proceeding the cause of action whereon it is based is such that it would have been, if it had arisen after such establishment, within the jurisdiction of such Tribunal, shall stand transferred on that date to such Tribunal:

PROVIDED that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to any appeal pending as aforesaid before any court.

(2) Where any suit or other proceeding stands transferred from any court to a Tribunal under sub-section (1):

(a) the court shall, as soon as may be after such transfer, forward the records of such suit or other proceeding to the Tribunal; and

(b) the Tribunal may, on receipt of such records, proceed to deal with such suit or other proceeding, so far as may be, in the same manner as in the case of an application made under section 19 from the stage which was reached before such transfer or from any earlier stage 17[***] as the Tribunal may deem fit.

1[31A. Power of Tribunal to issue certificate of recovery in case of decree or order
(1) Where a decree or order was passed by any court before the commencement of the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions (Amendment) Act, 2000 and has not yet been executed, then, the decree-holder may apply to the Tribunal to pass an order for recovery of the amount.

(2) On receipt of an application under sub-section (1), the Tribunal may issue a certificate for recovery to a Recovery Officer.

(3) On receipt of a certificate under sub-section (2), the Recovery Officer shall proceed to recover the amount as if it was a certificate in respect of a debt recoverable under this Act.]

2[32. Chairperson, Presiding Officer and staff of Appellate Tribunal and Tribunal to be public servants
The Chairperson of an Appellate Tribunal, the Presiding Officer of a Tribunal, the Recovery Officer and other officers and employees of an Appellate Tribunal and a Tribunal shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).]

33. Protection of action taken in good faith
No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the Central Government or against 11[the Presiding Officer of a Tribunal or the Chairperson of an Appellate Tribunal] or against the Recovery Officer for anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of this Act or any rule or order made thereunder.

34. Act to have overriding effect
(1) Save as provided under sub-section (2), the provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law for the time being in force or in any instrument having effect by virtue of any law other than this Act.

(2) The provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder shall be in addition to and not in derogation of, the Industrial Finance Corporation Act, 1948 (15 of 1948), the State Financial Corporations Act, 1951 (63 of 1951), the Unit Trust of India Act, 1963 (52 of 1963), the Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India Act, 1984 (62 of 1984), and 18[the Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985 and the Small Industries Development Bank of India Act, 1989.]

35. Power to remove difficulties
(1) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the Central Government may, by order published in the Official Gazette, make such provisions, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as appear to it to be necessary or expedient for removing the difficulty:

PROVIDED that no such order shall be made after the expiry of the period of three years from the date of commencement of this Act.

(2) Every order made under this section shall, as soon as may be after it is made, be laid before each House of Parliament.

36. Power to make rules
(1) The Central Government may, by notification, make rules to carry out the provisions of this Act.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely,-

(a) the salaries and allowances and other terms and conditions of service of 19[the Chairpersons, the Presiding Officers], Recovery Officers and other officers and employees of the Tribunal and the Appellate Tribunals under sections 7, 12 and 13;

(b) the procedure for the investigation of misbehaviour or incapacity of 20[the Chairpersons of Appellate Tribunals and the Presiding Officers of the Tribunals] under sub-section (3) of section 15;

(c) the form in which an application may be made under section 19, the documents and other evidence by which such application shall be accompanied and the fees payable in respect of the filing of such application;

(d) the form in which an appeal may be filed before the Appellate Tribunal under section 20 and the fees payable in respect of such appeal;

(e) any other matter which is required to be, or may be, prescribed.

2[(3) Every Notification issued under sub-section (4) of section 1, section 3 and section 8 and every rule made by the Central Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, 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 making any modification in the notification or rule or both Houses agree that the notification or rule should not be issued or made, the notification or rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that notification or rule.]

37. Repeal and saving
(1) The Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Ordinance, 1993 (Ord. 25 of 1993), is hereby repealed.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the corresponding Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of this Act.

FOOT NOTES

1 Inserted by Amendment Act, 2000, w.e.f. 17th. January, 2000.

2 Substituted by Amendment Act, 2000, w.e. f. 17th. January, 2000.

3 Substituted by Amendment Act, 1995 for the words sixty years.

4 Substituted by Amendment Act, 2000, for the words with a Recovery Officer, w.e.f. 17th. January, 2000.

5 Substituted by Amendment Act, 2000, for the words the Recovery Officer, w.e.f. 17th. January, 2000.

6 Substituted by Amendment Act, 2000, for the words Recovery Officer, w.e.f. 17th. January, 2000.

7 Substituted by Amendment Act of 2000, for the words the Presiding Officer of the Appellate Tribunal, w.e.f. 17th. January, 2000.

8 Substituted for the words Presiding Officer of the Appellate Tribunal by Amendment Act of 2000, w.e.f. 17th. January, 2000.

9 Substituted by Amendment Act of 2000, for the words the Presiding Officer of an Appellate Tribunal, w.e.f. 17th. January, 2000.

10 Substituted for the words sixty-two years by Amendment Act, 1995.

11 Substituted by Amendment Act of 2000, for the words the Presiding Officer of a Tribunal or an Appellate Tribunal, w.e. f. 17th. January, 2000.

12 Substituted by Amendment Act of 2000, for the words the said Presiding Officers shall be varied to their w.e.f. 17th. January, 2000.

13 Substituted for the words the said Presiding Officer by Amendment Act of 2000, w.e.f. 17th. January, 2000.

14 Substituted for the words the Presiding Officer of an Appellate Tribunal by Amendment Act of 2000, w.e.f. 17th. January, 2000.

15 Substituted by Amendment Act, 2000, for the words the Presiding Officer concerned, w.e.f. 17th. January, 2000.

16 Substituted by Amendment Act, 2000, for the words the aforesaid Presiding Officer, w.e.f. 17th. January, 2000.

17 The words or de novo omitted by Amendment Act, 2000, w.e.f. 17th. January, 2000.

18 Substituted by Amendment Act 2000, for the words, brackets and figures the Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985, w.e.f. 17th. January, 2000.

19 Substituted for the words the Presiding Officers by Amendment Act, 2000, w.e.f. 17th. January, 2000.

20 Substituted for the words the Presiding Officers of the Tribunals and Appellate Tribunals by Amendment Act, 2000, for the words the Presiding Officers of the Tribunals and Appellate Tribunals, w.e.f. 17th. January, 2000.





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