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| THE BANKING COMPANIES (ACQUISITION AND TRANSFER OF UNDERTAKINGS), 1970 |
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Title : THE BANKING COMPANIES (ACQUISITION AND TRANSFER OF UNDERTAKINGS), 1970
Year : 1970
Act :
CHAPTER IV
MANAGEMENT OF CORRESPONDING NEW BANKS
7.Head office and management.
7. Head office and management. (1) The head office of each corresponding new bank shall be at such place as the Central
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf, and, until any such place is so specified, shall be at such place at which the head office of the existing bank, in relation to which it is the corresponding new bank, is on the commencement of this Act, located.
(2) The general superintendence, direction and management of the affairs and business of a corresponding new bank shall vest in a Board of Directors which shall be entitled to exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as the corresponding new bank is authorised to exercise and do.
(3) (a) As soon as may be after the appointed day, the Central
Government shall, in consultation with the Reserve Bank, constitute the first Board of Directors of a corresponding new bank, consisting of not more than seven persons, to be appointed by the Central
Government, and every director so appointed shall hold office until the Board of Directors of such corresponding new bank is constituted in accordance with the scheme made under section 9:
Provided that the Central Government may, if it is of opinion that it is necessary in the interests of the corresponding new bank so to do, remove a person from the membership of the first Board of
Directors and appoint any other person in his place.
(b) Every member of the first Board of Directors (not being an officer of the Central Government or of the Reserve Bank) shall receive such remuneration as is equal to the remuneration which a member of the Board of Directors of the existing bank was entitled to receive immediately before the commencement of this Act.
83.(4) Until the first Board of Directors is appointed by the
Central Government under sub-section (3), the general superintendence, direction and management of the affairs and business of a corresponding new bank shall vest in a Custodian, who shall be the chief executive officer of that bank and may exercise all powers and do all acts and things as may be exercised or done by that bank.
(5) The Chairman of an existing bank holding office as such immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall be the
Custodian of the corresponding new bank and shall receive the same emoluments as he was receiving immediately before such commencement:
Provided that the Central Government may, if the Chairman of an existing bank declines to become, or to continue to function as, a
Custodian of the corresponding new bank, or, if it is of opinion that it is necessary in the interests of the corresponding new bank so to do, appoint any other person as the Custodian of a corresponding new bank and the Custodian so appointed shall receive such emoluments as the Central Government may specify in this behalf.
(6) The Custodian shall hold office during the pleasure of the
Central Government.
8.Corresponding new banks to be guided by the directions of the
CentralGovernment.
8. Corresponding new banks to be guided by the directions of the
Central Government. Every corresponding new bank shall, in the discharge of its functions, be guided by such directions in regard to matters of policy involving public interest as the Central Government may, after consultation with the Governor of the Reserve Bank, give.
9.Power of Central Government to make scheme.
9. Power of Central Government to make scheme. (1) The Central
Government may, after consultation with the Reserve Bank, make a scheme for carrying out the provisions of this Act.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, the said scheme may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:--
(a) the capital structure of the corresponding new bank1***.
(b) the constitution of the Board of Directors, by whatever name called, of the corresponding new bank and all such matters in connection therewith or incidental thereto as the Central Government may consider to be necessary or expedient;
(c) the reconstitution of any corresponding new bank into two or more corporations, the amalgamation of any corresponding new bank with any other corresponding new bank or with another banking institution, the transfer of the whole or any part of the
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1 Omitted by Act 37 of 1994, s. 6 (w.e.f. 3-4-1995).
84.undertaking of a 1*[corresponding new bank to any other corresponding new bank or banking institution] or the transfer of the whole or any part of the undertaking of any other banking institution to a corresponding new bank;
(d) such incidental, consequential and supplemental matters as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this
Act.
(3) Every Board of Directors of a corresponding new bank, constituted under any scheme made under sub-section (1), shall include--
(a) representatives of the employees, and of depositors, of such bank, and
(b) such other persons as may represent the interests of each of the following categories, namely, farmers, workers and artisans,
to be elected or nominated in such manner as may be specified in the scheme.
(4) The Central Government may, after consultation with the
Reserve Bank, make a scheme to amend or vary any scheme made under sub-section (1).
3*[(5) On and from the date of coming into operation of a scheme made under this section with respect to any of the matters referred to in clause (c) of sub-section (2) or any matters incidental, consequential and supplemental thereto,--
(a) the scheme shall be binding on the corresponding new bank or corporations or banking institutions, and also on the members, if any, the depositors, and other creditors and employees of each of them and on any other persons having any right or liability in relation to any of them including the trustees or other persons, managing or in any other manner connected with, any provident fund or other fund maintained by any of them;
(b) the properties and assets of the corresponding new bank, or as the case may be, of the banking institution shall, by virtue of and to the extent provided in the scheme, stand transferred to, and vested in, and the liabilities of the corresponding new bank, or, as the case may be, of the banking institution shall, by virtue of, and to the extent provided in the scheme, stand transferred to, and become the liabilities of, the corporation or corporations brought into existence by reconstitution of the banking institution or the corresponding new bank, as the case may be.
4[Explanation I].--In this section, "banking institution" means a banking company and includes the State Bank of India or a subsidiary bank.]
5*[Explanation II.--For the purposes of this section, the expression "corresponding new bank" shall include a corresponding new bank within the meaning of the Banking Companies (Acquisition and
Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1980 (40 of 1980).]
6*[(6)] Every scheme 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 7*[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 scheme or both Houses agree that the scheme should not be made, the scheme 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 scheme.
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