Industrial Development Bank (Transfer of Undertaking and Repeal) Act, 2003
No: 53 Dated: Dec, 30 2003
Industrial Development Bank (Transfer of Undertaking and Repeal) Act, 2003
(Act No. 53 of 2003)
An Act to provide for the transfer and vesting of the undertaking of the Industrial Development Bank of India to, and in, the Company to be formed and registered as a Company under the Companies Act, 1956 to carryon banking business and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto and also to repeal the Industrial Development Bank of India Act, 1964.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows: -
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Industrial Development Bank (Transfer of Undertaking and Repeal) Act, 2003.
(2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification, appoint.
2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “appointed day” means such date as the Central Government may, by notification, appoint under section 3;
(b) “Company” means the Industrial Development Bank of India Limited to be formed and registered under the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956);
(c) “Development Bank” means the Industrial Development Bank of India established under sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Industrial Development Bank of India Act, 1964 (18 of 1964);
(d) “notification” means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (e) “Reserve Bank” means the Reserve Bank of India constituted under the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934).
CHAPTER II
TRANSFER AND VESTING OF THE UNDERTAKING OF DEVELOPMENT BANK IN COMPANY
3. Undertaking of Development Bank to vest in Company.—(1) On such date as the Central Government may, by notification, appoint, there shall be transferred to, and vest in, the Company, the undertaking of Development Bank.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949), the Company referred to in sub-section (1) shall be deemed to be a banking company within the meaning of clause (c) of section 5 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 and as such shall carryon banking business in accordance with the provisions of that Act,
Provided that such Company shall not be required to—
(a) obtain licence under section 22 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949);
(b) maintain for a period of five years from the appointed day the percentage of assets required to be maintained under section 24 of the said Act
Provided further that the provisions of clause (a) to the proviso, shall cease to be applicable immediately after the commencement of Part XIII of the Finance Act, 2021, and from such commencement, the Company shall be deemed to have obtained licence under section 22 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949).
(3) The provisions of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949) shall, as far as may be, to the extent they are not repugnant to any provision of this Act, apply to such Company.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Banking Regulation Act,1949 (10 of 1949), the Central Government may, in consultation with the Reserve Bank of India, by notification, direct that any of the provisions of that Act specified in the notification—
(a) shall not apply to the Company; or
(b) shall apply to the Company, only with such exceptions, modifications and the adaptations as may be specified in the notification.
(5) A copy of every notification proposed to be issued under sub-section (4), 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
4. General effect of transfer and vesting of undertaking.—(1) The Central Government, being the shareholder of the Development Bank and every other shareholder of the Development Bank immediately before the appointed day shall be deemed to be registered on and from the appointed day as a shareholder of the Company to the extent of the face value of the shares held by such shareholder.
(2) The undertaking of the Development Bank which is transferred to, and which vest in, the Company under section 3 shall be deemed to include all business, assets, rights, powers, authorities and privileges and all properties, movable and immovable, real and personal, corporeal and incorporeal, in possession or reservation, present or contingent of whatever nature and wheresoever situate including lands, buildings, vehicles, cash balances, deposits, foreign currencies, disclosed and undisclosed reserves, reserve fund, special reserve fund, benevolent reserve fund, any other fund, stocks, investments, shares, bonds, debentures, security, management of any industrial concern, loans, advances and guarantees given to any person or industrial concern, tenancies, leases and book debts and all other rights and interests arising out of such property as were immediately before the appointed day in the ownership, possession or power of the Development Bank in relation to its undertaking, within or without India, all books of account, registers, records and documents relating thereto and shall also be deemed to include all borrowings, liabilities and obligations of whatever kind within or without India then subsisting of the Development Bank in relation to its respective undertaking.
(3) All contracts, deeds, bonds, guarantees, powers of attorney, other instruments and working arrangements subsisting immediately before the appointed day and affecting the Development Bank shall cease to have effect or to be enforceable against the Development Bank and shall be of as full force and effect against or in favour of the Company in which the undertaking of the Development Bank has vested by virtue of this Act and enforceable as fully and effectually as if instead of the Development Bank, the Company had been named therein or had been a party thereto.
(4) Any proceeding or cause of action pending or existing immediately before the appointed day by or against the Development Bank in relation to its undertaking may, as from the appointed day, be continued and enforced by or against the Company in which the undertaking of the Development Bank has vested by virtue of this Act as it might have been enforced by or against the Development Bank if this Act had not been enacted and shall cease to be enforceable by or against the Development Bank