Explanation
- For the purposes of this part generating company or companies,
shall mean the company or companies to be incorporated to implement
the reorganization of the Electricity Industry in the State and
distribution company of companies shall mean the or distribution
company or companies to be incorporated to implement the reorganization
of the Electricity Industry in the State.
(3) Such of the rights and powers exercisable by
the Board under the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948 (Central Act
No. 54 of 1948) as the State Government may, by notification specify,
shall be exercisable by the Corporation or generating company or
companies, or distribution company or companies, as the case may
be, for the purpose of discharging the functions and duties with
which it is charged.
(4) Notwithstanding any thing in this section,
where,-
The transfer scheme involves the transfer of any
property or rights to any person or undertaking not wholly owned
by the State Government, the scheme shall give effect to the transfer
only for fair value to be paid by the transferee to the State Government;
A transaction of any description is effected in pursuance of a transfer
scheme, it shall be binding on all persons including third parties
and even if such persons or third parties have not consented to
it.
(5) The State Government may, after consulting the Corporation (the
“transferor licensee”) or generating company or companies,
or distribution company or companies, as the case may be, require
them to draw up a transfer scheme to vest in a further licensee
(the “transferee licensee”) or any generating companies,
or distribution company or companies, any of the functions including
distribution function, property, interest in property, rights and
liabilities which have been vested in the transferor licensee or
generating companies, or distribution company or companies, as the
case may be under this section and publish the same as Statutory
Transfer Scheme under this Act. The Transfer Scheme to be notified
under this sub-section shall have the same effect as the Transfer
Scheme under sub-section (2).
(6) A transfer scheme may,-
(a) Provide for the formation of subsidiaries,
joint venture companies or other schemes of division, amalgamation,
merger, reconstruction or arrangements;
(b) Define the property, interest in property,
rights and liabilities to be allocated,-
By specifying or describing the property, rights
and liabilities in question;
By referring to all the property, interest in property, rights and
liabilities comprised in a specified part of the transferor’s
undertaking; or
Partly in one way and partly in the other;
(c) Provide that any rights or liabilities specified or described
in the scheme shall be enforceable by or against the transferor
or the transferee;
(d) Impose on the licensee an obligation to enter
into such written agreements with or execute such other instruments
in favor of, any other subsequent licensee as may be specified in
the scheme;
(e) Make such supplemental, incidental and consequential
provisions as the transferor licensee considers appropriate including
provision specifying the order in which any transfer or transaction
is to be regarded as taking effect; and
(f) Provide that the transfer shall be provisional
for a specified period.
(7) All debts and obligations incurred, all contracts
entered into and all matters and things engaged to be done by the
board, with the Board or for the Board, or the Corporation or generating
company or companies or distribution company or companies, before
a transfer scheme becomes effective shall, to the extent specified
in the relevant transfer scheme, be deemed to have been incurred,
entered into or done by the Board, with the Board or for the State
government or the transferee and all suits or other legal proceedings
instituted by or against the Board or transferor, as the case may
be, may be continued or instituted by or against the State government
or concerned transferee, as the case may be.
(8) In the event that a licensee is required to
vest any part of its undertaking in another licensee pursuant to
sub-section (5), the commission shall amend the transferee’s
license in accordance with section 22 or revoke its license in accordance
with section 21.
(9) The Board shall cease to be charged with, and
shall not perform, the functions and duties specified in sub-section
(3) with regard to transfers made on and after the effective date.
(10) The exercise by a licensee of any of the rights
of the Board and powers may be made on such conditions as may be
specified in the transfer scheme including a condition that they
shall be exercised by the licensee only with the approval of the
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