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The Bombay Statutory Corporations (Regional Reorganisation) Act, 1960

Bombay Act No. 21 of 1960

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(a) "existing corporation" means a body corporate constituted under any Act mentioned in the Schedule, or any such body which is deemed to be the body corporate for the purposes of any such Act, or which is performing the functions, discharging the duties and exercising the powers to any such body;

(b) "Gujarat region" means such area as the State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette, specify to be the Gujarat region;

(c) "Maharashtra region" means the area comprised in the pre-Reorganisation State of Bombay, excluding the transferred territories and also the Gujarat region,

(d) "region" means the Maharashtra region or the Gujarat region; and "regional" shall be construed accordingly.

(a) the dissolution of any existing corporation;

(b) the reorganization and reconstitution in any manner whatsoever of an existing corporation, including the constitution, where necessary, of one or more regional corporations;

(c) the area in which the existing corporation as reorganised, or any new corporation; shall function and operate;

(d) the nomination of a chairman or president of any existing corporation as reorganized, or of any new corporation;

(e) the nomination of such number of members to constitute any existing corporation as reorganized, or any new corporation for such period as may be specified in the order, or until a corporation is duly constituted for the region under any of the Acts aforesaid;

(f) the provision for a quorum for the meeting and other proceedings of an existing corporation as reorganized, or for any new corporation;

(g) where an existing corporation is a corporation sole, the appointment of any person to the office of that corporation as reorganised, or of any such new corporation;

(h) the appointment of any Registrar, or any other officer or person required to be appointed by or under any of the Acts aforesaid, and the terms and conditions of service applicable to him;

(i) the transfer in whole or in part of the assets, rights and liabilities of the existing corporation, including the rights and liabilities under any contract made by it, to one or more new corporations, and the terms of such transfer;

(j) the substitution of any such transferee of the existing corporation, or the addition of any such transferee, as a party to any legal proceedings or proceedings pending before any officer or authority, to which the existing corporation is a party;

(k) the transfer of any proceedings pending before any existing corporation or any officer authority, to any new corporation or any other officer or authority which may be designated;

(l) the transfer or re-employment of any employees of an existing corporation to, or by, any such transferee, and the terms and conditions of service applicable to such employees after such transfer or re-employment:

(m) that any register maintained by an existing corporation, shall be divided in such manner as is provided in the order, or that such registers shall be deemed to be prepared or maintained by the existing corporation as reorganized, or by any new corporation, or by each of them;

(n) that any person who immediately before a specified date is on any register or list prepared and maintained by any existing corporation under any of the Acts aforesaid, shall be entitled to practise in the area within the jurisdiction of the existing corporation as reorganized, or any new corporation, or within the jurisdiction of both of them;

(o) that any institution recognized or approved by any existing corporation shall be deemed to be recognized or approved by the existing corporation as re­organised, or by any new corporation, or by both of them, in such way and subject to such conditions as may be specified I the order;

(p) that a public trust, duly registered under the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950, the Property of which is wholly situated in one region and the registered office of which is in another region, or the property of which is partly situated in one region and partly in another, shall be deemed to be registered in a particular region, or in both regions;

(q) the division or re-allocation of any schemes which may be formulated, approved or sanctioned by the existing corporation, between the existing corporation as reorganized, and any new corporation, or between any new corporations;

(r) the provision for the right to recover any loans, subventions, contributions or other monies or any part thereof by the State Government, or by the existing corporation as reorganized, or by any new corporation;

(s) the provision that anything done or any action taken (including any appointment or delegation made, notification, order, instruction or direction issued, rule, regulation, form, bye-law or scheme framed, certificate obtained, permit or licence granted or registration effected) by the existing corporation shall be deemed to be a thing done or action taken by the existing corporation as reorganised or any new corporation, or by each of them;

(t) all incidental, consequential or supplementary matters as may be necessary to give effect to the establishment of regional corporations, and for the proper and just distribution of rights, assets and liabilities between them;

(u) the adaptation and modification of any of the Acts aforesaid under which an existing corporation is functioning and operating, whether by way of repeal or amendment, as may be necessary or expedient to give effect to the setting up of regional corporations.

The Schedule

[See sections 2 and 4]