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The Industries(Development and Regulation) Act, 1951
(Act No. 65 of 1951)
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[31st October, 1951]
An Act to provide for the development and regulation of certain
industries
BE it enacted by Parliament as follows :-
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title, extent and commencement--(1) This Act may be called the
Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951.
(2) It extends to the whole of India
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Declaration as to expediency of control by the UnionC It is hereby
declared that it is expedient in the public interest that the Union should take
under its control the industries specified in the First Schedule.
3. Definitions In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires.--
(a) AAdvisory Council@ means the Central Advisory Council established under
section 5;
(aa) Aancillary industrial undertaking@ means an industrial undertaking which, in
accordance with the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 11B and the
requirements specified under that sub-section, is entitled to be regarded as an
ancillary industrial undertaking for the purposes of this Act;
(ab) Acurrent assets@ means bank balances and cash and includes such other
assets or reserves as are expected to be realised in cash or sold or consumed
within a period of not more than twelve months in the ordinary course of
business, such as, stock-in-trade, amounts due from sundry debtors for sale of
goods and for services rendered, advance tax payments and bills receivable, but
does not include sums credited to a provident fund, a pension fund, a gratuity
fund or any other fund for the welfare of the employees, maintained by a
company owning an industrial undertaking;
(ac) Acurrent liabilities@ means liabilities which must be met on demand or
within a period of twelve months from the date they are incurred; and includes
any current liability which is suspended under section 18FB;
(b) ADevelopment Council@ means a Development Council established under
section 6;
(bb) Aexisting industrial undertaking@ means --
(a) in the case of an industrial undertaking pertaining to any of the industries
specified in the First Schedule as originally enacted, an industrial undertaking
which was in existence on the commencement of this Act or for the
establishment of which effective steps had been taken before such
commencement, and
(b) in the case of an industrial undertaking pertaining to any of the industries
added to the First Schedule by an amendment thereof, an industrial undertaking
which is in existence on the coming into force of such amendment or for the
establishment of which effective steps had been taken before the coming into
force of such amendment;
(c) Afactory@ means any premises, including the precincts thereof, in any part of
which a manufacturing process is being carried on or is ordinarily so carried on--
(i) with the aid of power, provided that fifty or more workers are working or were
working thereon on any day of the preceding twelve months; or
(ii) without the aid of power, provided that on hundred or more workers are
working or were working thereon on any day of the preceding twelve months and
provided further that in no part of such premises any manufacturing process is
being carried on with the aid of power;
(cc) AHigh Court@ means the High Court having jurisdiction in relation the place
at which the registered office of a company is situate;
(d) Aindustrial undertaking@ means any undertaking pertaining to a scheduled
industry carried on in one or more factories by any person or authority including
Government;
(ad) Anew article@, in relation to an industrial undertaking which is registered or
in respect of which a licence or permission has been issued under this Act,
means --
(a) any article which falls under an item in the First Schedule other than the item
under which articles ordinarily manufactured or produced in the industrial
undertaking at the date of registration or issue of the licence or permission, as
the case may be, fall;
(b) any article which bears a mark as defined in the Trade Marks Act, 1940 (5 of
1940), or which is the subject of a patent, if at the date of registration or issue of
the licence or permission, as the case may be, the industrial undertaking was not
manufacturing or producing such article bearing that mark or which is the subject
of that patent;
(e) Anotified order@ means an order notified in the Official Gazette;
(f) Aowner@, in relation to an industrial undertaking, means the person who, or
the authority which, has the ultimate control over the affairs of the undertaking,
and, where the said affairs are entrusted to a manager, managing director or
managing agent, such manager, managing director or managing agent shall be
deemed to be the owner of the undertaking;
(g) Aprescribed@ means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(h) Aschedule@ means a Schedule to this Act;
(i) Ascheduled industry@ means any of the industries specified in the First
Schedule;
(j) Asmall scale industrial undertaking@ means an industrial undertaking which,
in accordance with the requirements specified under sub-section (1) of section
11B, is entitled to be regarded as a small scale industrial undertaking for the
purposes of this Act;
(k) words and expressions used herein but not defined in this Act and defined in
the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), have the meanings respectively assigned
to them in that Act.
4. [Saving.] Rep., by the Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment
Act, 1953 (26 of 1953), s.3 (w.e.f. 1.10.1953).
CHAPTER II
THE CENTRAL ADVISORY COUNCIL AND DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS
5. Establishment and constitution of Central Advisory Council and its
functions.- (1) For the purpose of advising it on matters concerning the
development and regulation of scheduled industries, the Central Government
may, by notified order, establish a Council to be called the Central Advisory
Council.
(2) The Advisory Council shall consist of a Chairman and such other members,
not exceeding thirty in number, all of whom shall be appointed by the Central
Government from among persons who are in its opinion capable of representing
the interests of-
(a) owners of industrial undertakings in scheduled industries;
(b) persons employed in industrial undertakings in scheduled industries;
(c) consumers of goods manufactured or produced by scheduled industries;
(d) such other class of persons including primary producers, as in the opinion of
the Central Government, ought to be represented on the Advisory Council.
(3) The term of office of, the procedure to be followed in the discharge of their
functions by, and the manner of filling casual vacancies among, members of the
Advisory Council, shall be such as may be prescribed.
(4) The Central Government shall consult the Advisory Council in regard to-
(a) the making of any rules, other than the first rules to be made under sub-
section(3); and may consult the Advisory Council in regard to any other matter
connected with the administration of this Act in respect of which the Central
Government may consider it necessary to obtain the advice of the Advisory
Council.
6. Establishment and constitution of Development Councils and their
functions - (1)The Central Government may, by notified order, establish for any
scheduled industry or group of scheduled industries, a body of persons to be
called a Development Council which shall consist of members who in the opinion
of the Central Government are-
(a) persons capable of representing the interests of owners of industrial
undertakings in the scheduled industry or group of scheduled industries;
(b) persons having special knowledge of matters relating to the technical or other
aspects of the scheduled industry or group of scheduled industries;
(c) persons capable of representing the interests of persons employed in
industrial undertakings in the scheduled industry or group of scheduled
industries;
(d) persons not belonging to any of the aforesaid categories, who are capable of
representing the interests of consumers of goods manufactured or produced by
the scheduled industry or group of scheduled industries.
(2) The number and the term of office of, and the procedure to be followed in the
discharge of their functions by, and the manner of filling casual vacancies among
members of a Development Council shall be such as may be prescribed.
(3) Every Development Council shall be, by virtue of this Act, a body corporate by
such name as may be specified in the notified order establishing it, and may hold
and transfer property and shall by the said name sue and be sued.
(4) A Development Council shall perform such functions of a kind specified in the
Second Schedule as may be assigned to it by the Central Government and for
whose exercise by the Development Council it appears to the Central
Government expedient to provide in order to increase the efficiency or
productivity in the scheduled industry or group of scheduled industries for which
the Development Council is established, to improve or develop the service that
such industry or group of industries renders or could render to the community, or
to enable such industry or group of industries to render such service more
economically.
(5) A Development Council shall also perform such other functions as it may be
required to perform by or under any other provision of this Act.
7. Reports and Accounts of Development Councils.- (1) A Development
Council shall prepare and transmit to the Central Government and the Advisory
Council, annually, a report setting out what has been done in the discharge of its
functions during the financial year last completed.
(2) The Report shall include a statement of the account of the Development
Council for that year, and shall be transmitted as soon as accounts therefor have
been audited, together with a copy of any report made by the auditors on the
accounts.
(3) The statement of account shall be in such form as may be prescribed being a
form which shall conform to the best commercial standards, and the statement
shall show the total of remuneration and allowances paid during the year to
members and officers of the Council.
(4) A copy of each such report of a Development Council, or made by the
auditors on its accounts, shall be laid before Parliament by the Central
Government.
8. Dissolution of Development Council - (1) The Central Government may, if it
is satisfied that a Development Council should cease to continue in being, by
notified order, dissolve that Development Council.
(2) On the dissolution of a Development Council under sub-section (1), the
assets of the Development Council, after its liabilities, if any, are met therefrom,
shall vest in the Central Government for the purposes of this Act.
9. Imposition of cess on scheduled industries in certain cases - (1) There
may be levied and collected as a cess for the purposes of this Act on all goods
manufactured or produced in any such scheduled industry as may be specified in
this behalf by the Central Government by notified order a duty of excise at such
rate as may be specified in the notified order, and different rates may be
specified for different goods or different classes of goods:
Provided that no such rate shall in any case exceed two annas per cent of the
value of the goods.
Explanation.- In this sub-section, the expression Avalue@ in relation to any
goods shall be deemed to be the wholesale cash price for which such goods of
the like kind and quality are sold or are capable of being sold for delivery at the
place of manufacture and at the time of their removal therefrom, without any
abatement or deduction whatever except trade discount and the amount of duty
then payable.
(2) The cess shall be payable at such intervals, within such time and in such
manner as may be prescribed, and any rules made in this behalf may provide for
the grant of a rebate for prompt payment of the cess.
(3) The said cess may be recovered in the same manner as an arrear of land
revenue.
(4) The Central Government may hand over the proceeds of the cess collected
under this section in respect of the goods manufactured or produced by any
scheduled industry or group of scheduled industries to the Development Council
established for that industry or group of industries, and where it does so, the
Development Council shall utilise the said proceeds -
(a) to promote scientific and industrial research with reference to the scheduled
industry or group of scheduled industries in respect of which the Development
Council is established;
(b) to promote improvements in design and quality with reference to the products
of such industry or group of industries;
(c) to provide for the training of technicians and labour in such industry or group
of industries;
(d) to meet such expenses in the exercise of its functions and its administrative
expenses as may be prescribed.
CHAPTER III
REGULATION OF SCHEDULED INDUSTRIES
10. Registration of existing industrial undertakings C (1) The owner of every
existing industrial undertaking, not being the Central Government, shall, within
such period as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official
Gazette, fix in this behalf with respect to industrial undertakings generally or with
respect to any class of them, register the undertaking in the prescribed manner.
(2) The Central Government shall also cause to be registered in the same
manner every existing industrial undertaking of which it is the owner.
(3) Where an industrial undertaking is registered under this section, there shall
be issued to the owner of the undertaking or the Central Government, as the
case may be, a certificate of registration containing the productive capacity of the
industrial undertaking and such other particulars as may be prescribed.
(4) The owner of every industrial undertaking to whom a certificate of registration
has been issued under this section before the commencement of the Industries
(Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 1973 (67 of 1973), shall, if the
undertaking falls within such class of undertakings as the Central Government
may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf, produce, within
such period as may be specified in such notification, the certificate of registration
for entering therein the productive capacity of the industrial undertaking and other
prescribed particulars.
(5) In specifying the productive capacity in any certificate of registration issued
under sub-section (3), the Central Government shall take into consideration the
productive or installed capacity of the industrial undertaking as specified in the
application for registration made under sub-section (1), the level of production
immediately before the date on which the application for registration was made
under sub-section (1), the level of the highest annual production during the three
years immediately preceding the introduction in Parliament of the Industries
(Development and Regulation) amendment Bill, 1973, the extent to which
production during the said period was utilised for export and such other factors
as the Central Government may consider relevant including the extent of
underutilisation of capacity, if any, during the relevant period due to any cause.
10A. Revocation of registration in certain cases C If the Central Government
is satisfied that the registration of any industrial undertaking has been obtained
by misrepresentation as to an essential fact or that any industrial undertaking has
ceased to be registrable under this Act by reason of any exemption granted
under this Act becoming applicable thereto or that for any other reason the
registration has become useless or ineffective and therefore requires to be
revoked the Central Government may after giving an opportunity to the owner of
the undertaking to be heard revoke the registration.
11. Licensing of new industrial undertakings C (1) No person or authority
other than the Central Government, shall, after the commencement of this Act,
establish any new industrial undertaking, except under and in accordance with a
licence issued in that behalf by the Central Government:
Provided that a Government other than the Central Government may, with the
previous permission of the Central Government, establish a new industrial
undertaking.
(2) A licence or permission under sub-section (1) may contain such conditions
including, in particular, conditions as to the location of the undertaking and the
minimum standards in respect of size to be provided therein as the Central
Government may deem fit to impose in accordance with the rules, if any, made
under section 30.
11A. Licence for producing or manufacturing new articles C The owner of an
industrial undertaking not being the Central Government which is registered
under section 10 or in respect of which a licence or permission has been issued
under section 11 shall not produce or manufacture any new article unless --
(a) in the case of an industrial undertaking registered under section 10, he has
obtained a licence for producing or manufacturing such new article; and
(b) in the case of an industrial undertaking in respect of which a licence or
permission has been issued under section 11, he has had the existing licence or
permission amended in the prescribed manner.
11B. Power of Central Government to specify the requirements which shall
be complied with by small scale industrial undertakings - (1) The Central
Government may, with a view to ascertaining which ancillary and small scale
industrial undertakings need supportive measures, exemptions or other
favourable treatment under this Act to enable them to maintain their viability and
strength so as to be effective in -
(a) promoting in a harmonious manner the industrial economy of the country and
easing the problem of unemployment, and
(b) securing that the ownership and control of the material resources of the
community are so distributed as best to subserve the common good,
specify, having regard to the factors mentioned in sub-section (2), by notified
order, the requirements which shall be complied with by an industrial undertaking
to enable it to be regarded, for the purposes of this Act, as an ancillary, or a small
scale, industrial undertaking and different requirements may be so specified for
different purposes or with respect to industrial undertakings engaged in the
manufacture or production of different articles :
Provided that no industrial undertaking shall be regarded as an ancillary
industrial undertaking unless it is, or is proposed to be, engaged in -
(i) the manufacture of parts, components, sub-assemblies, toolings or
intermediates; or
(ii) rendering of services, or supplying or rendering, not more than fifty per cent of
its production or its total services, as the case may be, to other units for
production of other articles.
(2) The factors referred to in sub-section (1) are the following, namely :-
(a) the investment by the industrial undertaking in -
(i) plant and machinery, or
(ii) land, buildings, plant and machinery;
(b) the nature of ownership of the industrial undertaking;
(c) the smallness of the number of workers employed in the industrial
undertaking;
(d) the nature, cost and quality of the product of the industrial undertaking;
(e) foreign exchange, if any, required for the import of any plant or machinery by
the industrial undertaking; and
(f) such other relevant factors as may be prescribed.
(3) A copy of every notified order proposed to be made under sub-section (1)
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 proposed notified order or both Houses agree in
making any modification in the proposed notified order, the notified order shall
not be made, or, as the case may be, shall be made only in such modified form
as may be agreed upon by both the Houses.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), an industrial
undertaking which, according to the law for the time being in force, fell,
immediately before the commencement of the Industries (Development and
Regulation) Amendment Act, 1984, under the definition of an ancillary, or small
scale, industrial undertaking, shall, after such commencement, continue to be
regarded as an ancillary, or small scale, industrial undertaking for the purposes
of this Act until the definition aforesaid is altered or superseded by any notified
order made under sub-section (1).
12. Revocation and amendment of licences in certain cases - (1) If the
Central Government is satisfied, either on a reference made to it in this behalf or
otherwise, that any person or authority, to whom or to which, a licence has been
issued under section 11, has, without reasonable cause, failed to establish or to
take effective steps to establish the new industrial undertaking in respect of
which the licence has been issued within the time specified therefor or within
such extended time as the Central Government may think fit to grant in any case,
it may revoke the licence.
(2) Subject to any rules that may be made in this behalf, the Central Government
may also vary or amend any licence issued under section 11:
Provided that no such power shall be exercised after effective steps have been
taken to establish the new industrial undertaking in accordance with the licence
issued in this behalf.
(3) The provisions of this section shall apply in relation to a licence issued under
section 11A or where a licence has been amended under that section, to the
amendment thereof, as they apply in relation to a licence issued under section
11.
13. Further provision for licensing or industrial undertakings in special
cases - (1) No owner of an industrial undertaking, other than the Central
Government, shall -
(a) in the case of an industrial undertaking required to be registered under
section 10, but which has not been registered within the time fixed for the
purpose under that section, carry on the business of that undertaking after the
expiry of such period, or
(b) in the case of an industrial undertaking the registration in respect of which has
been revoked under section 10A, carry on the business of the undertaking after
the revocation, or
(c) in the case of an industrial undertaking to which the provisions of this Act did
not originally apply but became applicable after the commencement of this Act
for any reason, carry on the business of the undertaking after the expiry of three
months from the date on which the provisions of this Act became so applicable,
or
(d) effect any substantial expansion of an industrial undertaking which has been
registered or in respect of which a licence or permission has been issued, or
(e) change the location of the whole or any part of an industrial undertaking
which has been registered,
except under, and in accordance with, a licence issued in that behalf by the
Central Government, and, in the case of a State Government, except under and
in accordance with the previous permission of the Central Government.
(2) The provisions of sub-section (2) of section 11 and of section 12 shall apply,
so far as may be, in relation to the issue of licences or permissions to any
industrial undertaking referred to in this section as they apply in relation to the
issue of licences or permissions to a new industrial undertaking.
Explanation - For the purposes of this section, Asubstantial expansion@means
the expansion of an existing industrial undertaking which substantially increases
the productive capacity of the undertaking, or which is of such a nature as to
amount virtually to a new industrial undertaking, but does not include any such
expansion as is normal to the undertaking having regard to its nature and the
circumstances relating to such expansion.
14. Procedure for the grant of licence or permission - Before granting any
licence or permission under section 11, section 11A, section 13 or section 29B,
the Central Government may require such officer or authority as it may appoint
for the purpose, to make a full and complete investigation in respect of
applications received in this behalf and report to it the result of such investigation
and in making any such investigation, the officer or authority shall follow such
procedure as may be prescribed.
15. Power to cause investigation to be made into scheduled industries or
industrial undertakings - Where the Central Government is of the opinion that -
(a) in respect of any scheduled industry or industrial undertaking or undertakings-
(i) there has been, or is likely to be, a substantial fall in the volume of production
in respect of any article or class of articles relatable to that industry or
manufactured or produced in the industrial undertaking or undertakings, as the
case may be; for which, having regard to the economic conditions prevailing,
there is no justification; or
(ii) there has been, or is likely to be, a marked deterioration in the quality of any
article or class of articles relatable to that industry or manufactured or produced
in the industrial undertaking or undertakings, as the case may be, which could
have been or can be avoided; or
(iii) there has been or is likely to be a rise in the price of any article or class of
articles relatable to that industry or manufactured or produced in the industrial
undertaking or undertakings, as the case may be, for which there is no
justification; or
(iv) it is necessary to take any such action as is provided in this Chapter for the
purpose of conserving any resources of national importance which are utilised in
the industry or the industrial undertaking or undertakings, as the case may be; or
(b) any industrial undertaking is being managed in a manner highly detrimental to
the scheduled industry concerned or to public interest,
the Central Government may make or cause to be made a full and complete
investigation into the circumstances of the case by such person or body of
persons as it may appoint for the purpose.
15A. Power to investigate into the affairs of a company in liquidation - (1)
Where a company, owing an industrial undertaking, is being wound up by or
under the supervision of the High Court, and the business of such company is
not being continued, the Central Government may, if it is of opinion that it is
necessary, in the interests of the general public and, in particular, in the interests
of production, supply or distribution of articles or class of articles relatable to the
concerned scheduled industry, to investigate into the possibility of running or re-
starting the industrial undertaking, make an application to the High Court praying
for permission to make, or cause to be made, an investigation into such
possibility by such person or body of persons as that Government may appoint
for the purpose.
(2) Where an application is made by the Central Government under sub-section
(1), the High Court shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the Companies
Act, 1956 (7 of 1956), or in any other law for the time being in force, grant the
permission prayed for.
16. Powers of Central Government on completion of investigation under
section 15- (1) If after making or causing to be made any such investigation as is
referred to in section 15 the Central Government is satisfied that action under this
section is desirable, it may issue such directions to the industrial undertaking or
undertakings concerned as may be appropriate in the circumstances for all or
any of the following purposes, namely:-
(a) regulating the production of any article or class of articles by the industrial
undertaking or undertakings and fixing the standards of production;
(b) requiring the industrial undertaking or undertakings to take such steps as the
Central Government may consider necessary to stimulate the development of the
industry to which the undertaking or undertakings relates or relate;
(c) prohibiting the industrial undertaking or undertakings from resorting to any act
or practice which might reduce its or their production, capacity or economic
value;
(d) controlling the prices, or regulating the distribution, of any article or class of
articles which have been the subject-matter of investigation.
(2) Where a case relating to any industry or industrial undertaking or
undertakings is under investigation, the Central Government may issue at any
time any direction of the nature referred to in sub-section (1) to the industrial
undertaking or undertakings concerned, and any such direction shall have effect
until it is varied or revoked by the Central Government.
17. [Special provisions for direct control by Central Government in certain cases.]
Rep. by the Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 1953 (26
of 1953), s.12 (w.e.f. 1-10-1053).
18. Power of person or body of persons appointed under section 15 to call
for assistance in any investigation - (1) The person or body of persons
appointed to make any investigation under section 15 [or section 15A] may
choose one or more persons possessing special knowledge of any matter
relating to the investigation to assist him or it in holding the investigation.
(2) The person or body of persons so appointed shall have all the powers of a
civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), for the purpose of
taking evidence on oath (which he or it is hereby empowered to administer) and
of enforcing the attendance of witnesses and compelling the production of
documents and material objects, and the person or body of persons shall be
deemed to be a civil court for all the purposes of section 195 and Chapter XXXV
of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898).
CHAPTER IIIA
DIRECT MANAGEMENT OR CONTROL OF INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS
BY CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IN CERTAIN CASES
18A. Power of Central Government to assume management or control of an
industrial undertaking in certain cases - (1) If the Central Government is of
opinion that -
(a) an industrial undertaking to which directions have been issued in pursuance
of section 16 has failed to comply with such directions, or
(b) an industrial undertaking in respect of which an investigation has been made
under section 15 (whether or not any directions have been issued to the
undertaking in pursuance of section 16), is being managed in a manner highly
detrimental to the scheduled industry concerned or to public interest,
the Central Government may, by notified order, authorise any person or body of
persons to take over the management of the whole or any part of the undertaking
or to exercise in respect of the whole or any part of the undertaking such
functions of control as may be specified in the order.
(2) Any notified order issued under sub-section (1) shall have effect for such
period not exceeding five years as may be specified in the order:
[Provided that if the Central Government is of opinion that it is expedient in the
public interest that any such notified order should continue to have effect after
the expiry of the period of five years aforesaid, it may from time to time issue
directions for such continuance for such period, not exceeding two years at a
time, as may be specified in the direction, so however that the total period of
such continuance (after the expiry of the said period of five years) does not
exceed [twelve years]; and where any such direction is issued, a copy thereof
shall be laid, as soon as may be, before both Houses of Parliament.]
Explanation - The power to authorise a body of persons under this section to take
over the management of an industrial undertaking which is a company includes
also a power to appoint any individual, firm or company to be the managing
agent of the industrial undertaking on such terms and conditions as the Central
Government may think fit.
18AA. Power to take over industrial undertakings without investigation
under certain circumstances - (1) Without prejudice to any other provision of
this Act, if, from the documentary or other evidence in its possession, the Central
Government is satisfied, in relation to an industrial undertaking, that -
(a) the persons in charge of such industrial undertaking have, by reckless
investments or creation of incumbrances on the assets of the industrial
undertaking, or by diversion of funds, brought about a situation which is likely to
affect the production of articles manufactured or produced in the industrial
undertaking, and that immediate action is necessary to prevent such a situation;
or
(b) it has been closed for a period of not less than three months (whether by
reason of the voluntary winding up of the company owing the industrial
undertaking or for any other reason) and such closure is prejudicial to the
concerned scheduled industry and that the financial condition of the company
owing the industrial undertaking and the condition of the plant and machinery of
such undertaking are such that it is possible to re-start the undertaking and such
re-starting is necessary in the interests of the general public.
it may, by a notified order, authorise any person or body of persons (hereafter
referred to as the Aauthorised person@) to take over the management of the
whole or any part of industrial undertaking or to exercise in respect of the whole
or any part of the undertaking such functions of control as may be specified in the
order.
(2) The provisions of sub-section (2) of section 18A shall, as far as may be, apply
to a notified order made under sub-section (1) as they apply to a notified order
made under sub-section (1) of section 18A.
(3) Nothing contained in sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) shall apply to an
industrial undertaking owned by a company which is being wound up by or under
the supervision of the court.
(4) Where any notified order has been made under sub-section (1), the person or
body of persons having for the time being, charge of the management or control
of the industrial undertaking, whether by or under the orders of any court or any
contract, instrument or otherwise, shall, notwithstanding anything contained in
such order, contract, instrument or other arrangement, forthwith make over the
charge of management or control, as the case may be, of the industrial
undertaking to the authorised person.
(5) The provisions of sections 18B to 18E (both inclusive) shall, as far as may be,
apply to, or in relation to, the industrial undertaking, in respect of which a notified
order has been made under sub-section (1), as they apply to an industrial
undertaking in relation to which a notified order has been issued under section
18A.
18B. Effect of notified order under section 18A - (1) On the issue of a notified
order under section 18A authorizing the taking over of the management of an
industrial undertaking-
(a) all persons in charge of the management, including persons holding office as
managers or directors of the industrial undertaking immediately before the issue
of the notified order, shall be deemed to have vacated their offices as such;
(b) any contract of management between the industrial undertaking and any
managing agent or any director thereof holding office as such immediately before
the issue of the notified order shall be deemed to have terminated;
(c) the managing agent, if any appointed under section 18A, shall be deemed to
have been duly approinted as the managing agent in pursuance of the Indian
Companies Act, 1913 (7 of 1913)[See now the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of
1956)], and the memorandum and articles of association of the industrial
undertaking, and the provisions of the said Act and of the memorandum and
articles shall, subject to the other provisions contained in this Act, apply
accordingly, but no such managing agent shall be removed from office except
with the previous consent of the Central Government;
(d) the person or body of persons authorized under section 18A to take over the
management shall take all such steps as may be necessary to take into his or
their custody or control all the property, effects and actionable claims to which
the industrial undertaking is or appears to be entitled, and all the property and
effects of the industrial undertaking shall be deemed to be in the custody of the
person or, as the case may be, the body of persons as from the date of the
notified order; and
(e) the persons, if any, authorized under section 18A to take over the
management of an industrial undertaking which is a company shall be for all
purposes the directors of the industrial undertaking duly constituted under the
Indian Companies Act, 1913 (7 of 1913)[See now the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of
1956)], and shall alone be entitled to exercise all the powers of the directors of
the industrial undertaking, whether such powers are derived from the said Act or
from the memorandum or articles of association of the industrial undertaking or
from any other source.
(2) Subject to the other provisions contained in this Act and to the control of the
Central Government, the person or body of persons authorized to take over the
management of an industrial undertaking, shall take such steps as may be
necessary for the purpose of efficiently managing the business of the industrial
undertaking and shall exercise such other powers and have such other duties as
may be prescribed.
(3) Where any person or body of persons has been authorized to exercise any
functions of control in relation to an industrial undertaking, the undertaking shall
be carried on pursuant to any directions given by the authorized person in
accordance with the provisions of the notified order, and any person having any
functions of management in relation to the undertaking or part thereof shall
comply with all such directions.
(4) The person or body of persons authorized under section 18A shall,
notwithstanding anything contained in the memorandum or articles of association
of the industrial undertaking, exercise his or their functions in accordance with
such directions as may be given by the Central Government so, however, that he
or they shall not have any power to give any other person any directions under
this section inconsistent with the provisions of any Act or instrument determining
the functions of the authority carrying on the undertaking except in so far as may
be specifically provided by the notified order.
18C. Contracts in bad faith, etc., may be cancelled or varied - Without
prejudice to the provisions contained in section 18B, the person or body of
persons authorized under section 18A to take over the management of an
industrial undertaking may, with the previous approval of the Central
Government, make an application to any court having jurisdiction in this behalf
for the purpose of cancelling or varying any contract or agreement entered into,
at any time before the issue of the notified order under section 18A, between the
industrial undertaking and any other person and the court may, if satisfied after
due inquiry that such contract or agreement had been entered into in bad faith
and is, detrimental to the interests of the industrial undertaking, make an order
cancelling or varying (either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as it
may think fit to impose) that contract or agreement, and the contract or
agreement shall have effect accordingly.
18D. No right to compensation for termination of office or contract -
Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force, no
person who ceases to hold any office by reason of the provisions contained in
clause (a) of section 18B, or whose contract of management is terminated by
reason of the provisions contained in clause (b) of that section, shall be entitled
to any compensation for the loss of office or for the premature termination of his
contract of management:
Provided that nothing contained in this section shall affect the right of any such
person to recover from the industrial undertaking moneys recoverable otherwise
than by way of such compensation.
18E. Application of Act 7 of 1913 - (1) Where the management of an industrial
undertaking, being a company as defined in the Indian Companies Act,
1913(Now the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), is taken over by the Central
Government, then, notwithstanding anything contained in the said Act or in the
memorandum or articles of association of such undertaking,-
(a) it shall not be lawful for the shareholders of such undertaking or any other
person to nominate or appoint any person to be a director of the undertaking;
(b) no resolution passed at any meeting of the shareholders of such undertaking
shall be given effect to unless approved by the Central Government;
(c) no proceeding for the winding up of such undertaking or for the appointment
of a receiver in respect thereof shall lie in any court except with the consent of
the Central Government.
(2) Subject to the provisions contained in sub-section (1), and to the other
provisions contained in this Act and subject to such other exceptions, restrictions
and limitations, if any, as the Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, specify in this behalf, the Indian Companies Act, 1913(now the
Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), shall continue to apply to such undertaking in
the same manner as it applied thereto before the issue of the notified order under
section 18A.
18F. Power of Central Government to cancel notified order under section
18A - If at any time it appears to the Central Government on the application of
the owner of the Industrial undertaking or otherwise that the purpose of the order
made under section 18A has been fulfilled or that for any other reason it is not
necessary that the order should remain in force, the Central Government may, by
notified order, cancel such order and on the cancellation of any such order the
management or the control, as the case may be, of the industrial undertaking
shall vest in the owner of the undertaking.
CHAPTER IIIAA
MANAGEMENT OR CONTROL OF INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS OWNED
BY COMPANIES IN LIQUIDATION
18FA. Power of Central Government to authorise, with the permission of
the High Court, persons to take over management or control of industrial
undertakings - (1) If the Central Government is of opinion that there are
possibilities of running or re-starting an industrial undertaking, in relation to which
an investigation has been made under section 15A, and that such industrial
undertaking should be run or re-started, as the case may be, for maintaining or
increasing the production, supply or distribution of articles or class of articles
relatable to the scheduled industry, needed by the General public, that
Government may make an application to the High Court praying for permission to
appoint any person or body of persons to take over the management of the
industrial undertaking or to exercise in respect of the whole or any part of the
industrial undertaking such functions of control as may be specified in the
application.
(2) Where an application is made under sub-section (1), the High Court shall
made an order empowering the Central Government to authorise any person or
body of persons (hereinafter referred to as the A authorised person@) to take
over the management of the industrial undertaking or to exercise functions of
control in relation to the whole or any part of the industrial undertaking
(hereinafter referred to as the Aconcerned part@) for a period not exceeding five
years:
Provided that if the Central Government is of opinion that it is expedient in the
interests of the general public that the authorised person should continue to
manage the industrial undertaking, or continue to exercise functions of control in
relation to the concerned part, as the case may be, after the expiry of the period
of five years aforesaid, it may make an application to the High Court for the
continuance of such management or functions of control, for such period not
exceeding two years at a time, as may be specified in the application and
thereupon the High Court may make an order permitting the authorised person to
continue to manage the industrial undertaking or to exercise functions of control
in relation to the concerned part:
Provided further that the total period of such continuance (after the expiry of the
initial period of five years) shall not, in any case, be permitted to exceed twelve
years.
(3) Where an order has been made by the High Court under sub-section (2), the
High Court shall direct the Official Liquidator or any other person having, for the
time being, charge of the management or control of the industrial undertaking,
whether by or under the orders of any court, or any contract or instrument or
otherwise, to make over the management of such undertaking or the concerned
part, as the case may be, to the authorised person and thereupon the authorised
person shall be deemed to be the Official Liquidator in respect of the industrial
undertaking or the concerned part, as the case may be.
(4) Before making over the possession of the industrial undertaking or the
concerned part to the authorised person, the Official Liquidator shall make a
complete inventory of all the assets and liabilities of the industrial undertaking or
the concerned part, as the case may be, in the manner specified in section 18FG
and deliver a copy of such inventory to the authorised person, who shall, after
verifying the correctness thereof, sign on the duplicate copy thereof as evidence
of the receipt of the inventory by him.
(5) On taking over the management of the industrial undertaking, or on the
commencement of the exercise of functions of control in relation to the
concerned part, the authorised person shall take immediate steps to so run the
industrial undertaking or the concerned part as to ensure the maintenance of
production.
(6) The authorised person may, on such terms and conditions and subject to
such limitations or restrictions as may be prescribed, raise any loan for the
purpose of running the industrial undertaking or the concerned part, and may, for
that purpose, create a floating charge on the current assets of the industrial
undertaking or the concerned part, as the case may be.
(7) Where the authorised person is of opinion that the replacement or repair of
any machinery of the industrial undertaking or the concerned part is necessary
for the purpose of efficient running the industrial undertaking or such part, he
shall, on such terms and conditions and subject to such limitations or restrictions
as may be prescribed, make such replacement or repair, as the case may be.
(8) The loan obtained by the authorised person shall be recovered from the
assets of the industrial undertaking or the concerned part, in such manner and
subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.
(9) For the purpose of running the industrial undertaking, or exercising functions
of control in relation to the concerned part, the authorised person may employ
such of the former employees of the industrial undertaking whose services
became discharged by reason of the winding up of the company owning such
undertaking and every such person employed by the authorised person shall be
deemed to have entered into a fresh contract of service with the company.
(10) The proceedings in the winding up of the company in so far as they relate to
-
(a) the industrial undertaking, the management of which has been taken over by
the authorised person under this section, or
(b) the concerned part in relation to which any function of control is exercised by
the authorised person under this section,
shall, during the period of such management or control, remain stayed, and, in
computing the period of limitation for the enforcement of any right, privilege,
obligation or liability in relation to such undertaking or the concerned part, the
period during which such proceedings remained stayed shall be excluded.
CHAPTER IIIAB
POWER TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO CERTAIN INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS
18FB. Power of Central Government to make certain declarations in relation
to industrial undertakings, the management or control of which has been
taken over under section 18A, section 18AA. or section 18FA - (1) The
Central Government may, if it is satisfied, in relation to an industrial undertaking
or any part thereof, the management or control of which has been taken over
under section 18A, whether before or after the commencement of the Industries
(Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 1971 (72 of 1971) or under
section 18AA or section 18FA, that it is necessary so to do in the interests of the
general public with a view to preventing fall in the volume of production of any
scheduled industry, it may, be notified order, declare that -
(a) all or any of the enactments specified in the Third Schedule shall not apply or
shall apply with such adaptations whether by way of modification, addition or
omission (which does not, however, affect the policy of the said enactments) to
such industrial undertaking, as may be specified in such notified order, or
(b) the operation of all or nay, of the contracts, assurances of property,
agreements, settlements, awards, standing orders or other instruments in force
(to which such industrial undertaking or the company owning such undertaking is
a party or which may be applicable to such industrial undertaking or company)
immediately before the date of issue of such notified order shall remain
suspended or that all or any of the rights, privileges, obligations and liabilities
accruing or arising thereunder before the said date, shall remain suspended or
shall be enforceable with such adaptations and in such manner as may be
specified in the notified order.
(2) The notified order made under sub-section (1) shall remain in force, in the first
instance, for a period of one year, but the duration of such notified order may be
extended from time to time by a further notified order by a period not exceeding
one year at a time :
Provided that no such notified order shall, in any case, remain in force -
(a) after the expiry of the period for which the management of the industrial
undertaking was taken over under section 18A, section 18AA or section 18FA, or
(b) for more than eight years in the aggregate from the date of issue of the first
notified order,
whichever is earlier.
(3) Any notified order made under sub-section (1) shall have effect
notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other law, agreement
or instrument or any decree or order of a court, tribunal, officer or other authority
or of any submission, settlement or standing order.
(4) Any remedy for the enforcement of any right, privilege, obligation or liability
referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (1) and suspended or modified by a
notified order made under that sub-section shall, in accordance with the terms of
the notified order, remain suspended or modified, and all proceedings relating
thereto pending before any court, tribunal, officer or other authority shall
accordingly remain stayed or be continued subject to such adaptations, so,
however, that on the notified order ceasing to have effect -
(a) any right, privilege, obligation or liability so remaining suspended or modified
shall become revived and enforceable as if the notified order had never been
made;
(b) any proceeding so remaining stayed shall be proceeded with, subject to the
provisions of any law which may then be in force, from the stage which had been
reached when the proceedings became stayed.
(5) In computing the period of limitation for the enforcement of any right,
privilege, obligation or liability referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (1), the
period during which it or the remedy for the enforcement thereof remained
suspended shall be excluded.
CHAPTER IIIAC
LIQUIDATION OR RECONSTRUCTION OF COMPANIES
18FC. Power of Central Government to call for report on the affairs and
working of managed company - Where the management or control of an
industrial undertaking has been taken over under section 18A, whether before or
after the commencement of the Industries (Development and Regulation )
Amendment Act, 1971 (72 of 1971), or under section 18AA or section 18FA, the
Central Government may, at any time during the continuance of such
management or control, call for a report from the authorised person on the affairs
and working of the industrial undertaking an in submitting the report the
authorised person shall take into account the inventory and the lists of members
and creditors prepared under section 18FG.
18FD. Decision of Central Government in relation to managed company -
(1) If, on receipt of the report submitted by the authorised person, the Central
Government is satisfied, -
(a) in relation to the company owning the industrial undertaking, which is not
being wound up by the High Court, that the financial condition and other
circumstances of the company are such that it is not in a position to meet its
current liabilities out of its current assets, that Government may, if it considers
necessary or expedient in the interests of the general public so to do, by order,
decide that the industrial undertaking should be sold as a running concern as
provided in section 18FE and proceedings should simultaneously be started for
the winding up, by the High Court, of the company;
(b) in relation to the company, owning the industrial undertaking, which is being
wound up by the High Court, that its assets and liabilities are such that in the
interests of its creditors and contributories the industrial undertaking should be
sold as a running concern as provided in section 18FE, it may, by order, decide
accordingly.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), if, on receipt of the
report submitted by the authorised person, the Central Government is satisfied
that -
(a) in the interests of the general public, or
(b) in the interests of the shareholders, or
(c) to secure the proper management of the company owning the industrial
undertaking, it is necessary so to do, that Government may, by order, decide to
prepare a scheme for the reconstruction of the company owning the industrial
undertaking:
Provided that no such scheme shall be prepared in relation to a company which
is being wound up by or under the supervision of the High Court, except with the
previous permission of that Court.
(3) The powers exercisable by the Central Government under section 18F, in
relation to an undertaking taken over under section 18A, shall also be
exercisable in relation to an undertaking taken over under section 18AA or
section 18FA, but such powers shall not be exercised after the making of an
order under sub-section (1) or, as the case may be, under sub-section (2) of this
section.
18FE. Provisions where Government decides to follow the course of action
specified in section 18FD(1) - (1) The provisions hereinafter laid down shall
apply where the Central Government decides that the course of action specified
in sub-section (1) of section 18FD should be followed, namely :-
(a) the decision of the Central Government that the course of action specified in
clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 18FD should be followed in relation to a
company owning an industrial undertaking shall be deemed to be a ground
specified in section 433 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), on which the
company may be wound up by the High Court;
(b) the authorised person shall, as soon as may be, after the decision specified in
clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 18FD has been taken by the Central
Government, present an application to the High Court for the winding up of the
company owning the industrial undertaking;
(c) when an application is made by the authorised person, under clause (b), for
the winding up, by the High Court, of the company owning the industrial
undertaking, the High Court shall order the winding up of the company and shall,
notwithstanding anything contained in the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956),
appoint the authorised person as the Official Liquidator in relation to such
undertaking;
(d) whenever the Central Government decides under clause (b) of sub-section(1)
of section 18FD that the industrial undertaking should be sold as a running
concern, it shall cause a copy of its decision to be laid before the High Court;
(e) until the industrial undertaking referred to in clause (a) or clause (b) of sub-
section (1) of section 18FD is sold or purchased in pursuance of this section, the
authorised person shall continue to function as the Official Liquidator in relation
to the said undertaking in the winding up proceedings of the company, and,
thereafter the Official Liquidator appointed by the Central Government under
section 448 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956) shall take over and function
as the Official Liquidator in the said proceedings.
(2) The authorised person shall make a report to the Central Government as to
what should be the reserve price for the sale of the industrial undertaking as a
running concern.
(3) In making a report under sub-section (2), the authorised person shall have
regard to-
(a) the financial condition of the company owning the industrial undertaking on
the date on which the order under section 18FD is made-
(i) as disclosed in its books of account,
(ii) as disclosed in its balance-sheet and profit and loss account during a period
of five years immediately preceding the said date;
(b) the condition and nature of the plant, machinery, instruments and other
equipment from the point of view of their suitability for profitable use in the
running of the industrial undertaking;
(c) the total amount of liability on account of secured and unsecured debts
including overdrafts, if any, drawn on banks, liabilities on account of terminal
benefits to the employees and other borrowings and other liabilities of the
company; and
(d) other relevant factors including the factor that the industrial undertaking will
be sold free from all incumbrances.
(4) Notice of the reserve price determined by the authorised person shall be
given in such manner as may be prescribed to the members and creditors of the
company owning such industrial undertaking to make representations within a
specified time to the Central Government through the authorised person and the
Central Government shall, after considering the representations received and the
report of the authorised person, determine the reserve price.
(5) The authorised person shall thereafter, with the permission of the High Court,
invite tenders from the public in such manner as may be determined by the High
Court for the sale of the industrial undertaking as a running concern subject to
the condition that it will be sold to the person offering the highest price which
shall not be less than the reserve price determined under sub-section (4):
Provided that the High Court shall not refuse to grant such permission if it is
satisfied that the company is not in a position to meets its current liabilities out of
its current assets.
(6) The industrial undertaking shall be sold to the highest bidder, as a running
concern, only if the price offered by him therefor is not less than the reserve
price.
(7) Where no offer of price is equal to, or moe than, the reserve price, the
industrial undertaking shall be purchased by the Central Government at the
reserve price.
(8) (a) The amount realised from the sale of the industrial undertaking as a
running concern together with any other sum which may be realised from any
contributory, purchaser or any other person from whom any money is due to the
company shall be utilised in accordance with the provisions of the Companies
Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), in discharging the liabilities of the company and distributing
the balance, if any, amongst the members of the company.
(b) In other respects, the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956),
relating to the winding up of a company by High Court shall, as far as may be,
apply.
(9) When an industrial undertaking is sold to any person under sub-section (6), or
purchased by the Central Government under sub-section (7), there shall be
transferred to and vested in the purchaser, free from all incumbrances, all such
assets relating to the industrial undertaking as are referred to in sub-clause (i) of
clause (a) of section 18FG and existing at the time of the sale or purchase.
18FE. Provisions where Government decides to follow the course of action
specified in section 18FD(2) - (1) Where in any case the Central Government
decides that the course of action specified in sub-section (2) of section 18FD
should be followed, it shall, subject to the provisions of that sub-section, cause to
be prepared, by the authorised person, a scheme for the reconstruction of the
company, owning the industrial undertaking, in accordance with the provisions
hereinafter contained and the authorised person shall submit the same for the
approval of that Government.
(2) The scheme for the reconstruction of the company owning the industrial
undertaking may contain provisions for all or any of the following matters, namely
:-
(a) the constitution, name and registered office, the capital, assets, powers,
rights, interests, authorities and privileges, the liabilities, duties and obligations of
the company on its reconstruction;
(b) any change in the Board of directors, or the appointment of a new Board of
directors of the company on its reconstruction and the authority by whom, the
manner in which and the other terms, and conditions on which, such change or
appointment shall be made and in the case of appointment of a new Board of
directors or of any director, the period for which such appointment shall be made;
(c) the vesting of controlling interest, in the reconstructed company, in the Central
Government either by the appointment of additional directors or by the allotment
of additional shares;
(d) the alteration of the memorandum and articles of association of the company,
on its reconstruction, to give effect to such reconstruction;
(e) subject to the provisions of the scheme, the continuation by or against the
company, on its reconstruction, of any action or proceedings pending against the
company immediately before the date of its reconstruction;
(f) the reduction of the interest or rights which the members and creditors have in
or against the company before its reconstruction to such extent as the Central
Government may consider necessary in the interests of the general public or in
the interests of the members and creditors or for the maintenance of the
business of the company:
Provided that nothing contained in this clause shall be deemed to authorise the
reduction of the interest or rights of any creditor (including Government) in
respect of any loan or advance made by that creditor to the company after the
date on which the management of the industrial undertaking of the company has
been taken over under section 18A, section 18AA, or section 18FA;
(g) the payment in cash or otherwise to the creditors in full satisfaction of their
claim-
(i) in respect of their interest or rights in or against the company before its
reconstruction; or
(ii) where their interest or rights in or against the company has or have been
reduced under clause (f), in respect of such interest, or rights as so reduced;
(h) the allotment to the members of the company for shares held by them therein
before its reconstruction [whether their interest in such shares has been reduced
under clause (f) or not], of shares in the company on its reconstruction and where
it is not possible to allot shares to any members, the payment in case to those
members in full satisfaction of their claim-
(1) in respect of their interest in shares in the company before its reconstruction;
or
(2) where such interest has been reduced under clause (f), in respect of their
interest in shares as so reduced;
(i) the offer by the Central Government to acquire by negotiations with the
members of the company their respective shares on payment in case to those
members who may volunteer to sell their shares to the Central Government in full
satisfaction of their claim-
(1) in respect of their interest in shares in the company before its reconstruction;
or
(2) where such interest has been reduced under clause (f), in respect of their
interest in shares as so reduced;
(j) the conversion of any debentures issued by the company after the taking over
of the management of the company under section 18A or section 18AA or
section 18FA or of any loans obtained by the company after that date or of any
part of such debentures or loans, into shares in the company and the allotment of
those shares to such debenture-holders or creditors, as the case may be;
(k) the increase of the capital of the company by the issue of new shares and the
allotment of such new shares to the Central Government;
(l) the continuance of the services of such of the employees of the company as
the Central Government may specify in the scheme in the company itself, on its
reconstruction, on such terms and conditions as the Central Government thinks
fit;
(m) notwithstanding anything contained in clause (l), where any employees of the
company whose services have been continued under clause (l), have, by notice
in writing given to the company at any time before the expiry of one month next
following the date on which the scheme is sanctioned by the High Court,
intimated their intention of not becoming employees of the company, on its
reconstruction, the payment to such employees and to other employees whose
services have not been continued on the reconstruction of the company, of
compensation, if any, to which they are entitled under the Industrial Disputes Act,
1947 (14 of 1947), and such pension, gratuity, provident fund and other
retirement benefits ordinarily admissible to them under the rules or authorisations
of the company immediately before the date of its reconstruction;
(n) any other terms and conditions for the reconstruction of the company;
(o) such incidental, consequential and supplemental matters as are necessary to
secure that the reconstruction of the company shall be fully and effectively
carried out.
(3) (a) A copy of the scheme, as approved by the Central Government, shall be
sent in draft to the company, to the registered trade unions, if any, of which the
employees of the company are members and to the creditors thereof for
suggestions and objections, if any, whthin such period as the Central
Government may specify for this purpose.
(b) The Central Government may make such modifications, if any, in the draft
scheme as it may consider necessary in the light of the suggestions and
objections received from the company, from the registered trade unions of which
the employees of the company are members and from any members or creditors
of the company.
(4) The scheme shall thereafter be placed before the High Court for its sanction
and the High Court, if satisfied that the scheme is in the interests of the general
public or in the interests of the shareholders or for securing the proper
management of the company and that the scheme is designed to be fair and
reasonable to the members and creditors of the company, may, after giving a
reasonable opportunity to the company and to its members and creditors of
showing cause, sanction the scheme without any modification or with such
modifications as it may consider necessary.
(5) The scheme, as so sanctioned by the High Court, shall come into force on
such date as that Court may specify in this behalf:
Provided that different dates may be specified for different provisions of the
scheme.
(6) The sanction accorded by the High Court under sub-section (4) shall be
conclusive evidence that all the requirements of this section relating to the
reconstruction of the company have been complied with, and a copy of the
sanctioned scheme certified by the High Court to be a true copy thereof, shall, in
all legal proceedings (whether original or in appeal or otherwise), be admitted as
evidence to the same extent as the original scheme.
(7) On and from the date of the coming into operation of the scheme or any
provision thereof, the scheme or such provision shall be binding on the company
and also on all the members and other creditors and employees of the company
and on any other person having any right or liability in relation to the company.
(8) On the coming into operation of the scheme or any provision thereof, the
authorised person shall cease to function, and the management of the
reconstructed company shall be assumed by the Board of directors as provided
in the scheme.
(9) Copies of the scheme shall be laid before each House of Parliament, as soon
as may be, after the scheme has been sanctioned by the Court.
(10) The provisions of this section and of any scheme made thereunder shall
have effect notwithstanding anything contained in section 391 to 394A (both
inclusive) of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956).
18FG. Preparation of inventory of assets and liabilities and list of members
and creditors of managed company - For the purposes of this Act, the
authorised person shall, as soon as may be, after taking over the management of
the industrial undertaking of a company under section 18A or section 18AA or
section 18FA,-
(a) prepare a complete inventory of -
(i) all properties, movable and immovable, including lands, buildings, works,
workshops, stores, instruments, plant, machinery, automobiles and other
vehicles, stocks of materials in the course of production, storage or transit, raw
materials, cash balances, cash in hand, deposits in bank or with any other
person or body or on loan, reserve funds, investments and book debts and all
other rights and interests arising out of such property as were immediately before
the date of taking over of the industrial undertaking, in the ownership,
possession, power or control of the company, whether within or without India;
and all books of account, registers, maps, plans, sections, drawings, records,
documents or titles of ownership of property and all other documents of whatever
nature relating thereto; and
(ii) all borrowings, liabilities and obligations of whatever kind of the company
including liability on account of terminal benefits to its employees subsisting
immediately before the said date;
(b) prepare separately a list of members, and a list of creditors, of such company
as on the date of taking over of the management of the industrial undertaking
showing separately in the list of creditors, the secured creditors and the
unsecured creditors:
Provided that where the management of the industrial undertaking of a company
has been taken over under the said section 18A before the commencement of
the Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 1971 (72 of 1971),
the aforesaid functions shall be performed by the authorised person within six
months from such commencement.
18FH. Stay of suits and other proceedings - In the case of a company in
respect of which an order under section 18FD has been made, no suit or other
legal proceeding shall be instituted or continued against the company except with
the previous permission of the Central Government or any officer or authority
authorised by that Government in this behalf.
CHAPTER IIIB.
CONTROL OF SUPPLY, DISTRIBUTION, PRICE ETC., OF CERTAIN
ARTICLES
18G. Power to control supply, distribution, price, etc., of certain articles -
(1) The Central Government, so far as it appears to it to be necessary or
expedient for securing the equitable distribution and availability at fair prices of
any article or class of articles relatable to any scheduled industry, may,
notwithstanding anything contained in any other provisions of this Act, by notified
order, provide for regulating the supply and distribution thereof and trade and
commerce therein.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by sub-section (1),
a notified order made thereunder may provide -
(a) for controlling the prices at which any such article or class thereof may be
bought or sold;
(b) for regulating by licences, permits or otherwise the distribution, transport,
disposal, acquisition, possession, use or consumption of any such article or class
thereof;
(c) for prohibiting the withholding from sale of any such article or class thereof
ordinarily kept for sale;
(d) for requiring any person manufacturing, producing or holding in stock any
such article or class thereof to sell the whole or part of the articles so
manufactured or produced during a specified period or to sell the whole or a part
of the articles so held in stock to such person or class of persons and in such
circumstances as may be specified in the order;
(e) for regulating or prohibiting any class of commercial or financial transactions
relating to such article or class thereof which in the opinion of the authority
making the order are, or if unregulated are likely to be, detrimental to public
interest;
(f) for requiring persons engaged in the distribution and trade and commerce in
any such article or class thereof to mark the articles exposed or intended for sale
with the sale price or to exhibit at some easily accessible place on the premises
the price-lists of articles held for sale and also to similarly exhibit on the first day
of every month, or at such other time as may be prescribed, a statement of the
total quantities of any such articles in stock;
(g) for collecting any information or statistics with a view to regulating or
prohibiting any of the aforesaid matters; and
(h) for any incidental or supplementary matters, including, in particular, the grant
of issue of licences, permits or other documents and the charging of fees
therefor.
(3) Where, in pursuance of any order made with reference to clause (d) of sub-
section (2), any person sells any article, there shall be paid to him the price
therefor-
(a) where the price can consistently with the controlled price, if any, be fixed by
agreement, the price so agreed upon;
(b) where no such agreement can be reached, the price calculated with reference
to the controlled price, if any, fixed under this section;
(c) where neither clause (a) nor clause (b) applies, the price calculated at the
market rate prevailing in the locality at the date of sale.
(4) No order made in exercise of any power conferred by this section shall be
called in question in any court.
(5) Where an order purports to have been made and signed by an authority in
exercise of any power conferred by this section, a court shall, within the meaning
of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 or 1872), presume that such order was so
made by that authority.
Explanation.- In this section, the expression Aarticle or class of articles@
relatable to any scheduled industry includes any article or class of articles
imported into India which is of the same nature or description as the article or
class of articles manufactured or produced in the scheduled industry.
CHAPTER IV
MISCELLANEOUS
19. Powers of inspection - (1) For the purpose of ascertaining the position or
working of any industrial undertaking or for any other purpose mentioned in this
Act or the rules made thereunder, any person authorised by the Central
Government in this behalf shall have the right-
(a) to enter and inspect any premises;
(b) to order the production of any document, book, register or record in the
possession or power of any person having the control of, or employed in
connection with, any industrial undertaking; and
(c) to examine any person having the control of, or employed in connection with,
any industrial undertaking.
(2) Any person authorized by the Central Government under sub-section (1) shall
be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian
Penal Code (45 of 1860).
20. General prohibition of taking over management or control of industrial
undertakings- After the commencement of this Act, if shall not be competent for
any State Government or a local authority to take over the management or
control of any industrial undertaking under any law for the time being in force
which authorizes any such Government or local authority so to do.
21. Certain administrative expenses of Development Councils to be paid
from moneys provided by Parliament - Such administrative expenses as relate
to the emoluments of officers of a Development Council who are appointed by or
with the approval of the Central Government, shall be defrayed out of moneys
provided by Parliament.
22. Power of the Central Government to issue directions to Development
Councils - In the exercise of its functions under this Act, every Development
Council shall be guided by such instructions as may be given to it by the Central
Government and such instructions may include directions relating to the manner
in which, and the purpose for which, any proceeds of the cess levied under
section 9 which may have been handed over to it, shall be expanded.
23. Decision of Central Government final respecting certain matter - If, for
the purposes of this Act, any question arises as to whether-
(a) there has been a substantial expansion of an industrial undertaking, or
(b) an industrial undertaking is producing or manufacturing any new article,
the decision of the Central Government thereon shall be final.
24. Penalties - (1) if any person contravenes or attempts to contravene or abets
the contravention of-
(i) the provisions of sub-section (1), or sub-section (4) of section 10 or of sub-
section (1) of section 11 or of section 11A or of sub-section (1) of section 13 or of
sub-section (2), (2A), (2D), (2F) and (2G) of section 29B, or
(ii) any direction issued under section 17 or sub-section (3) of section 18B, or
(iii) any order made under section 18G, or
(iv) any rule the contravention of which is made punishable under this
section,
he shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to six months, or
with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees, or with both, and, in the case
of continuing contravention, with an additional fine which may extend to five
hundred rupees for every day during which such contravention continues after
conviction for the first such contravention.
(2) If the person contravening any of the said provisions is a company every
person who at the time the offence was committed was in charge of, and was
responsible to the company for the conduct of the business of the company, as
well as the company, shall be deemed to be guilty of the contravention and shall
be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly:
Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall render any such person
liable to any punishment provided in this Act, if he proves that the offence was
committed without his knowledge or that he exercised all due diligence to prevent
the commission of such offence.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2), where an offence
under this Act has been committed by a company and it is proved that the
offence has been committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable
to any neglect on the part of, any director or manager, secretary, or other officer
of the company, such director, manager, secretary or other officer shall also be
deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against
and punished accordingly.
Explanation.- For the purposes of this section,-
(a) Acompany@ means any body corporate and includes a firm or other
association of individuals; and
(b) Adirector@ in relation to a firm means a partner in the firm.
24A. Penalty for false statements - If any person,-
(a) when required by this Act or by any order under this Act to make any
statement or furnish any information, makes any statement or furnishes any
information which is false in any material particular and which he knows or has
reasonable cause to believe to be false or does not believe to be true; or
(b) makes any such statement as aforesaid in any book, account, record,
declaration return or other document which he is required by any order made
under this Act to maintain or furnish;
he shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to three months or
with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, or with both.
25. Delegation of powers - (1) The Central Government may, by notified order,
direct that any power exercisable by it under this Act (other than the power given
to it by sections 16, 18A, 18AA and 18FA shall, in relation to such matters and
subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified in the direction, be
exercisable also by such officer or authority (including in the said expressions
any Development Council, State Government or officer or authority subordinate
to the Central Government) as may be specified in the direction.
(2) Any power exercisable by a State Government by virtue of a direction under
sub-section (1) may, unless otherwise provided in such direction, be exercised
also by such officer or authority subordinate to that State Government as it may,
by notified order, specify in this behalf.
26. Power to issue directions - The Central Government may give directions to
any State Government as to the carrying into execution in the State of any of the
provisions of this Act or of any order or direction made thereunder.
27. Cognizance of offences - No court shall take cognizance of any offence
punishable under this Act except on a report in writing of the facts constituting
such offence made by a person who is a public servant as defined in section 21
of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).
28. Burden of proof in certain cases - Where any person is prosecuted for
contravening any order made under section 18G which prohibits him from doing
an act or being in possession of a thing without lawful authority or without a
permit, licence or other document, the burden of proving that he has such
authority, permit, licence or other document shall be on him.
29. Jurisdiction of courts - (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), no
court inferior to that of a presidency magistrate or a magistrate of the first clasds
shall try any offence punishable under this Act.
(2) Any magistrate or bench of magistrates empowered, for the time being, to try
in a summary way the offence specified in sub-section 91) of section 260 of the
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 ( 5 of 1898), may, on application in this behalf
being made by the prosecution, try in accordance with the provisions contained
in sections 262 to 265 of the said Code any offence which consists of a
contravention of an order made under section 18G.
29A. Special provision regarding fines - Notwithstanding anything contained in
section 32 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898), it shall be lawful
for any magistrate of the first class and for any presidency magistrate to pass a
sentence of fine exceeding one thousand rupees on any person convicted of any
offence under this Act.
29B. Power to exempt in special cases - (1) If the Central Government is of
opinion, having regard to the smallness of the number of workers employed or to
the amount invested in any industrial undertaking or to the desiarbility of
encouraging small undertakings generally or to the stage of development of any
scheduled industry, that it would not be in public interest to apply all or any of the
provisions of this Act thereto, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
exempt, subject to such conditions as it may think fit to impose, any industrial
undertaking or class of industrial undertakings or any schedule industry or class
of scheduled industries as it may specify in the notification from the operation of
all or any of the provisions of this Act or of any rule or order made thereunder.
(2) Where any notification under sub-section (1) granting any exemption is
cancelled, no owner of any industrial undertaking to which the provisions of
section 10, section 11, section 11A or clause (d) of sub-section (1) of section 13
would have applied, if the notification nunder sub-section (1) had not been
issued, shall carry on the business of the undertaking after the expiry of such
period as may be specified in the notification cancelling the exemption except
under and in accordance with a licence issued in this behalf by the Central
Government and, in the case of a State Government, except under an in
accordance with the previous permission of the Central Government.
(2A) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-
section (1), the Central Government may, if it is satisfied, after considering the
recommendations made to it by the Advisory Committee constituted under sub-
section (2B), that it is necessary so to do for the development and expansion of
ancillary, or small scale, industrial undertakings, by notified order, direct that any
article or class of articles specified in the First Schedule shall, on and from such
date as may be specified in the notified order (hereafter in this section referred to
as the Adate of reservation@), be reserved for exclusive production by the
ancillary, or small scale, industrial undertakings (hereafter in this section referred
to as Areserved article@).
(2B) The Central Government shall, with a view to determining the nature of any
article or class of articles that may be reserved for production by the ancillary or
small scale, industrial undertakings, constitute an Advisory Committee consisting
of such persons as have in the opinion of that Government, the necessary
expertise to give advice on the matter.
(2C) The Advisory Committee shall, after considering the following matters
communicate its recommendations to the Central Government, namely:-
(a) the nature of any article or class of articles which may be produced
economically by the ancillary, or small scale, industrial undertakings;
(b) the level of employment likely to be generated by the production of such
article or class of articles by the ancillary, or small scale, industrial undertakings;
(c) the possibility of encouraging and diffusing entrepreneurship in industry;
(d) the prevention of concentration of economic power to the common detriment;
and
(e) such other matters as the Advisory Committee may think fit.
(2D) The production of any reserved article or class of reserved articles by any
industrial undertaking (not being an ancillary, or small scale, industrial
undertaking) which, on the date of reservation, is engaged in, or has taken
effective steps for, the production of any reserved article or class of reserved
articles, shall, after the commencement of the Industries (Development and
Regulation) Amendment Act, 1984, or, as the case may be, the date of
reservation, whichever is later, be subject to such conditions as the Central
Government may, by notified order, specify.
(2E) While specifying any condition under sub-section (2D), the Central
Government may take into consideration the level of production of any reserved
article or class of reserved articles achieved, immediately before the date of
reservation, by the industrial undertaking referred to in sub-section (2D), and
such other factors as may be relevant.
(2F) Every person or authority, not being the Central Government, who, or which,
is registered under section 10 or to whom, or to which, a licence has been issued
or permission has been granted under section 11 for the production of any article
or class of articles which has, or have, been subsequently reserved for the
ancillary, or small scale, industrial undertakings, shall produce, such registration
certificate, licence or permission, as the case may be, within such period as the
Central Government may, by notified order, specify in this behalf, and the Central
Government may enter therein all or any of the conditions specified by it under
sub-section (2D), including the productive capacity of the industrial undertakings
and other prescribed particulars.
(2G) The owner of every industrial undertaking (not being an ancillary, or small
scale, industrial undertaking) which, immediately before the commencement of
the Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 1984, or the date
of reservation, whichever is later, -
(a) was engaged in the production of any article or class of articles, which has, or
have, been reserved for the ancillary, or small scale, industrial undertakings, or
(b) had before such commencement or before the date of such reservation, as
the case may be, taken effective steps for commencing the production of such
reserved article or class of reserved articles,
without being registered under section 10 or in respect of which a licence or
permission has not been issued under section 11, shall refrain from the
production of such reserved article or class or reserved articles, on and from the
date of expiry of three months from such commencement or from the date of
such reservation, whichever is later.
(2H) Every notified order made under sub-section (2A) 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 notified order or both Houses agree that the
notified order should not be made, the notified order 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 the notified order.
(3) The provisions of this Act shall apply, so far as may be, in relation to the issue
of a licence or permission to any industrial undertaking referred to in sub-section
(2) as they apply in relation to the issue of a licence or permission to any
industrial undertaking referred to in sub-section (2) as they apply in relation to the
issue of a licence or permission to a new industrial undertaking.
29C. Protection of action taken under the Act - (1) No suit, prosecution or
other legal proceeding shall lie against any person for anything which is in good
faith done or intended to be done under this Act or any rule or order made
thereunder.
(2) No suit or other legal proceeding shall lie against the Government for any
damage caused or likely to be caused by anything which is in good faith done or
intended to be done in pursuance of this Act or any rule or order made
thereunder.
29D. Debts incurred by the authorised person to have priority - Every debt
arising out of any loan obtained by the authorised person for carrying on the
management of, or exercising functions of control in relation to, an industrial
undertaking or part thereof, the management of which has been taken over under
section 18A or section 18AA or section 18FA,-
(a) shall have priority over all other debts, whether secured or unsecured,
incurred before the management of such industrial undertaking was taken over,
(b) shall be preferential debt within the meaning of section 530 of the Companies
Act, 1956 (1 of 1956),
and such debts shall rank equally among themselves and be paid in full out of
the assets of the industrial undertakings unless such assets are insufficient to
meet them, in which case they shall abate in equal proportions.
30. Power to make rules - (1) The Central Government may, subject to the
condition of previous publication, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this
Act.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power,
such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely :-
(a) the constitution of the Advisory Council and Development Councils, the term
of office and other conditions of service of, the procedure to be followed by, and
the manner of filling casual vacancies among members of the Advisory Council
or a Development Council;
(b) the form of the statement of account to be furnished by a Development
Council;
(c) the intervals at which, the time within which, and the manner in which the
cess leviable under section 9 shall be payable and the rebate for the prompt
payment of such cess;
(d) the expenses which a Development Council may meet from the proceeds of
the cess levied under section 9 which may have been handed over to it;
(e) the appointment by or with the approval of the Central Government of any
officers of a Development Council;
(f) the facilities to be provided by any industrial undertaking for the training of
technicians and labour;
(g) the collection of any information or statistics in respect of any scheduled
industry;
(h) the manner in which industrial undertakings may be registered under section
10 and the levy of a fee therefor;
(i) the procedure for the grant or issue of licences and permissions under section
11, section 11A, section 13 or section 29B, the time within which such licences or
permissions shall be granted or issued including, in particular, the publication of
notices calling for applications and the holding of such public inquiry in relation
thereto as may be necessary in the circumstances;
(j) the fees to be levied in respect of licences and permissions issued under this
Act;
(k) the matters which may be taken into account in the granting or issuing of
licences and permissions, including in particular, the previous consultation by the
Central Government with the Advisory Council or any Development Council or
both in regard to the grant or issue of any such licences or permission;
(l) the procedure to be followed in making any investigation under this Act;
(m) the conditions which may be included in any licences and permissions;
(n) the conditions on which licences and permissions may be varied or amended
under section 12;
(o) the maintenance of books, accounts and records relating to an industrial
undertaking;
(p) the submission of special or periodical returns relating to an industrial
undertaking by persons having the control of, or employed in connection with,
such undertaking, and the forms in which, and the authorities to which, such
returns and reports shall be submitted;
(pp) any matter which is to be or may be prescribed for giving effect to the
provisions of Chapter IIIAA or Chapter IIIAC;
(q) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed under this Act.
(3) Any rule made under this section may provide that a contravention thereof
shall be punishable under section 24.
(4) Every rule made under this section 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 rule or
both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the 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 rule.
31. Application of other laws not barred--The provisions of this Act shall be
in addition to and not, save as otherwise, expressly provided in this Act, in
derogation of any other Central Act for the time being in force, relating to any of
the scheduled industries.
32. Amendment of section 2, Act 14 of 1947.-- Rep. By Repealing and Amending
Act, 1957 (36 of 1957), s.2 and Sch.I.
THE FIRST SCHEDULE
[See sections 2 and 3(i)]
Any industry engaged in the manufacture or production of any of the articles
mentioned under each of the following heading or sub-headings, namely :-
1. METALLURGICAL INDUSTRIES:
A. Ferrous :
(1) Iron and steel (metal).
(2) Ferro- alloys.
(3) Iron and steel castings and forgings.
(4) Iron and steel structurals.
(5) Iron and steel pipes.
(6) Special steels.
(7) Other products of iron and steel.
B. Non-ferrous :
[(1) Precious metals, including gold and silver, and their alloys.
(1A) Other non-ferrous metals and their alloys.]
(2) Semi-manufactures and manufactures.
2. FUELS :
(1) Coal, lignite, coke and their derivatives.
(2) Mineral oil (crude oil), motor and aviation spirit, diesel oil, kerosene oil, fuel
oil, diverse hydrocarbon oils and their blends including synthetic fuels, lubricating
oils and the like.
(3) Fuel gases-(coal gas, natural gas and the like).
3. BOILERS AND STEAM GENERATING PLANTS:
(1)Boilers and steam generating plants.
4. PRIME MOVERS (OTHER THAN ELECTRICAL GENERATORS) :
(1) Steam engines and turbines.
(2) Internal combustion engines.
5. ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT :
(1) Equipment for generation, transmission and distribution of electricity including
transformers.
(2) Electrical motors.
(3) Electrical fans.
(4) Electrical lamps.
(5) Electrical furnaces.
(6) Electrical cables and wires.
(7) X-ray equipment.
(8) Electronic equipment
(9) Household appliances such as electric irons, heaters and the like.
(10) Storage batteries.
(11) Dry cells.
6. TELECOMMUNICATIONS :
(1) Telephones.
(2) Telegraph equipment.
(3) Wireless communication apparatus.
(4) Radio receivers, including amplifying and public address equipment.
(5) Television sets.
(7) Teleprinters.
7. TRANSPORTATION :
(1) Aircraft.
(2) Ships and other vessels drawn by power.
(3) Railway locomotives.
(4) Railway rolling stock.
(5) Automobiles (motor cars, buses, trucks, motor cycles, scooters and the like).
(6) Bicycles.
(7) Others such as fork lift trucks and the like.
8. INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY :
A. Major items of specialised equipment used in specific industries:
(1) Textile machinery (such as spinning frames, carding machines powerlooms
and the like) including textile accessories.
(2) Jute machinery.
(3) Rayon machinery.
(4) Sugar machinery.
(5) Tea machinery.
(6) Mining machinery.
(7) Metallurgical machinery.
(8) Cement machinery.
(9) Chemical machinery.
(10) Pharmaceuticals machinery.
(11) Paper machinery.
B. General items of machinery used in several industries, such as the equipment
required for various Aunit processes@ :
(1) Size reduction equipment - crushers, ball mills and the like.
(2) Conveying equipment- bucket elevators, skip hoist, cranes, derrick and the
like.
(3) Size separation units-screens, classifiers and the like.
(4) Mixers and reactors-kneading mills, turbo mixers and the like.
(5) Filtration equipment-filter presses, rotary filters and the like.
(6) Centrifugal machines.
(7) Evaporators.
(8) Distillation equipment.
(9) Crystallisers.
(10) Driers.
(11) Power driven pumps-reciprocating, centrifugal and the like.
(12) Air and gas compressors and vacuum pipes (excluding electrical furnaces).
(13) Refrigeration plants for industrial use.
(14) Fire fighting equipment and appliances including fire engines.
C. Other items of Industrial Machinery :
(1) Ball, roller and tapered bearings.
(2) Speed reduction units.
(3) Grinding wheels and abrasives.
9. MACHINE TOOLS:
(1) Machine Tools.
10. AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY:
(1) Tractors, harvestors and the like.
(2) Agricultural implements.
11. EARTH-MOVING MACHINERY:
Bulldozers, dumpers, scrapers, loaders, shovels, drag lines, bucket wheel
excavators, road rollers and the like.
12. MISCELLANEOUS MECHANICAL AND ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES:
(1) Plastic moulded goods.
(2) Hand tools, small tools and the like.
(3) Razor blades.
(4) Pressure Cookers.
(5) Cutlery.
(6) Steel furniture.
13. COMMERCIAL, OFFICE AND HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT:
(1) Typewriters.
(2) Calculating machines.
(3) Air conditioners and refrigerators.
(4) Vacuum cleaners.
(5) Sewing and knitting machines.
(6) Hurricane lanterns.
14. MEDICAL AND SURGICAL APPLIANCES:
(1)Surgical instruments- sterilisers, incubators and the like.
15. INDUSTRIAL INSTRUMENTS.
(1) Water metres, steam metres, electricity metres and the like.
(2) Indicating, recording and regulating devices for pressure, temperature, rate of
flow, weights, levels and the like.
(3) Weighing machines.
16. SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS:
(1)Scientific instruments.
17. MATHEMATICAL, SURVEYING AND DRAWING INSTRUMENTS:
(1)Mathematical, surveying and drawing instruments.
18. FERTILISERS:
(1) Inorganic fertilizers.
(2) Organic fertilisers.
(3) Mixed fertilisers.
19. CHEMICAL (OTHER THAN FERTILISERS):
(1) Inorganic heavy chemicals.
(2) Organic heavy chemicals.
(3) Fine chemicals including photographic chemicals.
(4) Synthetic resins and plastics.
(5) Paints, varnishes and enamels.
(6) Synthetic rubbers.
(7) Man-made fibres including regenerated cellulose rayon, nylon and the like.
(8) Coke oven by-products.
(9) Coal tar distillation products like naphthalene, anthracene and the like.
(10) Explosives including gun powder and safety fuses.
(11) Insecticides, fungicides, weedicides and the like.
(12) Textile auxiliaries.
(13) Sizing materials including starch.
(14) Miscellaneous chemicals.
20. PHOTOGRAPHIC RAW FILM AND PAPER :
(1) Cinema film.
(2) Photographic amateur film.
(3) Photographic printing paper.
21. DYE-STUFFS : Dye-stuffs.
22. DRUGS AND PHARMACEUTICALS : Drugs and Pharmaceuticals.
23. TEXTILES (INCLUDING THOSE DYED, PRINTED OR OTHERWISE
PROCESSED):
(1) Made wholly or in part of cotton, including cotton yarn, hosiery and rope.
(2) Made wholly or in part of jute, including jute twine and rope.
(3) Made wholly or in part of wool, including wool tops, woolen yarn, hosiery,
carpets and druggets;
(4) Made wholly or in part of silk, including silk yarn and hosiery;
(5) Made wholly or in part of synthetic, artificial (man-made) fibres, including yarn
and hosiery of such fibres.
24. PAPER AND PULP INCLUDING PAPER PRODUCTS :
(1) Paper - writing, printing and wrapping.
(2) Newsprint.
(3) Paper board and straw board.
(4) Paper for packaging (corrugated paper, kraft paper, bags, paper containers
and the like).
(5) Pulp - wood pulp, mechanical, chemical, including dissolving pulp.
25. SUGAR :
(1) Sugar.
26. FERMENTATION INDUSTRIES :
(1) Alcohol.
(2) Other products of fermentation industries.
27. FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES :
(1) Canned fruits and fruit products.
(2) Milk foods.
(3) Malted Foods.
(4) Flour.
(5) Other processed foods.
28. VEGETABLE OILS AND VANASPATHI:
(1) Vegetable oils, including solvent extracted oils.
(2) Vanaspathi.
29. SOAPS, COSMETICS AND TOILET PREPARATIONS :
(1) Soaps.
(2) Glycerine.
(3) Cosmetics.
(4) Perfumery.
(5) Toilet preparations.
30. RUBBER GOODS :
(1) Tyres and tubes.
(2) Surgical and medical products including prophylactics.
(3) Footwear.
(4) Other rubber goods.
31. LEATHER, LEATHER GOODS AND PICKERS :
(1)Leather, leather goods and pickers.
32. GLUE AND GELATIN
(1)Glue and gelatin.
33. GLASS :
(1) Hollow ware.
(2) Sheet and plate glass.
(3) Optical glass.
(4) Glass wool.
(5) Laboratory ware.
(6) Miscellaneous ware.
34. CERAMICS :
(1) Fire bricks.
(2) Refractories.
(3) Furnace lining bricks - acidic, basic and neutral.
(4) China ware and pottery.
(5) Sanitary ware.
(6) Insulators.
(7) Tiles.
(8) Graphite Crucibles.
35. CEMENT AND GYPSUM PRODUCTS :
(1) Portland cement.
(2) Asbestos cement.
(3) Insulating boards.
(4) Gypsum boards, wall boards and the like.
36. TIMBER PRODUCTS:
(1) Plywood.
(2) Hardboard, including fibre-board, chip-board and the like.
(3) Matches.
(4) Miscellaneous (furniture components, bobbins, shutters and the like)
37. DEFENCE INDUSTRIES :
(1)Arms and ammunition.
38. MISCELLANEOUS INDUSTRIES :
(1) Cigarettes.
(2) Linoleums, whether felt based or jute based.
(3) Zip fasteners (metallic and non-metallic).
(4) Oil Stoves.
(5) Printing, including litho printing industry.
Explanation 1.-- The articles specified under each of the headings Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 10, 11 and 13 shall include their component parts and accessories.
Explanation 2.-- The articles specified under each of the headings Nos. 18, 19,
21 and 22 shall include the intermediates required for their manufacture.
THE SECOND SCHEDULE
[See section 6(4)]
Functions which may be assigned to Development Councils :-
(1) Recommending targets for production, co-ordinating production programmes
and reviewing progress from time to time.
(2) Suggesting norms of efficiency with a view to eliminating waste, obtaining
maximum production, improving quality and reducing costs.
(3) Recommending measures for securing the fuller utilisation of the installed
capacity and for improving the working of the industry, particularly of the less
efficient units.
(4) Promoting arrangements for better marketing and helping in the devising of a
system of distribution and sale of the produce of the industry which would be
satisfactory to the consumer.
(5) Promoting standardisation of products.
(6) Assisting in the distribution of controlled materials and promoting
arrangements for obtaining materials for the industry.
(7) Promoting or undertaking inquiry as to materials and equipment and as to
methods of production, management and labour utilisation, including the
discovery and development of new materials, equipment and methods and of
improvements in those already in use, the assessment of the advantages of
different alternatives and the conduct of experimental establishments and of tests
on a commercial scale.
(8) Promoting the training of persons engaged or proposing engagement in the
industry and their education in technical or artistic subjects relevant thereto.
(9) Promoting the retaining in alternative occupations of personnel engaged in or
retrenched from the industry.
(10) Promoting or undertaking scientific and industrial research, research into
matters affecting industrial psychology and research into matters relating to
production and to the consumption or use of goods and services supplied by the
industry.
(11) Promoting, improvements and standardisation of accounting and costing
methods and practice.
(12) Promoting or undertaking the collection and formation of statistics.
(13) Investigating possibilities of decentralising stages and processes of
production with a view to encouraging the growth of allied small scale and
cottage industries.
(14) Promoting the adoption of measures for increasing the productivity of labour,
including measures for securing safer and better working conditions and the
provision and improvement of amenities and incentives for workers.
(15) Advising on any matters relating to the industry (other than remuneration
and conditions of employment) as to which the Central Government may request
the Development Council to advice and undertaking inquiries for the purpose of
enabling the Development Council so to advise, and
(16) Undertaking arrangements for making available to the industry information
obtained and for advising on matters with which the Development Councils are
concerned in the exercise of any of their functions.
THE THIRD SCHEDULE
(See Section 18FB)
The Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 (20 of 1946).
The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947).
The Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948).
LIST OF AMENDING ACTS
The Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 1953 (26 of
1953).
The Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 1956 (71 of
1956).
The Repealing and Amending Act, 1957 (36 of 1957).
The Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 1961 (51 of
1961).
The Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 1962 (37 of
1962).
The Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 1965 (6 of 1965).
The Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 1971 (72 of
1971).
The Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 1973 (67 of
1973).
The Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 1974 (32 of
1974).
The Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 1979 (17 of
1979).
The Industries (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 1984 (4 of 1984).
The Delegated Legislation Provisions (Amendment) Act, 1986 (4 of 1986).
About this act
- Jurisdiction
- Madhya Pradesh
- Enactment date
- 1951-10-31
- Sections available
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India Code, Government of India. Text fetched 17 Oct 2026. Check the linked official text and subsequent notifications when applying a provision.