(a) The Commission shall serve a notice of revocation upon the licensee and shall fix a date on which the revocation shall take effect and on and with effect from that date or on and with effect from an earlier date, on which the undertaking of the licensee is sold to a purchaser in pursuance of clause (c) or is delivered to a designated purchaser in pursuance of subsection (3), all the rights, duties, obligations and liabilities of the licensee under this Act shall cease and determine.
(b) The Commission shall invite applications for purchase of the undertaking of the licensee whose licence is revoked and determine the price and other terms and conditions of the sale of the undertaking in consultation with the licensee and the person whose application has been accepted.
(c) The Commission may by notice in writing require the licensee to sell, and thereupon the licensee shall sell the undertaking to the person whose application has been accepted by the Commission (hereinafter in this section referred to as "the purchaser").
(i) by an order published in the Official Gazette , authorise any person or body of persons to take over the management of the undertaking of a licensee for such period not exceeding five years from the date of revocation as may be specified in the order,
(ii) endeavour to sell the undertaking during the aforesaid period.
(b) On the issue of the order authorising the taking over of the management of the undertaking-
(i) all persons in-charge of the management immediately before the issue of the order shall be deemed to have vacated their offices; and
(ii) the person or body of persons authorised to take over (hereinafter in this section referred to as "the authorised person or body") shall take all such steps as may be necessary to take into his or their custody or control all the necessary to take into his or their custody or control all the property, effects and actionable claims to which the undertaking is or appears to be entitled and all the property and effects of the undertaking shall be deemed to be in the custody of the person or, as the case may be, body of persons as from the date of the order;
(iii) where the undertaking of a licensee is a company, the persons authorised to take over the management of the undertaking shall, for all purposes, be the directors of the undertaking duly constituted under the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956) and shall alone be entitled to exercise the powers of the directors of the undertaking whether such powers are derived from the said Act or the Memorandum or Articles of Association of the undertaking or from any other source;
(iv) subject to the control of the Commission, the authorised person or body shall take such steps as may be necessary for the purpose of effectively managing the business of the undertaking and shall exercise such other powers and have such other duties as may be specified by the Commission;
(v) the authorised person or body shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the Memorandum or Articles of Association of the licensee, exercise his or their functions in accordance with such directions as may be given by the Commission.
(c) Where the undertaking of the licensee is sold within the period specified in the order issued under sub-clause (i) of clause (a), the order shall be deemed to have been rescinded from the date of sale.
(d) Where the undertaking of the licensee is not sold within the period specified in clause (a), the undertaking shall vest in the State Government free from all encumbrances.
(e) Where as undertaking of the licensee vests in the State Government under clause (d), there shall be paid to the licensee such value as may be determined by the State Government.
Section 24 • The Gujarat Electricity Industry (Reorganisation and Regulation) Act, 2003
24. Provisions where licence is revoked.
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