The Bombay Statutory Corporations (Regional Reorganization) Act, 1960

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    "title": "The Bombay Statutory Corporations (Regional Reorganization) Act, 1960",
    "short_title": "The Bombay Statutory Corporations (Regional Reorganization) Act, 1960",
    "act_number": "Bombay Act No. 21 of 1960",
    "act_year": 1960,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Bombay Statutory Corporations (Regional Reorganization) Act, 1960",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"existing corporation\" means a body corporate constituted under any Act mentioned in the Schedule or any such body which is deemed to be the body corporate for the purposes of any such Act, or which is performing the functions, discharging the duties and exercising the powers of any such body;\n(b) \"Gujarat region\" means such area as the State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette, specify to be the Gujarat region;\n(c) \"Maharashtra region\" means the area comprised in the [Bombay area of the State of Gujarat] excluding the transferred territories and also the Gujarat region;\n(d) \"region\" means the Maharashtra region or the Gujarat region; and \"regional\" shall be construed accordingly.",
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            "is_definition": true,
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        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Reorganisation of existing corporations and setting up of regional corporations.",
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            "content": "(a) the dissolution of any existing corporation;\n(b) the reorganisation and reconstitution in any manner whatsoever of an existing corporation, including the constitution where necessary of one or more regional corporations;\n(c) the area in which the existing corporation as reorganised or any new corporation shall function and operate;\n(d) the nomination of a chairman or president of any existing corporation as reorganised or of any new corporation;\n(e) the nomination of such number of members to constitute any existing corporation as reogranised or any new corporation for such period as may be specified in the order or until a corporation is duly constituted for the region under any of the Acts aforesaid;\n(f) the provision for a quorum for the meeting and other proceedings of an existing corporation as reorganised or for any new corporation;\n(g) where an existing corporation is a corporation sole the appointment of any person to the office of that corporation as reorganised or of any such new corporation;\n(h) the appointment of any Registrar or any other officer or person required to be appointed by or under any of the Acts aforesaid and the terms and conditions of service applicable to him;\n(i) the transfer in whole or in part of the assets rights and liabilities of the existing corporation including the rights and liabilities under any contract made by it to one or more new corporation and the terms of such transfer;\n(j) the substitution of any such transferee of the existing corporation or the addition of any such transferee as a party to any legal proceedings or proceedings pending before any officer or authority to which the existing corporation is a party;\n(k) the transfer of any proceedings pending before any existing corporation or any officer or authority to any new corporation or any other officer or authority which may be designated;\n(l) the transfer or re-employment of any employees of an existing corporation to or by any such transferee and the terms and conditions of service applicable to such employees after such transfer or re-employment:\n(m) that any registers maintained by an existing corporation shall be divided in such manner as is provided in the order or that such registers shall be deemed to be prepared or maintained by the existing corporation as reorganised or by any new corporation or by each of them;\n(n) that any person who immediately before a specified date is on any register or list prepared and maintained by any existing corporation under any of the Acts aforesaid shall be entitled to practise in the area within the jurisdiction of the existing corporation as reorganised or any new corporation or within the jurisdiction of both of them;\n(o) that any institution recognised or approved by any existing corporation shall be deemed to be recognised or approved by the existing corporation as reorganised or by any new corporation or by both of them in such way and subject to such conditions as may be specified in the order;\n(p) that a public trust duly registered under the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950 (Bombay XXIX of 1950) the property of which is wholly situated in one region and the registered office of which is in another region or the property of which is partly situated in one region and partly in another shall be deemed to be registered in a particular region or in both regions;\n(q) the division or re-allocation of any schemes which may be formulated approved or sanctioned by the existing corporation as reorganised and any new corporation or between any new corporations;\n(r) the provision for the right to recover any loans subventions contributions or other monies or any part thereof by the State Government or by the existing corporation as reorganised or by any new corporation;\n(s) the provision that anything done or any action taken (including any appointment or delegation made notification order instruction or direction issued rule regulation form bye-law, or scheme framed certificate obtained permit or licence granted or registration effected) by the existing corporation shall be deemed to be a thing done or action taken by the existing corporation as recorganised or any new corporation or by each of them;\n(t) all incidental consequential or supplementary matters as may be necessary to give effect to the establishment of regional corporations and for the proper and just distribution of rights assets and liabilities between them;\n(u) the adaptation and modification of any of the Acts aforesaid under which an existing corporation is functioning and operating whether by way of repeal or amendments may be necessary or expedient to give effect to the setting up of regional corporations.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Power of State Government to add to Schedule.",
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            "content": "The Schedule\n[ See Sections 2 And 4]\n[ See Sections 2 And 4]\nExisting Corporation\nExisting Corporation\nRelevant Act\nRelevant Act\n1\n2\n1.\nThe Secondary School Certificate The Bombay\n\t\t\t\tSecondary School Certificate Examination Board.\nExamination Act, 1948 (Bombay XLIX of 1948).\n2.\nThe Bombay Housing Board\nThe Bombay Housing Board Act, 1948 (Bombay LXIX\n\t\t\t\tof 1948).\n3.\nThe Khar Lands Development Board\nThe Bombay Khar Lands Act, 1948 (Bombay LXXII of\n\t\t\t\t1948).\n4.\nThe Charity Commissioner, Bombay\nThe Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950 (Bombay XXIX\n\t\t\t\tof 1950).\n5.\nThe Bombay Labour Welfare Board\nThe Bombay Labour Welfare Fund Act, 1953 (Bombay\n\t\t\t\tXL of 1953).",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 3
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "guj202",
        "Act Number": "Bombay Act No. 21 of 1960",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1960",
        "Short Title": "The Bombay Statutory Corporations (Regional Reorganization) Act, 1960",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}