The Gujarat Electricity Supply Undertakings (Acquisition) Act, 1969

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    "title": "The Gujarat Electricity Supply Undertakings (Acquisition) Act, 1969",
    "short_title": "The Gujarat Electricity Supply Undertakings (Acquisition) Act, 1969",
    "act_number": "Gujarat Act No. 7 of 1969",
    "act_year": 1969,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
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    "description": "The Gujarat Electricity Supply Undertakings (Acquisition) Act, 1969",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(1) \"accredited representative\" means the representative appointed or deemed to have been appointed under section 7;\n(2) \"appointed day\" means the date of the coming into force of this Act;\n(3) \"document\" in relation to an undertaking includes its books;\n(4) \"Electricity Act\" means the Indian Electricity Act, 1910 (IX of 1910);\n(5) \"Electricity Supply Act\" means the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948 (LIV of 1948);\n(6) \"fixed assets\" includes works, spare parts, stores, tools, motor and other vehicles, office equipment and furnitures;\n(7) \"licensee\" means a person licensed under Part 11 of the Electricity Act, to supply electrical energy or a person who has obtained sanction under section 28 of that Act to engage in the business of supplying electricity and, in relation to an undertaking which has vested in the State Government under section 1, the person, who was the licensee at the time the undertaking vested in the State Government or his successor-in-interest;\n(8) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(9) \"vesting date\" means in relation to an undertaking the date fixed under sub-section (1) of section 1 as the date on which the undertaking shall vest in the State Government;\n(10) \"works\" includes electric supply lines and any lands, buildings, machinery or apparatus required to supply energy and to carry into effect the objects of a licence or sanction for the supply of electricity, granted under the Electricity Act;\n(11) words and expressions used but not defined in this Act shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Electricity Act or the rules made thereunder.",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Application of Act.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Power of State Government to take over any undertaking.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Vesting of the undertaking or its assets.",
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            "content": "(ii) in so far as they are in excess of the value on the vesting date of the corresponding assets, if any, vesting or deemed to have vested in the State Government; or\n(ii) where there are no corresponding assets which vest or are deemed to have vested in the State Government.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Compensation payable to a licensee.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Appointment of sole representative.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Effect of transactions not bona fide.",
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            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Deductions from the compensations.",
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            "content": "(a) the amount, if any, already paid in advance by way of compensation;\n(b) the amount, if any, specified in section 8;\n(c) the amount due, if any, from the licensee to the Gujarat Electricity Board for energy supplied by the Gujarat Electricity Board before the vesting date;\n(d) all other amounts and arrears of interest, if any thereon clue from the licensee to the State Government, except loans and arrears from interest, if any, thereon;\n(e) the amount, if any, equivalent to the loss sustained by the State Government by reason of any property or rights belonging to the undertaking not having been handed over to the State Government, the amount of such loss being deemed to be the market value on the vesting date of such property or right together with any income which might have been realised by the State Government if the property or rights had been handed over on the vesting date.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Repayment of debentures, etc.",
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        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Arbitration.",
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            "content": "(a) the amount of the compensation payable in respect of the undertaking as a whole or any component part thereof;\n(b) whether any property, belonging, or any right, liability or obligation attaching, to the undertaking vests in the State Government;\n(c) whether any fixed assets form part of the undertaking;\n(d) whether any agreement to supply electricity entered into by the licensee, prior to the vesting date is of the nature referred to in the proviso to subsection (3) of section 6;\n(e) whether the State Government is entitled to deduct any sum under section 8 or section 9.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Termination for existing staff of licensees.",
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            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Provisions for existing staff of licensees.",
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            "content": "(1) Every such person shall be deemed to be retrenched from service on the vesting date and shall be entitled to-\n(a) one month's pay to be calculated from the vesting date, and\n(b) retrenchment compensation which shall be equivalent to fifteen days' average pay for every completed year of continuous service or any part thereof in excess of six months.\n(2) Nothing in clause (1) shall prevent the State Government from retaining any such person in service on and after the vesting date and where any such person is retained in service, his services shall be governed by such rules as the State Government may, from time to time, make in this behalf:",
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        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Inventory of assets and information in regard to documents maintained by the licensee.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Power of entry.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Penalties.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Offences by companies or associations.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Protection of action taken under the Act.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Power to transfer undertaking to State Electricity Board.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Power of Government to make rules.",
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            "content": "(a) for the whole or any part of the State of Gujarat,\n(b) to provide for all or any matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed by rules.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Effect of other laws.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "guj047",
        "Act Number": "Gujarat Act No. 7 of 1969",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1969",
        "Short Title": "The Gujarat Electricity Supply Undertakings (Acquisition) Act, 1969",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}