HE BIRD AND COMPANY LIMITED (ACQUISITION AND TRANSFER OF UNDERTAKINGS AND OTHER PROPERTIES) ACT, 1980
An Act to provide for the acquisition and transfer of the undertakings of the Bird and Company
Limited for the purpose of ensuring the continuity of production of goods which are vital to
the needs of the country and for the acquisition of shares held by the Bird and Company
Limited in the specified companies for the purpose of securing to those undertakings the
facilities and advantages derived by reason of such shareholding with respect to the operation
and functioning of those undertakings and also to enable the Central Government to exercise
such control over the affairs of the specified companies as is necessary to ensure that the
affairs of those companies are not mismanaged and for matters connected therewith or
incidental thereto.
WHEREAS the Bird and Company Limited were engaged in the manufacture of E.O.T. cranes and
other varieties of cranes; polystyrene based cation exchange resin; equipment for fertilizers, oil refineries,
steel plants, petro-chemical and other industries; tanks and vessels of various shapes and sizes, water
treatment equipment and other types of equipment for the control of water pollution and were also
engaged in various other activities;
AND WHEREAS the top management of the Bird and Company Limited had so mismanaged the affairs
of that Company as to cause heavy losses to the Company and had also managed the affairs of the
Company in a manner prejudicial to the interests of the Company and the public interest;
AND WHEREAS in view of the mismanagement aforesaid, the Central Government had, in pursuance
of the provisions of section 408 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), appointed six directors on the
Board of directors of the Bird and Company Limited;
AND WHEREAS investment of a large amount is necessary for the maintenance and development of the
production of the undertakings of the Company;
AND WHEREAS it is necessary in the public interest to acquire the undertakings of the Bird and
Company Limited to enable the Central Government to have such investment made and to ensure that the
interests of the general public are served by the continuance, by the undertakings of the Company, of the
manufacture, production and distribution of goods or articles which are essential to the needs of the
economy of the country;
AND WHEREAS the Bird and Company Limited is holding shares in the specified companies which are
either engaged in the production, distribution or marketing of goods which are vital to the needs of the
country or are engaged in providing finance to other companies which are so engaged and it is expedient
in the public interest to acquire the said shares to secure for the undertakings of the Company the facilities
and advantages derived by reason of such shareholding with respect to the operation and functioning of
such undertakings and also to enable the Central Government to exercise, through such shareholdings,
such control on the affairs of those companies as may be necessary to prevent their mismanagement;
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
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