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SICK INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1985*
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.... 17 OF SICK INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1985* Powers of Board to make suitable order on the completion of inquiry. 17. (1) If after making an inquiry under section 16, the Board is satisfied that a company has become a sick industrial company, the Board shall, after considering all the relevant facts and circumstances of the case, decide, as soon as may be by order in writing, whether it is practicable for the company to make its net worth exceed the accumulated losses within a reasonable time. (2) If the Board decides under sub-section (1) that it is practicable for a sick industrial company to make its net worth exceed the accumulated losses within a reasonable time, the Board, shall, by order in writing and su....
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....nction of schemes. 18. (1) Where an order is made under sub-section (3) of section 17 in relation to any sick industrial company, the operating agency specified in the order shall prepare, as expeditiously as possible and ordinarily within a period of ninety days from the date of such order, a scheme with respect to such company providing for any one or more of the following measures, namely :- (a) the financial reconstruction of the sick industrial company; (b) the proper management of the sick industrial company by change in, or take over of, the management of the sick industrial company; (c) the amalgamation of- (i) the sick industrial company with any other company, or (ii) any other compa....
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....hich, 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; (d) the alteration of the memorandum or articles of association of the sick industrial company or, as the case may be, of the transferee company for the purpose of altering the capital structure thereof or for such other purposes as may be necessary to give effect to the reconstruction or amalgamation; (e) the continuation by, or against, the sick industrial company or, as the case may be, the transferee company of any action or other legal proceeding pending against the sick industrial company immediately before the date of the order made under s....
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....ing of the sick industrial company to any person, including a co-operative society formed by the employees of such undertaking; (k) method of sale of the assets of the industrial undertaking of the sick industrial company such as by public auction or by inviting tenders or in any other manner as may be specified and for the manner of publicity therefor; (l) transfer or issue of the shares in the sick industrial company at the face value or at the intrinsic value which may be at discount value or such other value as may be specified to any industrial company or any person including the executives and employees of the sick industrial company; (m) such incidental, consequential and supplemental matters as may be nece....
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...., as soon as may be, by the board (hereinafter referred to as the "sanctioned scheme") and shall come into force on such date as the Board may specify in this behalf : Provided that different dates may be specified for different provisions of the scheme. (5) The Board may on the recommendations of the operating agency or otherwise, review any sanctioned scheme and make such modifications as it may deem fit or may by order in writing direct any operating agency specified in the order, having regard to such guidelines as may be specified in the order, to prepare a fresh scheme providing for such measures as the operating agency may consider necessary. (6) When a fresh scheme is prepared under sub-section (5), the provisions of sub-se....