STATE FINANCIAL CORPORATION ACT 1951 It enacted by Parliament as follows:(1) This Act may be called the State Financial

Corporations Act, 1951. (2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. (3) It shall come into force in any State on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

Establishment of State Financial Corporations:I. The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, establish a Financial Corporation for the State under such name as may be specified in the notification. The Financial Corporation shall be a body corporate by the name notification under sub-section (1), having perpetual succession and a common seal, with power, subject to the provisions of this Act, to acquire and to hold property and stall, by the said name sue and be sued.

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UNDER Section 29 Rights of Financial Corporation in case of default:Where any industrial concern, which is under a liability to the Financial Corporation under an agreement, makes any default in re-payment of any loan or advance or any instalment thereof or otherwise fails to comply with the terms of its agreement with the Financial Corporation, the Financial Corporation shall have the right to take over the management of the industrial Corporation shall have the right to take over the management of the industrial concern, as well as the right to sell and realise the property pledged, mortgaged, hypothecated or assigned to the Financial Corporation. (2) Any transfer of property made by the Financial Corporation, in exercise of its powers of sale and realisation under sub-section (1), shall vest in the transferee all rights in or to the property transferred as if the sale had been made by the owner of the property. (3) The Financial Corporation shall have the same rights and powers with respect to goods manufactured or produced wholly or partly from goods forming part of the security held by it as it had with respect to the original goods.

(4) Where any property is sold or realised by the Financial Corporation under the provisions of this section, the money which is received by it from such sale or realisation shall, in the absence of any contract to the contrary, be held by the Financial Corporation in trust to be applied, first, in payment of all costs, charges and expenses properly incurred by it as incident to the said sale or realisation and, secondly in discharge of the debt due to the financial Corporation and the residue of the money so received shall be paid to the person entitled thereto. (5) Where the Financial Corporation takes over the management of an industrial concern under the provisions of sub-section (1), the Financial Corporation shall be deemed to be the owner of such concern, for the purposes of suits by or against the concern, and shall sue and be sued in the name of the owner of the concern. Section 31 Special provisions for enforcement of claims by Financial Corporation (1) Where an industrial concern, in breach of any agreement, makes any default in repayment of any loan or advance or any instalment thereof falls to comply with the terms of its agreement with the Financial corporation or where the Financial Corporation requires an industrial concern to make immediate repayment of any loan or advance under section 30 and the industrial concern fails to make such repayment, any officer of the financial Corporation generally or specially authorised by the Board in this behalf, may apply to the district judge within the limits of whose jurisdiction the industrial concern carries on the whole or a substantial part of its business for one or more of, the following reliefs, namely:(a) For an order for the sale of the property pledge, mortgaged, hypothecated or assigned to the Corporation as security for the loan or advance; or (b) For transferring the management of the industrial concern to the Financial Corporation; or (c) For an ad interim injunction restraining the industrial concern from transferring or removing its machinery or plant or equipment from the premises of the industrial concern without the permission of the Board, where such removal is apprehended. (2) An application under sub-section (1) shall state the nature and extent of the liability of the industrial concern to the Financial Corporation the ground on which it is made and such other particulars as may be prescribed. Section 32 Procedure of district judge in respect of applications under section 31 (1) When the application is for the reliefs mentioned in clauses (a) and (c) of sub-section (1) of section 31, the district judge shall pass an ad interim order attaching the security, or so much of the property of the industrial concern as would on being sold realise in his estimate an amount equivalent in value to the outstanding liability of the industrial concern to the Financial Corporation, together with the costs of the

proceedings taken under section 31, with or without an ad interim injuction restraining the industrial concern from transferring or removing its machinery, plant or equipment. (2) When the application is for the relief mentioned in clause (b) of subsection (1) of section 31, the district judge shall grant an ad interim injunction restraining the industrial concern from transferring or removing its machinery, plant or equipment and issue a notice calling upon the industrial concern to show cause, on a date to be specified in the notice, why the management of the industrial concern should not be transferred to the Financial Corporation. (3) If cause is shown, the district judge shall proceed to investigate the claim of the Financial Corporation in accordance with the provisions contained in the Code of Civil Procedure, n so far as such provisions may be applied thereto. (4) The functions of a district judge under this section shall, in a presidency town, be exercised by the principal judge of the City civil Court, if any, having jurisdiction or by the High Court.