THE GRESHAM AND CRAVEN OF INDIA (PRIVATE) LIMITED (ACQUISITION AND TRANSFER OF UNDERTAKINGS) ACT, 1977
An Act to provide for the acquisition and transfer of the undertakings of Messrs. Gresham and
Craven of India (Private) Limited for the purpose of ensuring the continuity of production of
goods which are vital to the needs of the Railways and of the industries manufacturing
engineering products and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
WHEREAS Messrs. Gresham and Craven of India (Private) Limited were engaged in the manufacture
and production of components of rolling stock like vacuum brake equipment, ejectors, steam brake valves
and vacuum exhausters and the like needed by the Railways and the industries manufacturing engineering
products;
AND WHEREAS as a result of the losses suffered by the Company, there had been a closure of the
works owned by the Company;
AND WHEREAS for the purposes of speedily bringing the closed works of the Company into operation,
the management of the undertakings of the Company was taken over by the Central Government for a
limited period under section 18A of the Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 (65 of 1951);
AND WHEREAS it is necessary to acquire the undertakings of the Company to ensure the continuance
of the production of goods which are vital to the needs of the Railways and of the industries
manufacturing engineering products;
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
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