THE BENGAL PUBLIC DEMANDS RECOVERY (ASSAM AMENDMENT) ACT, 1962

98 ASSAM ACT No.XXVIII OF 1962 THE BENGAL PUBLIC DEMANDS RECOVERY (ASSAM AMENDMENT) ACT, 1962 (As passed by the Assembly) :Received the assent of the President on thf' 28th September 1962 [Published in the .Assam Ga;:,ette, Extraordinary, dated the 1st October 1962] An Act to e.merza the Bengal Public Demands Recovery Act, 1913 Preamble WHEREAS it IS expedient to amend the Ber.gal Bengal Act Public Demand:. Recovery Act, 1913, hereinalter refer- HI ol i9l3. red to as the principal Act in its application to the Shgrl title, eii;teQt and eommeqce• IQeQt. State of Assam for the purpose and in the manner hereinafter appearing ; It is hereby enacted in the Thirteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :- 1. (1) Thi~ Act may be called the Bengal Public Demands Recovery (Assam Amendment) Act, 196~ . (2) It extends to the whole of Assam. (3) It shall come into force at once. Insertion of 2. In Schedule 1 Article gA Article 9 the following in Schedule gA namely·~ · I to Bengal ' • to the principa,l Act, after shall bl_! inserted 11s Article Act Ill of 1913. ''9A. Any money payable to Government or to an officer of the Government in payment of a loan m cash or in kind, in respect of which money, the person to whom the loan in cash or in kind was advanced, has agreed by written instrument that such moni:y shall be recoverable as a public d~mand!' 3. The provisions of the principal Act shall C!-pply to all loans issued before coming into force of this amending Act, if the instrument granting the loan contained a provision that the money would be reco· verable as a public demand, and if the instrument is &till in force, as if on the date the said instrument was executed the principal Aq was am~nde~l. 11s herein t)rovided,