Preamble

ACT 3 OF 1984 THE SUPER CLAYS AND MINERALS MINING COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED (ACQUISITION OF UNDERTAKINGS) ACT, 1983 * An Act to provide for the acquisition and transfer of the undertakings of the Super Clays and Minerals Mining Company (Private) Limited, with a view to securing the proper management of such undertakings so as to subserve the interests of

the general public by ensuring the continued production and distribution of

china clay which is essential to the needs of the economy of the State, and for

matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Preamble.—WHEREAS the Super Clays and Minerals Mining Company (Private) Limited has at present the ownership of, and control over, a significant portion of the china clay produced in the State and marketed and distributed in India; AND WHEREAS the production of china clay by the Company had stopped from the year 1975 resulting in fall in production of the china clay which is essential to the needs of the economy of the State; AND WHEREAS the Company was not in a position to pay wages to its workers in consequence of which it declared a lay-off with effect from the 13th January, 1975, resulting in the unemployment of about six hundred workers directly employed in the undertakings of the Company; AND WHEREAS the Government of Kerala with the consent of the share holders of the Company, took over the management of the Company and declared the Company as a relief undertaking under the provisions of the Kerala Relief Undertakings (Special Provisions) Act, 1961 (6 of 1962), with effect from the 2nd March, 1976, and entrusted the management of the Company to the Kerala State Industrial Enterprises Limited which is a Government Company; AND WHEREAS it is expedient in the public interest to acquire the undertakings of the said Company to ensure that the interests of the general public are served by the continuance, by the undertakings of the Company, of the production and distribution of china clay which is essential to the needs of the economy of the State; BE it enacted in the Thirty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—