The Cowasjee Jehangir Baronetcy (Repealing) Act, 1964

1. (1) This Act may be called the Sir Cowasjee Jehangir Baronetcy (Repealing) Act, 1964.
2. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

1. (1) On the commencement of this Act the Baronetcy Act shall stand repealed; and—
   • (a) the trusts, powers, provisions, declarations and purposes by and in that Act declared and expressed shall be, and are hereby, revoked and extinguished ;
   • (b) the Corporation shall be and is hereby dissolved, and shall cease to function, and the Trustees shall cease to hold office as such Trustees ;
   • (c) all property, moveable and immovable (including promissory notes, bonds, stocks, funds and securities, moneys and investments and the Mansion-houses and other hereditaments in the Baronetcy Act referred to as "Readymoney House" and "Fort Mansion" situate in Greater Bombay and all other lands, buildings, tenements and premises wherever situate, and any interest therein) vesting in the Corporation under the Baronetcy Act, shall be deemed to be transferred to, and shall vest without further assurance in, the present Baronet Sir Cowasjee Jehangir (hereinafter referred to as "the Baronet") subject to the provisions of this Act ;
   • (d) all rights, liabilities and obligations of the Corporation constituted under the said Act under the style and title of "The Trustees of the Sir Cowasjee Jehangir Baronetcy" (in this Act referred to as "the Corporation") whether arising out of contract or howsoever otherwise arising, shall be deemed to be the rights, liabilities and obligations of the Baronet ;
   • (e) all contracts made with, and all instruments executed on behalf of, the Corporation shall be deemed to have been made with, or executed on behalf of, the Baronet and shall have effect accordingly ;
   • (f) in all suits and legal proceedings pending at the commencement of this Act in or to which the Corporation is a party the Baronet shall be deemed to be substituted for the Corporation.
2. (2) Nothing in sub-section
3. (1) shall affect any right of, or any interest (including any jointures) in, the property mentioned in clause
   • (c) of that sub-section which any person, body or authority may be entitled under the due process of law to enforce against the Baronet or his heirs and legal representatives.

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Baronetcy Act or any law for the time being in force, the Corporation and each of the Trustees thereof who before the commencement of this Act was or has been for the time being in the office of such Trustee in pursuance of the provisions of the Baronetcy Act, the heirs, executors and administrators, estates and effects of each of such Trustees, and the successors in office of such Trustees, are hereby released and discharged jointly and severally from all accounts, suits or other legal proceedings, claims and demands whatsoever for or in relation to any failure or omission of the Corporation or the Trustees to do anything that was required to be done under the provisions of the Baronetcy Act, and from any liability for anything in good faith done or purported to have been done under or in pursuance of the provisions of that Act; and accordingly, no suit or other legal proceeding whatsoever shall lie in any court against the Corporation or any of the said Trustees, executors, administrators, estates, effects or successors for or in respect of any such failure, omission or action.

No suit or other legal proceeding shall lie against the Government or any officer of the Government for anything in good faith done or purported to be done under this Act, or in pursuance of the provisions of the Baronetcy Act.