Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The Government shall, by order in writing, appoint an Administrator who shall be an Officer not below the rank of Subdivisional Information Officer for the purpose of management of a notified Institution in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder. Appoint- ment of Adminis- trator. 247 The Rabindra Cultural Institutions (Taking over of Management) Act, 1980. [West Ben. Act (Section 5.) (2) On the appointment of an Administrator under sub-section (1), the charge of management of the notified Institution shall vest in such Administrator and all persons in charge of the management of such Institution, immediately before such appointment, shall cease to be in charge of such management and shall be. bound to deliver to the Administrator all assets, books of account, registers or other documents in their custody relating to such Institution. (3) The Government may issue such directions to the Administrator as to his powers and duties (including directions as to initiating, defending or continuing any legal proceedings before any court, tribunal or other authority) as the Government thinks fit and the Administrator may apply to the Government at any time for instructions as to the manner in which he shall carry on the management as to the notified Institution or in relation to any matter arising in the course of such management. (4) Subject to other provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder and the control of the Government, an Administrator shall be entitled (notwithstanding anything contained in the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961 or in any other law for the time being in force) to exercise all the powers, in relation to the notified Institution, of the Governing Body or, as the case may be, of the board of trustees or of the executive committee, including the powers to dispose of any property or assets of such notified Institution whether or not such powers are derived from any law for the time being in force or from the memorandum and rules and regulations of the concerned notified Institution or from any other source. (5) Any person who, on the date of vesting, has in his possession or control any books, papers or other documents relating to the notified Institution, shall, notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, be liable to account for the books, papers and other documents, to the Administrator and shall deliver them up to the Administrator or to such other person as may be authorised by the Administrator in this behalf. (6) Every person in charge of the management of the notifiedlnstitution immediately before the date of vesting, shall, within ten days from that date or within such further period as the Government may allow in this behalf, furnish to the Administrator a complete inventory of all properties and assets )including particulars of book debts, investments and belongings) forming part of the notified Institution immediately before the date of vesting and of all liabilities and obligations of the notified Institution subsisting immediately before the date of vesting. West Ben. Act XXVI of 1961. 248 The Rabindra Cultural Institutions (Taking over of Management) Act, 1980. LIII of 1980.] (Sections 6, 7.)