(1) The National Textile Corporation may, by order in writing, transfer any textile undertaking specified at serial numbers 1 to 13 in the First Schedule or part of any such textile undertaking to the National Textile Corporation (South Maharashtra) Limited and any textile undertaking specified at serial numbers 14 and 15 in the First Schedule or part of any such textile undertaking to the National Textile Corporation (Uttar Pradesh) Limited, as the case may be, or to any other subsidiary textile corporation and any such transfer shall be subject to such terms and conditions as may be specified in the said order.
(2) The subsidiary textile corporation shall, on and from the date of such transfer, be deemed to be substituted in the licence or other instrument referred to in sub-section (3) of section 4 in place of the National Textile Corporation as if such licence or other instrument had been granted to the subsidiary textile corporation, and shall hold such licence or other instrument for the remainder of the period for which the National Textile Corporation would have held such licence or other instrument.
(3) On the transfer to a subsidiary textile corporation of any textile undertaking or any part thereof, the liabilities of the National Textile Corporation, referred to in sub-section (2) of section 5, shall, in so far as they relate to the textile undertaking or part thereof so transferred to the subsidiary textile corporation, become, on and from the date of such transfer, the liabilities of the subsidiary textile corporation and shall be discharged by the subsidiary textile corporation as and when any such liability is required to be discharged.
(4) Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, references in this Act to the National Textile Corporation shall, in respect of any textile undertaking or any part thereof which is transferred to a subsidiary textile corporation, be construed as references to the subsidiary textile corporation.