5Central Government or Cement Corporation not to be liable for prior liabilities

(1) Every liability of the Company in respect of any period prior to the appointed day, shall be the liability of the Company and shall be enforceable against it and not against the Central Government, or, where the undertakings of the Company are directed under section 6 to vest in the Cement Corporation, against that Corporation.

(2) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that,--

(a) save as otherwise expressly provided in this section or in any other provision of this Act, no liability of the Company in respect of any period prior to the appointed day, shall be enforceable against the Central Government, or where the undertakings of the Company are directed under section 6 to vest in the Cement Corporation, against that Corporation;

(b) no award, decree or order of any court, tribunal or other authority in relation to the undertakings of the Company, passed after the appointed day, in respect of any matter, claim or dispute which arose before that day, shall be enforceable against the Central Government, or, where the undertakings of the Company are directed under section 6 to vest in the Cement Corporation, against that Corporation;

(c) no liability incurred by the Company before the appointed day, for the contravention of a provision of any law for the time being in force, shall be enforceable against the Central Government, or, where the undertakings of the Company are directed under section 6 to vest in the Cement Corporation, against that Corporation.