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THE BIHAR AND UTTAR PRADESH (ALTERATION OF BOUNDARIES) ACT, 1968 · APPORTIONMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

Section 20 — Liability as guarantor of co-operative societies

Where, immediately before the appointed day, the State of Bihar or Uttar Pradesh is liable as guarantor in respect of any liability of a registered co-operative society, that liability shall,—
(a)if the area of the society’s operations is limited to the transferred territories, be a liability of the State to which the territories are transferred; and
(b)in any other case, continue to be a liability of the State which, immediately before that day, was subject to such liability.