{"id":236574,"date":"2020-10-01T14:08:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T08:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=236574"},"modified":"2021-07-30T09:28:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T03:58:44","slug":"banking-regulation-amendment-act-2020-rbi-to-prepare-a-scheme-for-reconstruction-or-amalgamation-of-banking-company-without-necessity-of-a-moratorium-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/10\/01\/banking-regulation-amendment-act-2020-rbi-to-prepare-a-scheme-for-reconstruction-or-amalgamation-of-banking-company-without-necessity-of-a-moratorium-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Banking Regulation (Amendment) Act, 2020 | Co-operative banks brought under RBI supervision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Banking Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2020 received Presidential Assent on 29-09-2020.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Banking Regulation (Amendment) Act, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Banking Regulation (Amendment) Act, 2020 will replace the Banking Regulation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Certain amendments were considered necessary in the said Act to provide for better management and proper regulation of co-operative banks and to ensure that the affairs of the co-operative banks are conducted in a manner that protects the interests of the depositors, by increasing professionalism, enabling access to capital, improving governance and ensuring sound banking through the Reserve Bank of India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further amendments were proposed to be made in Section 45 of the Act to enable the Reserve Bank of India to make a scheme to protect the interests of the public, the banking system, depositors or to secure the banking company&#8217;s proper management, without first making an order of moratorium so as to avoid disruptions in the financial system.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Following are the features:<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(i) substitution of Section 3 to provide that the Act shall not apply to\u2014 (a) a primary agricultural credit society; or (b) a co-operative society whose primary object and principal business is providing of long term finance for agricultural development, if such society does not use as part of its name, or in connection with its business, the words &#8220;bank&#8221;, &#8220;banker&#8221; or &#8220;banking&#8221; and does not act as drawee of cheques;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ii) amendment of Section 45 to address the potential disruptions in the financial system by providing for the Reserve Bank of India to prepare a scheme for the reconstruction or amalgamation of the banking company without the necessity of first making an order of moratorium;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(iii) amendment of Section 56 to provide that notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the provisions of the Act shall apply to co-operative societies, subject to the modifications specified therein.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Read the Act, here:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/egazette.nic.in\/WriteReadData\/2020\/222114.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Banking Regulation (Amendment) Act, 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Ministry of Law and Justice<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banking Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2020 received Presidential Assent on 29-09-2020. 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