Section 3. “Undertaking”— meaning of.

For the purposes of this Act, the undertaking of a dissolved company or of a transferred unit shall be deemed to include all assets, rights, leaseholds (including mining leases, if any), industrial or other licences, powers, authorities and privileges and all property, movable and immovable, including lands, buildings, works, mines, workshops, projects, smelters, stores, instruments, machinery, automobiles and other vehicles, cash or bank balances, cash in hand, investments, and book debts and all other rights and interests in, or arising out of, such property as were immediately before the appointed day in the ownership, possession, power or control of the dissolved company or the transferred unit, as the case may be (whether within or without India), and all books of account, registers maps, drawings, records of survey and all other documents of whatever nature relating thereto, and shall also be deemed to include all borrowings, liabilities and obligations of whatever kind of the dissolved company or the transferred unit. /hrt1 Explanation.--Reference in this section to an undertaking of a transferred unit shall be deemed to be a reference to so much of the undertaking of the company of which that forms a unit as is relatable to it as if it were a separate company.