(1)

Save as otherwise provided in this Act, every employee of an existing bank in the employment of that bank immediately before the appointed day, shall, on and from that day, become an employee of the corresponding new bank and shall hold his office or service therein by the same tenure, at the same remuneration and upon the same terms and conditions and with the same rights and privileges as to pension, gratuity and other matters as he would have held the same on the appointed day, if the undertaking of the existing bank had not been transferred to and vested in the corresponding new bank, and shall continue to do so unless and until his employment in that bank is terminated or until his remuneration or other terms and conditions of service are revised or altered by the corresponding new bank under, or in pursuance of, any law, or in accordance with any provision which, for the time being, governs his service:

Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall apply to an employee of the Bank of Patiala who holds a civil post under the State of Punjab unless, prior to the appointed day, he has intimated his consent to become an employee of the State Bank of Patiala by notice in writing, given to the Government of that State through the Bank of Patiala.

(2)

Any person who, on the appointed day, is entitled to, or is in receipt of, a pension or other superannuation or compassionate allowance or other benefit from an existing bank or from any provident, pension or other fund or from any authority administering such fund, shall be entitled to be paid by, and to receive from, the corresponding new bank or any provident, pension or other fund or from any authority administering such fund, the same pension, allowance or benefit, so long as he observes the conditions on which the pension, allowance or benefit was granted, and if any question arises whether he has so observed such conditions, the question shall be determined by the State Bank and its decision thereon shall be final

(3)

For the persons who immediately before the appointed day are the trustees of, or the members of any authority administering, any fund constituted for the benefit of the employees of an existing bank, there shall be substituted as trustees or members such persons as the State Bank may, by general or special order, specify.

(4)

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), or any other law or in any agreement for the time being in force, the transfer from an existing bank of the services of any officer or employee of that bank to the corresponding new bank in terms of this section shall not entitle any such officer or employee, to any compensation to which he would, but for this provision, have been entitled under any such law or agreement, and no claim in respect of such compensation shall be entertained by any court, tribunal or other authority.