[(1)] Without prejudice to the provisions of the State Bank of India Act, 1955 (23 of
1955), or any other enactment, the provisions of sections 10, 13 to 15, 17, 8[19 to 21A, 23 to 28, 29 [excluding sub-section (3)], 9[29A] 1[sub-sections (1B), (1C) and (2) of section 30, 31], 34, 35, 35A, 1[35AA, 35AB,] 36 [excluding clause (d) of sub-section (1)], 45Y to 45ZF, 46 to 48] 50, 52 and 53 shall also apply; so far as may be, to and in relation to the State Bank of India [or any corresponding new bank or a Regional Rural Bank or any subsidiary bank] as they apply to and in relation to banking companies:
[Provided that—
(a) nothing contained in clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 10 shall apply to the chairman of the State Bank of India or to a 1[managing director] of any subsidiary bank in so far as the said clause precludes him from being a director of, or holding an office in, any institution approved by the Reserve Bank;
Indian Companies Act, 1913 (7 of 1913)” have successively been amended by Act 95 of 1956, s. 11, Act 33 of 1959, s. 34 and Act 55 of 1963, s. 27 to read as above.
[(b) nothing contained in sub-clause (iii) of clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 20 shall apply to any bank referred to in sub-section (1), in so far as the said sub-clause (iii) of clause (b) precludes that bank from entering into any commitment for granting any loan or advance to or on behalf of a company (not being a Government company) in which not less than forty per cent. of the paid-up capital is held (whether singly or taken together) by the Central Government or the Reserve Bank or a corporation owned by that bank; and
(c) nothing contained in section 46 or in section 47A shall apply to,—
(i) an officer of the Central Government or the Reserve Bank, nominated or appointed as director of the State Bank of India or any corresponding new bank or a Regional Rural Bank or any subsidiary bank or a banking company; or
(ii) an officer of the State Bank of India or a corresponding new bank or a Regional Rural Bank or a subsidiary bank nominated or appointed as director of any of the said banks (not being the bank of which he is an officer) or of a banking company.] * * * * * [(2) References to a banking company in any rule or direction relating to any provision of this Act referred to in sub-section (1) shall, except where such rule or direction provides otherwise, be construed as referring also to the State Bank of India, a corresponding new bank, a Regional Rural Bank and a subsidiary bank.]