3A. Change of name of a subsidiary bank.- (1) The Central Government after consulting the State Bank and the Reserve Bank may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that the name of any subsidiary bank shall, with effect from such date as may be specified in this behalf, be changed to any other name and thereupon any reference to that subsidiary bank in this Act or any other law for the time being in force or in any contract, instrument or document shall be construed as a reference to that bank by its new name.
(2) The change in the name of a subsidiary bank under sub-section (1) shall not affect any rights or obligations of that bank or render defective any legal proceedings by or against it, and any legal proceedings which might have been continued or commenced by or against that bank by its former name may be continued by or against it by its new name.
*Inserted by the State-Associated Banks (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1962 (56 of 1962), Section3 w.e.f. 14-12-1962.]
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