1[29A. Power in respect of associate enterprises.—(1) The Reserve Bank may, at any time, direct direct a banking company to annex to its financial statements or furnish to it separately, within such time and at such intervals as may be specified by the Reserve Bank, such statements and information relating to the business or affairs of any associate enterprise of the banking company as the Reserve Bank may consider necessary or expedient to obtain for the purpose of this Act.
(2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), the Reserve Bank may, at any time, cause an inspection to be made of any associate enterprise of a banking company and its books of account jointly by one or more of its officers or employees or other persons along with the Board or authority regulating such associate enterprise.
(3) The provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 35 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the inspection under this section.
Explanation.—"associate enterprise " in relation to a banking company includes an enterprise which—