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Manner of payment of compensation. - (1) When the time within which appeals under Section 27 may be made in respect of any entry in or omission from a Compensation Assessment-Roll has expired or where any such appeal has been made under that Section and the same has been disposed of, the Compensation Officer shall proceed to make payment, in the manner provided in this Section, to the proprietors, tenure-holders and other persons who are shown in such Compensation Assessment-Roll as finally published under Section 28 to be entitled to compensation of the compensation payable to them in terms of the said roll after deducting from the amount of any compensation so payable any amount which has been [paid under Section 32A or has been] ordered by the Collector under [**] clause (c) of Section 4 [or under any other Section] to be so deducted. (2) The amount of compensations so payable in terms of a Compensation Assessment-Roll as finally published shall be paid in case or in bonds or partly in cash and partly in bonds. The bonds shall be either negotiable or non-negotiable and non-transferable and be payable in [forty equal instalments] to the person named therein and shall carry interest at two and a half per centum per annum with effect from the date of issue. (3) The Compensation Officer shall in the prescribed manner tender payment of the compensation so payable in cash or in bonds to the person or persons entitled thereto according to the Compensation Assessment-Roll as finally published and shall pay it to such person or persons unless prevented by some one or more of the contingencies mentioned in sub-section (4) or sub-section (5). [(4) If the estate or tenure in respect of which the compensation is payable is held by a limited owner or the holder of a life interest, the Compensation Officer shall keep the amount of compensation in deposit with the Collector of the district and the Collector shall direct the payment of the interest accruing on the amount of compensation to the limited owner or the holder of the life interest during his life time. Such amount shall remain deposited with the Collector until the [amount of compensation] or portion thereof after making payments, if any, under the proviso to this sub-section is made over to any person or persons becoming absolutely entitled thereto: Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall be deemed to affect the right of any limited owner or the holder of a life interest to apply to the District Judge for the payment of a part of the [amount of compensation] to defray any expenses which may be necessary to meet any legal necessity.] [32A. Payment of an amount not exceeding fifty per centum of the compensation. - Where the Compensation Officer considers that delay is likely to occur in payment of compensation under Section 32, he may subject to the provisions of Section 32B, pay in the manner, so far as may be applicable, provided in Section 32, to the person entitled thereto under this Act a sum not exceeding 50% of the approximate amount of compensation payable to him under Section 32 calculated in the manner prescribed in this behalf: Provided that if, subsequently it is found by the Compensation Officer or the Collector that any amount has been paid to any person in excess of the amount payable to him under Section 32 or that the person to whom the amount has been paid was not entitled to it under this Act, the amount so paid shall after giving the person concerned a reasonable opportunity of being heard, be recoverable from him together with interest at 6 ¼ percent per annum as if it were a public demand.