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Payment of purchase price, amount of encumbrance, mazntmance or alzmony.-( I) The purchase pnce payable to the landowner and the intermed1anes shall be distributed by the Land Board accordmg to the provisiom. of sub-sections (2) to (9). (2) Where the right, title and mterest of the landowner or the intermed1aries arc not subject to any encumbrance or charge for mam- tenance or ahmony, the purchase price pa1d by the cult1vatmg tenant shall be paid to the landowner or apportioned among the landowner and the mtermed1aries in the manner specified in sub-section (2) or sub- section (3), as the case may be, of section 56. '• (3) Where the right, title and interest of the landowner or the intermediaries in the holdmg are subject to any encumbrance or charge for mamtenance or alimony, the value of such encumbrance, main- tenance or alimony shall be deducted from the purchase pnce payable to the landowner or the mtermediary, as the ca'ie may be, and the balance amount shall be paid to the landowner or apportioned among the landowner and the intermediaries in the manner spec1fied in sub- section (2) or sub-section (3), as the case may be, of sect10n 56. If the total amount of such encumbrance, mamtenance or ahmony is equal to or more than the amount of the purchase pnce payable to the 40 landowner or the intermediary, the whole amount shall be reserved for payment to the holder of the encumbrance, or the person entitled to the mamtenance or ahmony and no amount shall be pa1d to the landowner or the intermediary, as the case may be. (4) Where the right, title and interest of the landowner or the intermediary vested in the cultivating tenant form part of the secunty for any encumbrance or charge for mamtenance or alimony, the Land Tribunal shall, for the purpose of discharging the same, apportion the entire encumbrance or the charge for the maintenance or alimony between the portion of the land, the right, title and mterest over which vested in the tenant and the portion remaining after such vesting, in proportion to the values of the two portions of the property, and dis- charge only the liability pertaining to the portiOn to wh1ch the purchase relates. (5) Where any amount has been deducted or resened for pay- ment to the holders of the encumbrances or the persons entitled to the maintenance or alimony, the same shall be pa1d m the1r order of prio- nty to the persons entitled thereto. (6) Where the cultivating tenant pays the purchase price in instalments, the amount of each mstalment shall be distributed in the manner specified above. The interest on the purchase price paid by the cultivating tenant shall also be paid to the landowner, intermediary, holder of the encumbrance or the person entitled to the mamtenance or alimony, as the case may be. (7) Where a person entitled to the purchase price or the value of the encumbrance, mamtenance or alimony d1es before it is paid to him, it shall be paid to his legal representatives. (8) Where the person entitled to receive the purchase price or the value of encumbrance is a pnvate tru~t or endowment or a minor or a person sulfermg from some legal disabJIIty or a hm1ted owner, the purchase pnce or the value of encumbrance may, notwithstanding anything contamed m any law, but subject to any general direction that the Government may g1ve, be deposited for and on behalf of the person with such authority or bank as may be prescribed. (9) Where before any court or authority any suit or proceeding is pcndmg wh1ch directly or md1rectly affects or is !tkely to affect the right of any per~on to recetve the whole or part of the purchase price or the amount of encumbrance or maintenance or alimony payable under this Act the court or authority may requ1re the Land Board to place at its d1sposal the.: amount so payable and thereupon the ~arne shall be dis- posed of in accordance with the orders of the court or authority. \/