Section 16:
Certain powers of the Central Government or Government company.
(1) The Central
Government or the Government company, as the case may be, shall be entitled to receive up to the
specified date, to the exclusion of all other persons, any money due to the Company in relation to its
undertakings which have vested in the Central Government, or the Government company, realised after
the appointed day notwithstanding that the realisations pertain to a period prior to the appointed day.
(2) The Central Government or the Government company, as the case may be, may make a claim to
the Commissioner with regard to every payment made by it after the appointed day for discharging any
liability of the Company, in relation to any period prior to the appointed day; and every such claim shall
have priority, in accordance with the priorities attaching, under this Act, to the matter in relation to which
such liability has been discharged by the Central Government or the Government company.
(3) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the liabilities of the Company in respect of any transaction
prior to the appointed day, which have not been discharged on or before the specified date, shall be the
liabilities of the Company.