Section 16:
Certain powers of the Central Government or Cement Corporation.
(1) The Central
Government or the Cement Corporation, 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 Cement Corporation and realised after
the appointed day, notwithstanding that the realisation pertains to a period prior to the appointed day.
(2) The Central Government or the Cement Corporation, as the ease 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 Cement Corporation.
(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