(1) If the holding of a landowner or the tenancy of a tenant brought under the scheme of consolidation is burdened with any lease, mortgage or other encumbrance, such lease, mortgage or other encumbrance shall be transferred and attached to the holding or tenancy allotted under the scheme or to such part of it as the Consolidation Officer subject to any rules that may be made under section 59, may have determined in preparing the scheme and thereupon the lessee, mortgagee, or other encumbrancer, as the case may be, shall cease to have any right in or against the land from which the lease, mortgage or other encumbrance has been transferred.
(2) If the holding or tenancy to which a lease, mortgage or other encumbrance is transferred under sub-section (1) is of less market value than the original holding from which it is transferred, the lessee, mortgagee or other encumbrancer, as the case may be, shall, subject to the provision of section 45 be entitled to the payment of such compensation by the owner of THE HIMACHAL PRADESH HOLDINGS (CONSOLIDATION AND PREVENTION OF 17 FRAGMENTATION) ACT, 1971 the holding, or as the case may be, the tenant as the Consolidation Officer may determine.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 32, the Consolidation Officer shall, if necessary, put any lessee or any mortgagee or other encumbrancer entitled to possession, in possession of the holding or tenancy or part of the holding or tenancy to which his lease, mortgage or other encumbrance has been transferred under sub-section (1).