(!) At any time after the expiry of the period allowed under clause ( 1) of section 18 for applying for resumption of land, or, where any appeal hac; been preferred from the orders of the Land Tribunal under sectiOn 22, after the disposal of the appeal, the Government may, by notifkation m the Gazette, declare that the nght, title and interest of the landowners and intermediaries in respect of holdmgs, which have not been purchased by cultivating tenants, shall vest m the cultivatmg tenants free from all encumbrances;
and different notifications may be 1ssued for different areas m the State:
Provided that no declaration under this sub-section shall apply to a holding where the landowner or an intermediary 1s a small holder and the cult!vatmg tenant was entitled to fixity of tenure Immediately before the 2 I st January, 1961, under any law then in force.
(2) Upon the issue of a notification under sub-sectian (I), the right, title and interest of the landowners and intermediaries in respect of holdmgs to which the declaration applies shall vest in the cultivating tenants of such holdings free from all encumbrances, and the provisiOns of sectwns 55 to 64 shall, as far as may be, apply in regard to the pur chase price payable by the cultivatmg tenants, the distnbution of the purchase pnce among the landowners and the intermediaries, the pay ment or recovery of purchase price and the discharge of encumbrances, as if the cultivating tenants had applied for the purchase of the nght, title and interest of the landowners and mtermedianes:
Provided that where in respect of a holding the landowner or .intermediary is a religious, chan table or educational institution of a public nature and such institutiOn had, before the issue of such notifica tiOn, expressed Its choice for annuity instead of purchase price, the Government shall pay to such institutiOn the annuity that would have been payable to the mstitut10n under sectiOn 6 7 if its nght, title and interest had vested in the Government, and the Government shall be entitled to the pU!chase pnce that would have been payable to the institution.