Section 16(2) in Burn Company and Indian Standard Wagon Company (Nationalisation) Act, 1976
(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 that Government after the appointed day for discharging any liability of either of the two companies, not being any liability specified in sub-section (2) of section 5, 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.
