Compensation to Proprietors.

A proprietor or a grantee of land whose rights, title and interest in respect of his lands vest in the Government under section 3, shall be entitled to payment of compensation in respect of the lands which have vested in the Government and have not been regranted to him under section 4, at the rate of twenty times the annual payment (Contribuição Predial) which the proprietor or grantee was liable to make to the erstwhile Portuguese Government/regime in respect thereof immediately before 20th December,1961.