Compensation to proprietors.

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