Provisions applicable to minors, persons under disability, etc.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding sections of this Chapter, where the tenant is a minor or a person subject to any mental or physical disability or a soldier in service in the Armed Forces of the Union or a seaman, x x x the right of the tenant under section 45 may be exercised,— (i) by the minor within one year from the date on which he attains majority; (ii) by a person subject to physical or mental disability within one year from the date on which such disability ceases to exist; (iii) by a soldier within one year from the date on which he is released from the Armed Forces or is sent to the Reserve; (iv) by a seaman, within one year from the date on which he ceases to be a seaman. (2) The provisions of the preceding sections of this Chapter shall thereupon, mutatis mutandis, be applicable to such land vesting in the State Government.