16. Provision to meet cases of undivided Hindu family, Marumakkathayam tarwad, etc .-

(1) The Government shall not, except under section 17, order the court to take the property of any undivided Hindu family, Marumakkathayam tarwad, Aliyasantana family or Nambudiri family under its superintendence, unless all the coparceners, members of the tarwad or members of the family, as the case may be, are, or are declared to be, disqualified under section 8. ( 2) When two or more proprietors are co-sharers, otherwise than as coparceners in an undivided Hindu family or as members of a Marumakkathayam tarwad, Aliyasantana family or Nambudiri family, as the case may be, and one of such co-sharers is, or is declared to be, disqualified under section 8, the Government may order the court to institute a suit for partition on behalf of the disqualified proprietor and to take under its superintendence the property allotted to such proprietor in the partition.