Mode of advance payment of betterment charges

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, pending the publication of final schedules under section 4, any landowner may, if he so chooses, make an advance payment of betterment charges leviable under this Act in such lump sum as the Government may by notification direct and where a landowner exercises his choice to do so he shall not be liable to pay advance payment of betterment charges under section 5A, and if he has already paid any amount under section 5A, the advance payment payable under this section shall be reduced to that extent. (2) The provisions of sub-sections (3), (4) and (5) of section 5A, shall, as far as may be, apply to the payment made under sub-section (1).