26Assumption of liability.

(1) Where any liability of the Company arising out of any item specified in any category in Part I of the Schedule is not discharged fully by the Commissioner out of the amounts paid to him under this Act, the Commissioner shall intimate in writing to the Central Government the extent of the liability which remains undischarged and that liability shall be assumed by the Central Government.
(2) The Central Government may, by order, direct the existing, or new, Government company in which the undertakings of the Company become vested by virtue of any direction made under sub-section (1) of section 5 or declaration made under sub-section (1) of section 6, to take over the liability assumed by the Central Government under sub-section (1), and on receipt of such direction, it shall be the duty of such existing, or new, Government company to discharge such liability.