Section 18. Application for removal from list of estate-holders.

18. An estate-holder competent to contract to whose estate the provisions of Part II do not apply may at any time apply to the [State Government]1 for a declaration that the foregoing provisions of of this part shall cease to apply to him. The 1[State Government] on receipts of such application, may for any reason it may consider sufficient declare that the foregoing provisions of this part shall cease to apply to an estate-holder and publish a notification to that effect in the 2[Official Gazette] in English and in the vernacular. Form the date of the publication of such notification in English the foregoing provisions of this part shall cease to apply to the estate-holder, and his estate shall henceforward be held subject to the personal law that would have been applicable to him had no notification under section 7 been issued, and his name shall be struck off the list maintained under that section.