A person sustaining any loss or damage by any rectification of a certificate of title under this Act or by the bringing of land under this Act, if the rectification or issue by which the loss or damage was occasioned was in consequence of or justified by any inaccuracy in any survey or plan or description of land used upon any sale of land by the Government or by the Uganda Land Commission or a district land board, then notwithstanding sections 162 and 167, but without prejudice to the rights, if any, of that person under those sections, may, in the first instance and without any obligation to pursue the remedies provided by those sections, bring an action against the Government for recovery of damages.