When any real property has been sold for nonpayment of taxes and public sewer system user fees and has been bid in the name of the Government of the Virgin Islands and it is afterwards discovered that, for any reason such sale was irregular and that the owner of said property has been improperly deprived of his property the Lieutenant Governor shall have authority to cancel said sale and where necessary to issue a certificate of redemption which shall act as a reconveyance of the property to the owner or, his heirs or assigns, as the case may be, and the property shall remain subject to all liens and legal claims against it to the same extent and in the same manner as though said property had not been sold for taxes and public sewer system user fees, and the recorder of deeds shall record the certificate of redemption without the payment of any fee for such service.