Government Grants Act, 1895

This 1895 Act clarifies that grants of land or property made by the Government are not governed by the ordinary rules of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, and instead take effect exactly according to their own stated terms.

Section 2 is the key exclusion: nothing in the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 applies, or is ever deemed to have applied, to any grant or other transfer of land (or any interest in land) made by or on behalf of the Government to any person -- such grants are to be interpreted as if the Transfer of Property Act had never been enacted.

Section 3 then establishes what governs instead: all the provisions, restrictions, conditions, and limitations written into a government grant or transfer are valid and take effect exactly as worded, regardless of any contrary rule of law, statute, or other enactment.

This is a very old, short procedural statute (1895) whose practical effect is to give the Government wide latitude to attach binding conditions to land grants that would not necessarily be enforceable under ordinary property law. The extract's footnotes show its territorial application and terminology (e.g., "Crown" to "Government") were updated by later Adaptation Orders, so its administering authority should be read as the current Government of Pakistan.