Privy Purses (Charged Expenditure) Act, 1968

This is a very short 1968 law dealing with a now-historical arrangement: payments called "privy purses" that the government made to the former Rulers of certain princely states that had acceded to Pakistan. A privy purse was a fixed sum paid to a former ruler, typically as part of the terms under which their state joined Pakistan.

Section 2 is the operative provision. It says that wherever an agreement between the Federal Government and a former Ruler (or his successor) required a privy purse payment, that payment is to be treated as "charged expenditure" on the Federal Consolidated Fund -- meaning it is paid directly out of that fund rather than needing separate budget approval each year. The section also makes this treatment retrospective, deeming such payments to have always been charged and paid in this manner.

A footnote in the extract shows the terms "Federal Government" and "Federal Consolidated Fund" were substituted by a later amendment (the Federal Adaptation of Ordinances, 1975, under a Presidential Order), which is a sign this is an old law that has been amended and should be checked against the current official text before relying on any specific wording.

The Act itself is only two substantive sections long and does not name specific rulers, states, or sums -- it establishes the general legal mechanism rather than the actual payment figures.