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8. Here, reference to provisions of Grants Act is called for & I find it proper to reproduce paras 78 & 79 form Express Newspapers Pvt. Ltd. v. Union of India which aptly consider it as under:

78. It is common ground that the perpetual lease was a Government grant governed by the Crown Grants Act, 1895, now known as the Government Grants Act. The Act is an explanatory or declaratory Act. Doubts having arisen as to the extent and operation of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 and as to the power of the Government to impose limitations and restrictions upon grants and other transfers of land made by it or under its authority, the Act was passed to remove such doubts as is clear from the long title and the preamble. The Act contains two sections and provides by Section 2 for the exclusion of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 and, by Section 3 for the' exclusion of any rule of law, statute or enactment of the Legislature to the contrary. Sections 2 and 3 read as follows: