Section 4, The Transfer of Defence Lands Ordinance, 1961

Notwithstanding anything in the provisions of section 3,any estate or interest (including any right, easement, restrictive covenant and rights in relation to machinery, plant, apparatus and things) held or enjoyed by any person in or in respect of any part of the scheduled Defence lands immediately before the vesting of such lands in the Government in so far as such estate or interest was granted or knowingly suffered by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the Secretary of State for Air or the Secretary of State for War before such vesting or was expressly reserved by any instrument to which the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the Secretary of State for Air or the Secretary of State for War were a party or out of any conveyance or other instrument under which the land was acquired by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty the Secretary of State for Air or the Secretary of State for War shall not be extinguished or affected by such vesting but shall subsist and continue and may be held or enjoyed to the same extent that such estate or interest would have subsisted and continued, and might have been held or enjoyed, had this Ordinance not been passed. 36 37 Short title and commencement Interpretation. Transfer to and vesting of scheduled Defence lands in the Government subject to reservations. Saving for certain rights enjoyed in scheduled Defence lands immediately before vesting in the Government. No. 8 Transfer of Defence Lands 1961No. 8 Transfer of Defence Lands 196138