Act to override contract, grant, etc

The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything contained in any engagement, contract, grant, order or any law for the time being in force and any provision in any such engagement, contract, grant, order or law, by virtue of which the owner of free-hold is not liable to pay to the Government any land revenue or other tax shall be deemed to have become inoperative, with effect from the 1st day of July 1972.