(1) This Act shall apply to any cash grant specified in the Schedule other than those mentioned in sub-section (2).
(2) Nothing contained in this Act shall apply to any such cash grant given in the name, or for the support, of any religious or charitable institution or given to any person for the performance of any service or charity, such service or charity being of a public nature connected with any religious or charitable institution :
Provided that the payment of cash grant mentioned in this sub-section shall be made to the institution or to the person concerned only so long as the institution exists.
(3) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that the provisions of section 5 of the Hyderabad Atiyat Enquiries Act, 1952 (Hyderabad Act X of 1952), as in force in the Hyderabad Area, shall apply to the cash grants continued by this Act as they apply to Atiyat grants under that Act.
(4) The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, alter, add to or omit any of the entries in the Schedule.