Andhra Pradesh Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971

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    "title": "Andhra Pradesh Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971",
    "short_title": "Andhra Pradesh Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971",
    "act_number": "(Act No. 26 of 1971)",
    "act_year": 1971,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Andhra Pradesh",
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    "description": "Andhra Pradesh Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971",
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            "content": "Object & Reasons 6\nStatement of Object and Reasons.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Act No. 11 of 1980\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Act No. 1 of 1989\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Act No. 24 of 1989",
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            "title": "Section 5(6).",
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        {
            "number": "6A",
            "title": "Section 6A(1).",
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        {
            "number": "6C",
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            "number": "6D",
            "title": "Section 6D(2).",
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            "content": "Statement of Objects and Reasons - Act No. 9 of 1994\n(i) to issue title deed to the pattadar owners to enable them to use the same for creation of equitable mortgage on their lands;\n(ii) to provide an appeal to the Revenue Divisional Officer against the orders of the Mandal Revenue Officer under sub-section (4) of Section 5-A of the Act.\n(iii) to protect the credit agencies by specifying that any charge not entered in the pass book will not have priority;\n(iv) to provide that the title deeds issued under sub-section (1) of Section 6-A of the said Act and duly certified by the Mandal Revenue Officer or by any authority as prescribed shall be the title deed in respect of the owner pattadar and it shall be the record of right and interest in the land of the person to whom the pass book is issued;\n(v) to make pattadar responsible for getting necessary entries made in respect of transactions regarding the title deed and pass book by the Registering Officer,\n(vi) to recover the loans in default as arrears of land revenue by the Revenue Department; and\n(viii) to confer revision powers on the District Collector against the orders passed by the concerned authority under Sections 3, 5, 5-A or 5-B of the said Act.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Act No. 16 of 2001\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Act No. 20 of 2011\n2.\n3.\n4.\n5.\nStatement of Objects and Reasons - Act No.30 of 2018\n(1) Once, the Registration Officer approves the Registration of the property, the name of the claimant will be mutated provisionally in the electronic data maintained by Revenue Department on real time basis.\n(2) Title enquiry will be conducted by Tahsildar and confirm the provisional mutation within 30 working days from the receipt date of provisional mutation.\n(3) The Tahsildars proceedings shall be communicated to the interest parties as per Section 5(4) of the Andhra Pradesh Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971 and through SMS and e-mail also.\n(4) In case of rejection of provisional mutation, the entire file alongwith connected records will be transferred electronically to Revenue Divisional Officer login i.e., the appellant authority for early disposal.\n(5) Aggrieved party can file appeal before the Revenue Divisional Officer (Appellate Authority) through Mee seva in Form-XIX. Appellate Authority shall dispose of the appeal within 30 working days from the date of filing of appeal.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "[(1) \"Bhudhaar\" means the unique identification number assigned to any parcel of land, as contained in the Record of Rights, in such manner as may be prescribed;\n(1-a) \"Bhudhaar Card\" means a document prepared in such format as may be prescribed describing a parcel or parcels of land as contained in the Record of Rights, and specifying the Bhudhaar Number or Numbers assigned to such parcel or parcels, alongwith the stamp of date and time at which such card has been prepared, and, includes e-Bhudhaar Card and m-Bhudhaar Card;\n(1-b) \"e-Bhudhaar Card\" means a Bhudhaar Card which is generated and maintained in an electronic form;\n(1-c) \"m-Bhudhaar Card\" means a Bhudhaar Card which is generated and maintained in an electronic form and which can be downloaded and used on a mobile device;\n(1-d) \"Permanent Bhudhaar\" means a Bhudhaar Number assigned form a distinct series to indicate that the Geo-referencing of the parcel of land or lands appurtenant to the property has been completed;\n(1-e) \"Temporary Bhudhaar\" means a Bhudhaar Number assigned from a distinct series to indicate that the Geo-referencing of the parcel of land or lands appurtenant to the property has not been completed;]\n[(1-f)] \"Certified copy\" or \"Certified extract\" means a copy of extract, as the case may be, certified in the manner prescribed by Section 76 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (Central Act 1 of 1872);\n[(2) \"Collector\" means the Collector of a district and includes \"Joint Collector\";]\n[(2a) \"Commissioner\" means the Commissioner, Survey Settlements and Land Records;]\n[ [(2aa)] \"Credit agency\" means any Banking Company as defined in the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, the State Bank of India and its subsidiaries, a corresponding new bank, a Regional Rural Bank, a Co-operative Bank or Credit Society by whatever name called, Agricultural Development Bank and includes any other agency or individual the main object of which is to lend money;]\n(3) \"Government\" means the State Government;\n(4) \"Land\" means land which is used or is capable of being used for purposes of agriculture, including horticulture but does not include land used exclusively for non-agricultural purposes;\n[(4a) \"Mandal Revenue Officer\" means the Officer-in-charge of a Revenue Mandal and includes any Officer of the Revenue Department authorised by the Commissioner to perform the functions of the Mandal Revenue Officer under this Act;]\n(5) \"Notification\" means a notification published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette [or the District Gazette] and the word \"notified\" shall be construed accordingly;\n(6) \"Occupant\" means a person in actual possession of land, other than a tenant or a unsufructuary mortgagee;\n[(6a) \"Owner\" means a person who has permanent and heritable rights of possession on the land which can be alienated and includes the holder of a patta issued to him as a landless poor person;]\n[(6b) \"Title deed and pass book\" means the title deed and pass book issued under Section 6-A ;]\n(7) \"Pattadar\" includes every person who holds land directly under the Government under a patta whose name is registered in the land revenue accounts of the Government as pattadar [xxx] and who is liable to pay land revenue;]\n(8) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(9) \"Record of Rights\" means records prepared and maintained under the provisions, or for the purposes of this Act;\n[(10) 'Recording authority' means such officer of the Revenue Department as may be notified by the Collector to be the recording authority for the purposes of this Act or such officer of the Registration Department as may be specified for the purpose of causing provisional mutation in Revenue Records electronically;] .\n[(10a) \"Revenue Divisional Officer\" means the Deputy Collector in-charge of Revenue Division and includes a Sub-Collector or an Assistant Collector]\n(11) \"Tenant\" means:\n(i) a lessee under a tenancy agreement, express or implied; or\n(ii) a person who is or is deemed to be a tenant under any law for the time being in force;\n(12) \"Village\" means any local area which is recognised as a village in the revenue accounts of the Government.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Preparation and updating of record of rights in all lands.",
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            "content": "(a) the names of all persons who are owners, pattadars, mortgagees, occupants or tenants of lands;\n(b) the nature and extent of the respective rights or interest of such persons and the conditions or liabilities if any, attaching thereto;\n(c) the rent, revenue or other amount, if any, payable by, or to any of such persons;\n(d) such other particulars as may be prescribed.\n[3A. Generation and Updation of Bhudhaar.\n[4. Acquisition of rights to be intimated.\n5. [Amendment and updating of Record of Rights] .\n[5A. Regularisation of certain alienations or other transfers of lands.\n[5B. Appeal.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Presumption of correctness of entries in record of rights.",
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            "content": "[6A. Pass Book holder to have entries of alienation etc., recorded in Pass Book:\n[6B. Pass book holder to have entries of alienation etc., recorded in pass book.\n[6C. Recording of grant of loans and encumbrances etc., in the pass book and punishment or contravention thereof.\n[6D. Registering authority to make entries in the Pass Book.\n[6E. Assignment of Bhudhaar to parcels of land.",
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        {
            "number": "6F",
            "title": "6F. Generation of Bhudhaar Card.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Inspection and copies of the Record of Rights.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Bar of Suits.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Revision.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Powers of recording and appellate authority.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) Summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath;\n(b) Requiring the discovery and production of documents, and\n(c) Any other matter which may be prescribed.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "10A",
            "title": "10A. Corrections to be incorporated in village revenue records.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Powers to make rules.",
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            "content": "(a) regulating the manner of preparation, compilation, maintenance and amendment of the record of rights and prescribing the forms in which they are to be compiled or maintained, the places at which and the officer by whom such record of rights have to be maintained and the officer by whom the said records are to be verified and amended;\n(b) the maintenance of other records, registers, accounts, maps and plans to be maintained for the purpose of this Act and the manner and forms in which they shall be prepared and maintained;\n[(bb)] regulating the manner of preparation, issue, maintenance and renewal of [Title deeds and pass books]\n(c) the inspection of the records, registers and documents maintained under this Act and the fees for the grant of copies thereof or extracts therefrom;\n(d) the procedure to be followed in making enquiries and hearing appeals under this Act;\n(e) the manner in which appeals shall be filed and the fees therefor;\n(f) the manner of service of any notice, intimation or other communication to be issued under this Act;\n(g) any other matter that is to be or may be prescribed under this Act.",
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        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Act not to apply to Government Lands.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Repeal and Savings.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 19th March, 2020 [ap212]",
        "Act Number": "(Act No. 26 of 1971)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1971",
        "Short Title": "Andhra Pradesh Rights in Land and Pattadar Pass Books Act, 1971",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Andhra Pradesh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}