Andhra Pradesh Scheduled Areas Land Transfer Regulation, 1959

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    "title": "Andhra Pradesh Scheduled Areas Land Transfer Regulation, 1959",
    "short_title": "Andhra Pradesh Scheduled Areas Land Transfer Regulation, 1959",
    "act_number": "(Regulation No. 1 of 1959)",
    "act_year": 1959,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Andhra Pradesh",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Andhra Pradesh Scheduled Areas Land Transfer Regulation, 1959",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Agency tracts\" means the Areas in the districts of East Godavari, West Godavari, Visakhapatnam Srikakulam, [Adilabad, Warangal, Khammamand Mhaboobnagar] declared from time to time as Scheduled Areas by the President under sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 6 of the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution;\n(b) \"Agent\" means the person designated by the State Government as an \"Agent to the Government\" in the districts of East Godavari, West Godavari, Visakhapatnam, Srikakulam, Adilabad, Warangal, Khammam or Mahaboobnagar] as the case may be;\n(c) \"Agency Divisional Officer\" means the person designated by the State Government as \"Agency Divisional Officer\" for the purposes of this Regulation;\n[(d) \"Immovable property\" includes standing crops, timber and trees, but does not include growing grass.]\n(e) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed in rules made unders this regulation;\n[(f) \"Scheduled Tribe\" means any tribe or tribal community or part of or group within any tribe or tribal community and specified as such in relation to the State of Andhra Pradesh by a Public notification by the President under clause (1) of Article 342 of the Constitution'.]\n(g) \"Transfer\" means mortgage with or without possession lease, sale, gift, exchange or any other dealing with immovable property, not being a testamentary disposition and includes a charge on such property or a contract relating to such property in respect of such mortgage, lease, sale, gift, exchange or other dealing.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Transfer of immovable property by a member of a Schedule Tribe.",
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            "content": "(b) Until the contrary is proved, any immovable property situated in the Agency tracts and in the possession of a person who is not a member of Scheduled Tribe, shall be presumed to have been acquired by person or his predecessor in possession through a transfer made to him by a member of a Scheduled Tribe.\n(c) Where a person intending to sell his land is not able to effect such sale, by reason of the fact that no member of a Scheduled Tribe is willing to purchase the land or is willing to purchase the land on the terms offered by such person, then such person may apply to the Agent, the Agency Divisional Officer or any other prescribed officer for the acquisition of such land by the State Government, and the Agent. Agency Divisional Officer or the prescribed officer, as the case may be, may by order, take over such land on payment of compensation in accordance with the principles specified in Section 10 of the Andhra Pradesh Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1961 (Act X of 1961), and such land shall thereupon vest in the State government free from all encumbrances and shall be disposed of in favour of members of the Scheduled Tribes or a society registered or deemed to be registered under the Andhra Pradesh Cooperative Societies Act, 1964 (Act 7 of 1964) composed solely of members of the Scheduled Tribes or in such other manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed]\n(b) If the transfer or his heirs are not willing to take back the property or where their whereabouts are not known, the Agent, the Agency Divisional Officer or prescribed officer, as the case may be, may order the assignment or sale of the property to any other member of a Scheduled Tribe [or a society registered or deemed to be registered under any law relating to Co-operative Societies for the time being in force in the State] composed solely of members of the Scheduled Tribes, or otherwise dispose of it, as if it was a property at the disposal of State Government.\n(i) if the decree or order was passed by the Agent, to the State Government;\n(ii) if the decree or order was passed by the Agency Divisional Officer, to the Agent; and\n(iii) if the decree or order was passed by any other officer, to the Agency Divisional Officer or Agent, as may be prescribed.\n(b) The appellate authority may entertain an appeal on sufficient cause being shown after the expiry of the time limit prescribed therefor.\n[3A. Special provision in respect of mortgages without possession.\n(1) any person, whether or not such person is member of a Schedule Tribe, may, subject to the provisions of Clause (2) mortgage without possession, any immovable property situated in the Agency tracts, to any Co-operative Society including a land mortgage bank, or to any [XXX] bank or other financial institution approved by the State Government;]\n(2) In respect of every mortgage which was executed at any time either before or after the date of commencement of the Andhra Pradesh Scheduled Areas Land Transfer (Amendment) Regulation, 1971, in the event of the immovable property so mortgaged or any part thereof being brought to sale in default of payment of the mortgage money or the interest thereof or for any other purpose, the said property shall be sold only to a member of a scheduled Tribe or a society registered or deemed to be registered under the Andhra Pradesh Co-operative Societies Act, 1954 (Act 7 of 1954) which is composed solely of members of the Scheduled Tribes.\n(a) the individual members of the Scheduled Tribes;\n(b) one or more Co-operative societies which does not have among its members any person who is not a member of a Scheduled Tribe;\n(c) the Government\n[3B. Restriction on registration of documents.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Suits against a member of a Scheduled Tribe to be instituted in the Agency Courts.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Attachment and sale of immovable property.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Revision.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[6A. Penalty.\n(a) acquires any immovable property in convention of the provisions of this Regulation ; or\n(b) continues in possession of such property after a decree,for ejectment is passed;",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6B",
            "title": "6B. Offences under Regulation to be cognizable.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Provisions of Limitation Act to apply to proceedings under this Regulation.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Power to make rules.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Repeal.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Saving.",
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            "content": "(a) any transfer made or sale effected in execution of a decree of before the commencement of the Agency Tracts Interest and Land Transfer Act, 1917 (Madras Act 1 of 1917); or\n(b) any transfer made or sale effected in execution of a decree after the commencement of the said Act and before the commencement of this Regulation, if such transfer or sale was valid under the provisions of the said Act.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 30th November, 2019 [ap681]",
        "Act Number": "(Regulation No. 1 of 1959)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1959",
        "Short Title": "Andhra Pradesh Scheduled Areas Land Transfer Regulation, 1959",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Andhra Pradesh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}