ANDHRA PRADESH TELANGANA AREA TENANCY AND AGRICULTURAL LANDS ACT, 1950

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S.1 Short title, extent and commencement

S.2 Definitions

S.3 Specification of local areas

S.4 Determination of area of Family Holdings

S.5 Persons deemed to be tenants

S.6 General prohibition of leases after three years from commencement of Act

S.7 Special cases in which leases are permitted

S.8 Period of leases made within 3 years of commencement of Act

S.9 Copy of lease to be filed before a Tahsildar

S.10 Summary ejectment of a person in possession of land under void lease

S.11 Maximum rent

S.12 Rent

S.13 Liability to payment

S.14 Prohibition for receiving rent in terms of labour

S.15 Refund of rent recovered in contravention of the provisions of the Act and other penalties

S.16 Abolition of all cesses, etc.

S.17 Enquiries as regards reasonable rent

S.18 Suspensions or remissions of rent

S.19 Termination of tenancy

S.20 Bar to eviction from dwelling house

S.21 Tenant to be given first option of purchasing site on which he has built a dwelling house

S.22 Dwelling houses of agricultural labourers and artisans

S.23 Tenants rights to trees planted by him

S.24 Rights to produce of naturally growing trees

S.25 Tenants responsible for maintenance of boundary marks

S.26 Repairs of protective bunds

S.26(A) Betterment Contribution

S.27 Relief against termination of tenancy in certain cases

S.28 Relief against termination of tenancy for non-payment of rent

S.29 Receipts for rent

S.30 Sub-division, sub-letting and assignment prohibited

S.31 Bar to attachment or sale by process of Court

S.32 Procedure of taking possession

S.33 Act not to affect rights or privileges of tenant under any other law

S.34 Protected tenants

S.35 Decision on claims

S.36 Recovery of possession by protected tenant

S.37 Persons not entitled under Section 34 deemed in certain circumstances to be protected tenants

S.37(A) Persons holding lands as tenants at the commencement of the Hyderabad Tenancy and Agricultural Lands (Amendment) Act, 1955 deemed to be protected tenants

S.38 Right of protected tenant to purchase land

S.38(A) Procedure when reasonable price is agreed to between the landholder and pro- tected tenant

S.38(B) Procedure when landholder agrees to relinquish his rights in favour of the protected tenant

S.38(C) Minimum holding in case of sale

S.38(D) Procedure when landholder intends to sell to a protected tenant

S.38(E) Ownership of lands held by protected tenants to stand transferred to them from a notified date

S.39 Right of protected tenants to exchange lands

S.40 Right of protected tenant heritable

S.41 Compensation for improvements made by protected tenant

S.42 Protected tenants right to erect farmhouse

S.43 Right of protected tenant to mortgage, or create charge on, his interest in land as security for loan

S.44 Landholders right to terminate protected tenancy

S.45 Landholder to restore possession if he fails to cultivate within one year

S.46 Application for recovery of possession by tenant

S.47 .

S.48 .

S.48(A) Restriction on permanent alienation or transfer of land acquired by protected tenant

S.49 .

S.50 .

S.50(A) .

S.50(B) Validation of certain alienations and other transfers of agricultural lands

S.51 Power to assume management of land

S.52 Consequences of assumption of management

S.53 Termination of management

S.53(A) Census of land holdings and details of cultivation

S.53(B) Prescription of standards of cultivation and management

S.53(C) Further power to assume for public purpose management of land not efficiently cultivated and managed

S.54(D) Appointment of Village Panchayat or Co-operative Farming Societies as Managers

S.53(E) Order of preference in leasing out the surplus lands

S.53(F) Right of lessee to purchase lands

S.53(G) Power to acquire lands

S.54 Application of this Chapter

S.55 Prohibition of fragmentation

S.56 Prohibition of fragmentation on partition

S.57 Notification of intention to prepare a scheme of consolidation of holdings

S.58 Appointment of Consolidation Officer

S.59 Preparation of a draft scheme

S.60 Payment of compensation

S.61 Consideration of draft scheme by the Collector

S.62 Publication of final scheme and giving effect to it

S.63 Grant of Registered Certificate