Section 3 in Andhra Pradesh Assigned Lands (Prohibition of Transfers) Act, 1977
3. Prohibition of transfer of assigned lands:-
(1)Where before or after the commencement of this Act any land has been assigned by the Government to a landless poor person for purpose of cultivation or as a house-site then, notwithstanding to the contrary in any other law for the time being in force or in the deed to transfer or other document relating to such land, it shall not be transferred and shall be deemed never to have been transferred, and accordingly no right or title in such assigned land shall vest in any person acquiring the land by such transfer.(2)No landless poor person shall transfer any assigned land, and no person shall acquire any assigned land, either by purchase, gift, lease, mortgage, exchange or otherwise.(2A)[ No assignee shall transfer any assigned house site, and no person shall acquire any assigned house site, either by purchase, gift, lease, mortgage, exchange or otherwise, till completion of the period of 20 years from the date of assignment.(2B)Where the assigned House site was alienated by the assignee as on the date of commencement of this Act, such house site shall be regularized in favour of the alienee as a one-time measure.(2C)The eligible family shall be assigned house site only once in life time.] [Inserted by Act No. 11 of 2019.](3)Any transfer or acquisition made in contravention of the provision of sub-section (1) of sub-section (2) [or subsection (2-A)] [Inserted by Act No. 11 of 2019.] shall be deemed to be null and void.(4)The Provisions of this section shall apply to any transaction of the nature referred to in sub-section (2) in execution of a decree or order of a Civil Court or of any award or order of any other authority.(5)Nothing in this section shall apply to an assigned land which was purchased by a landless poor person in good faith and for valuable consideration from the original assignee or his transferee prior to the commencement of this Act and which is in the possession of such person for purposes of cultivation or as a house-site on the date of such commencement.
