State Act

The Telangana Prevention of Fragmentation and Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1956.

7. (1) No person shall transfer any fragment in respect of which a notice has been given under sub-section (2) of section 6 except to the owner of a contiguous survey number or recognised sub-division of a survey number: Provided that the holder of such fragment may mortgage or transfer it to the Government or a land mortgage Bank or any other Co-operative Society as security for any loan advanced to him by the Government or such bank or society, as the case may be. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in 7[the Telangana Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1950], no such fragment shall be leased to any person other than a person cultivating any land which is contiguous to the fragment. (3) No such fragment shall be sub-divided or partitioned.