(2) No person who owns any vacant land shall, on or after the appointed day, alienate such land by way of sale, gift, exchange, usufructuary mortgage, lease or otherwise, or effect a partition or create a trust of such land; and any alienation made, or partition effected, or trust created in contravention of this section shall be null and void:
Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to the alienation by any person of any one plot of vacant land owned by him not exceeding five hundred square metres in extent and not forming part Prohibition of alienation etc.
SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY 9 of a compact block or to the effecting of a partition or creation of a trust of any such plot.
(2) The provisions of sub-section (1) shall apply to any sale, partition or creation of trust, of vacant land of any person in execution of a decree or order of a civil court or any award or order of any other competent authority.
4. Nothwithstanding anything contained in the Registration Act, 1908— 1
(a) no document relating to alienation of a vacant land or to partition or creation of a trust of such land shall be registered on or after the appointed day by any registering officer appointed under the said Act unless the person presenting the document furnishes a declaration by the transferor in the prescribed form, which shall be subject to verification in the prescribed manner—
(i) that the plot of vacant land owned by him and intended to be alienated or partitioned, or, as the case may be, in respect of which a trust is intended to be created does not exceed five hundred square metres in extent;
(ii) that such vacant land does not form part of a compact block; and (Hi) that no other plot of vacant land or no plot of vacant land, other than a plot of vacant land to which the provisions of this Regulation do not apply under section 3, section 5 or section 6, owned by him has baen alienated or partitioned on or after the appointed day, or, that no trust has been created in respect of such plot on or after the appointed day;
(b) a document relating to alienation or partition of any vacant land or the creation of any trust for any vacant land registered on or after the appointed day, shall, for the purposes of section 3, take effect and operate only from the date of such registration.
Hestrictions on registration of documents.
16 of ISK18.