{"act":{"id":"assam-apartments-construction-transfer-ownership-act-2006","short_title":"The Assam Apartments (Construction and Transfer of Ownership) Act, 2006","long_title":null,"act_number":"21","act_year":2007,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Assam","unit":"section","section_count":40,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/99ede651-f3a5-482e-ada9-4bca24f3f97c.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-apartments-construction-transfer-ownership-act-2006/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"5","heading":null,"text":"(1) An apartment together with its undivided interest on the common area and facilities, shall constitute heritable and transferable immovable property within the meaning of the relevant law for the time being in force. Provided that no apartment and the percentage of undivided interest in the common area and facilities of apartment shall be partitioned or sub-divided for any purpose whatsoever unless the property is withdrawn from the provisions of this Act under section 14. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, or in any other law for the time being in force, but subject to the provisions of section 14 of this Act, any person shall be the owner of the apartment, by, - (a) purchase through a registered sale deed duly registered under section 17 of Registration Act, 1908. (b) taking lease for a period of not less than thirty years or more of an apartment comprised in a property, by a registered deed of lease registered under Section 17 of the Registration Act, 1908. Central Act, 16 of 1908. Central Act, 16 of 1908. Benamidar of an apartment to be deemed to be the real owner thereof Common areas and facilities.","html":"<p>(1) An apartment together with its undivided interest on the common area and facilities, shall constitute heritable and transferable immovable property within the meaning of the relevant law for the time being in force. Provided that no apartment and the percentage of undivided interest in the common area and facilities of apartment shall be partitioned or sub-divided for any purpose whatsoever unless the property is withdrawn from the provisions of this Act under section <a href=\"/assam-apartments-construction-transfer-ownership-act-2006/section/14/\">14</a>. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, or in any other law for the time being in force, but subject to the provisions of section <a href=\"/assam-apartments-construction-transfer-ownership-act-2006/section/14/\">14</a> of this Act, any person shall be the owner of the apartment, by, - (a) purchase through a registered sale deed duly registered under section <a href=\"/registration-act-1908-puducherry/section/17/\">17</a> of Registration Act, 1908. (b) taking lease for a period of not less than thirty years or more of an apartment comprised in a property, by a registered deed of lease registered under Section <a href=\"/registration-act-1908-puducherry/section/17/\">17</a> of the Registration Act, 1908. Central Act, 16 of 1908. Central Act, 16 of 1908. Benamidar of an apartment to be deemed to be the real owner thereof Common areas and facilities.</p>","words":198,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-apartments-construction-transfer-ownership-act-2006/section/5/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/99ede651-f3a5-482e-ada9-4bca24f3f97c.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/aaf7dd60-3eef-4fec-8c37-2b56c0bdbb4a/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}