Section 22A Prohibited Property: The AP Registration Bar
Section 22A operates at a single desk: the sub-registrar's. When a notified survey number arrives for registration, the system refuses the document, and no drafting skill, no witness, no payment changes that outcome. Andhra Pradesh publishes the notified list on IGRS AP, which means the refusal is knowable months before anyone books an appointment.
What the 22A prohibited property list blocks, and why
Definition
Section 22A of the Registration Act obliges sub-registrars to refuse documents dealing with notified categories of land. Andhra Pradesh's notified survey numbers, spanning government land, assigned grants, endowment and wakf holdings, and court-attached parcels, are published as a searchable list on IGRS AP.
Each category encodes a different public claim on the land. Government parcels belong to the state's own inventory. Assigned grants carry the welfare condition they were given under, and AP has legislated on assigned-land rights more than once, so a specific parcel's present position needs checking against current law rather than folklore. Endowment and wakf lands answer to institutional trustees, and attachments freeze parcels for courts.
The bar's design is deliberately blunt. It does not weigh intentions or price; it matches survey numbers. Which is why the buyer's counter-move is equally blunt: match the survey number yourself, on the same list, before any money moves.
Precision matters at the subdivision level. Notifications sometimes touch a fraction of a survey, leaving siblings free, so the lookup runs on the exact subdivision you are buying, cross-read with the FMB.
Running the 22A prohibited property lookup on IGRS AP
Free, anonymous, and worth repeating close to the registration date.
List lookup
The notified categories, decoded
What each listing type tells you about the land's legal position.
| Listing type | Public claim behind it | Practical consequence |
|---|---|---|
| Government land | State inventory | No private registration, ever |
| Assigned grant | Welfare condition on transfer | Position depends on current law; verify |
| Endowment holding | Temple / institutional trust | Alienation needs sanction rarely given |
| Wakf property | Wakf Board oversight | Board processes govern; exceptional |
| Court attachment | Judicial freeze | Waits on the case, not the parties |
| Clerical listing | Error in notification | Delisting via RDO / Collector with proof |
Common 22A check issues, and the fix
The list produces four situations worth understanding in advance.
Why the 22A prohibited property lookup opens the file
Order the checks by what each can kill.
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