A.P. Domestic, Irrigation and Industrial Water Grid Pipelines (Acquisition of Right of User in Land) Act, 2018

Q: What does Section 1 of A.P. Domestic, Irrigation and Industrial Water Grid Pipelines (Acquisition of Right of User in Land) Act, 2018 say?

Object & Reasons 6 Statement of Objects and Reasons.

Q: What does Section 2 of A.P. Domestic, Irrigation and Industrial Water Grid Pipelines (Acquisition of Right of User in Land) Act, 2018 say?

(a) "Collector" means the Collector of a District; (b) "Competent Authority" means any person or authority authorized by the State Government by notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, to perform the functions of the competent authority under this Act; (c) "Corporation" means anybody corporate established under any State Act or any other law for the time being in force in the State of Andhra Pradesh and includes a Company formed and registered under the Companies Act, 2013 (Central Act No.18

Q: What does Section 5 of A.P. Domestic, Irrigation and Industrial Water Grid Pipelines (Acquisition of Right of User in Land) Act, 2018 say?

(a) to enter upon the survey and take levels of any land specified in the notification; (b) to dig or bore into the sub-soil; (c) to set out the intended line of work; (d) to mark such levels, boundaries and line by placing marks and cutting trenches; (e) to cut down and clear away any part of any standing crop, fence or jungle where otherwise survey cannot be completed and levels taken and the boundaries and line marked; (f) to do all other acts necessary to ascertain whether pipelines can be l

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    "title": "A.P. Domestic, Irrigation and Industrial Water Grid Pipelines (Acquisition of Right of User in Land) Act, 2018",
    "short_title": "A.P. Domestic, Irrigation and Industrial Water Grid Pipelines (Acquisition of Right of User in Land) Act, 2018",
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            "number": "1",
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            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Collector\" means the Collector of a District;\n(b) \"Competent Authority\" means any person or authority authorized by the State Government by notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, to perform the functions of the competent authority under this Act;\n(c) \"Corporation\" means anybody corporate established under any State Act or any other law for the time being in force in the State of Andhra Pradesh and includes a Company formed and registered under the Companies Act, 2013 (Central Act No.18 of 2013);\n(d) \"Government \" means the State Government of Andhra Pradesh;\n(e) \"Land owner\" includes any person, -\n(i) Whose name is recorded as the owner of the land or part thereof, in the records of the authority concerned;\n(ii) who is granted forest rights under the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Reorganization of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 or under any other law for the time being in force;\n(iii) who is entitled to be granted patta rights on the land under any law of the State including assigned lands;\n(iv) who has been declared as such by an order of the Court or authority;\n(f) \"Notification\" means the notification published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette and the word notified shall be construed accordingly;\n(g) \"Person\" includes an individual, un-divided Hindu family, a Trustee, a Company, a Society or an Association of individual whether incorporated or not;\n(h) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(i) \"Water Grid\" means a network of synchronized Water providers and consumers, connected by transmission or transportation and distribution pipelines and operated by one or more control centres.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Publication of Preliminary Notification.",
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            "number": "4",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Power of officers to enter, survey and excavate.",
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            "content": "(a) to enter upon the survey and take levels of any land specified in the notification;\n(b) to dig or bore into the sub-soil;\n(c) to set out the intended line of work;\n(d) to mark such levels, boundaries and line by placing marks and cutting trenches;\n(e) to cut down and clear away any part of any standing crop, fence or jungle where otherwise survey cannot be completed and levels taken and the boundaries and line marked;\n(f) to do all other acts necessary to ascertain whether pipelines can be laid under the land:",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Declaration of acquisition of right of user in the land.",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Laying of pipelines.",
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            "content": "(i) it shall be lawful for any person authorized by the State Government or, as the case may be, the Corporation, and its servants and workmen to enter upon the land and lay pipelines or to do any other thing necessary for laying of pipelines:\n(a) any land which, immediately before the date of the publication of notification under sub-section (1) of Section 3, was used for residential purposes;\n(b) any land on which there stands any permanent structure which was in existence immediately before the said date;\n(c) any land which is appurtenant to a dwelling house; or\n(d) any land at a depth which is less than one metre from the surface; and\n(ii) such land shall be used only for laying the pipelines and for maintaining, examining, repairing, altering or removing any such pipelines or for doing any other thing necessary for any of the aforesaid purposes or for the utilization of such pipelines.",
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        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Power to enter land for inspection etc.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Restrictions regarding the use of land.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) construct any building or any other structure,\n(ii) construct or excavate any tank, well, reservoir or dam;\n(iii) plant any tree on that land.\n(a) constructs any building or any other structure;\n(b) constructs or excavates any well, tank, reservoir or dam;\n(c) plants any tree,",
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            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Compensation.",
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            "content": "(i) the removal of trees or standing crops, if any, on the land while exercising the powers under Sections 5, 7 and 8;\n(ii) the temporary severance of the land under which the pipeline has been laid from other lands belonging to, or in the occupation of, such person;\n(iii) any injury to any other property, whether movable or immovable, or the earnings of such persons caused in any other manner:",
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            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Deposit and payment of compensation.",
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        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Collector and competent authority to have certain powers of civil court.",
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            "content": "(a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath;\n(b) requiring the discovery and production of any document,\n(c) reception of evidence on affidavits;\n(d) requisitioning any public record from any court or office;\n(e) issuing commission for examination of witnesses.",
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            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
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            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Bar of Jurisdiction of Civil Court.",
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            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Penalty.",
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        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Certain offences to be cognizable.",
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            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Power to remove difficulties.",
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        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Power to make rules.",
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            "content": "(a) the places at which and the manner in which the substance of the notification may be published under sub-section (3) of Section 3;\n(b) the time within which and the manner in which the amount of compensation shall be deposited under sub-section (1) of session 11.",
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        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Application of other laws not barred.",
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        "Act Number": "(Act No. 19 of 2018)",
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        "Act Year": "2018",
        "Short Title": "A.P. Domestic, Irrigation and Industrial Water Grid Pipelines (Acquisition of Right of User in Land) Act, 2018",
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        "Location": "Andhra Pradesh"
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    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
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