Andhra Pradesh Excheats and Bona Vacantia Act, 1974

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    "title": "Andhra Pradesh Excheats and Bona Vacantia Act, 1974",
    "short_title": "Andhra Pradesh Excheats and Bona Vacantia Act, 1974",
    "act_number": "(Act 35 of 1974)",
    "act_year": 1974,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Andhra Pradesh",
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    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Andhra Pradesh Excheats and Bona Vacantia Act, 1974",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(i) \"bona vacantia\" includes any property, situated in the State of which there is no full owner, but does not include an escheat on any movable property found in a public place;\n(ii) \" competent authority\" means the chief controlling authority specified in Section 4;\n(iii) \"court\" means any civil court of competent jurisdiction ;\n(iv) \"escheat\" means any property the owner of which dies intestate and and without leaving legal heir;\n(v) \"Government\" means the State Government;\n(vi) \"local officer\" means the officer appointed under Section 5;\n(vii) \"Notification\" means a notification published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette ; and the word \"notified\" shall be construed accordingly;\n(viii) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made by the Government under Act\nChapter 2\nGeneral",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Ownership of property accruing by escheat or lapse or as bona vacantia.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. General superintendence of escheats and bona vacantia.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Local officers.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Powers of disposal of escheat or bona vacantia.",
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            "content": "(a) by the Government irrespective of its value;\n(b) by the competent authority, where its value does not exceed ten thousand rupees;\n(c) by the local officer, where its value does not exceed two thousand rupees;\n(i) to decide whether the claim of Government should be asserted and the property taken into custody;\n(ii) to make equitable disposition of property which devolves by escheat;\n(iii) to take charge of the property to which the claim of the Government has been asserted and to arrange for its care and maintenance during the period when it is in their custody.\nChapter 3\nDeclaration of Property as an Escheat or a Bona Vacantia and its disposal",
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Inquiry relating to escheat or bona vacantia by local officer.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Local Officer to institute a suit for recovery of possession of escheat or bona vacantia when the person in possession resists.",
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        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Local officer to take into custody and to arrange for care and maintenance of property which is not in the possession of any person or its possession is surrendered.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Disposal by local officer of property in certain cases.",
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            "content": "(b) Where the property taken into custody under Section 9 is movable property of the value not exceeding fifty rupees, the local officer shall cause it to be sold by public auction in the manner prescribed, and credit the sale proceeds thereof to the Government.",
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            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Procedure for declaring property to be escheat or bona vacantia.",
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            "content": "(b) Where the court decides that the property taken into custody under Section 9 or any part thereof fully belongs to the claimant, the local officer shall deliver the same to him and where the court decides that it does not belong to the claimant, the court shall declare the property to be an escheat or a bona vacantia , as the case may be.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Publication of declaration.",
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            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Immovable property escheated to Government not to be sold until twelve years after such escheat.",
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            "content": "Chapter 4\nMovable Property found in a public place",
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Disposal of movable property found in a public place.",
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            "content": "Chapter 5\nMiscellaneous",
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            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Delegation of power.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Power to make rules.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Repeal and saving.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 18th January, 2020 [ap710]",
        "Act Number": "(Act 35 of 1974)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1974",
        "Short Title": "Andhra Pradesh Excheats and Bona Vacantia Act, 1974",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Andhra Pradesh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}