Andhra Pradesh Forest Act, 1967

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    "slug": "andhra-pradesh-forest-act-1967-1967",
    "title": "Andhra Pradesh Forest Act, 1967",
    "short_title": "Andhra Pradesh Forest Act, 1967",
    "act_number": "(Act No. 1 of 1967)",
    "act_year": 1967,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Andhra Pradesh",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Andhra Pradesh Forest Act, 1967",
    "preamble": "",
    "section_label": "Section",
    "sections": [
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"cattle\" includes cows oxen, elephants, camels, buffaloes, horses, mules, asses, pigs, sheep, goats and such other kind of animals as the Government may, by notification, specify;\n(b) \"Court\" means the principal civil court of original jurisdiction;\n(c) \"Divisional Forest Officer\" means the forest officer in independent charge of a forest division;\n(d) \"forest division\" means such area as may be declared, by notification, by the Government or by such authority as may be empowered by the Government in this behalf to be a forest division for the purposes of this Act;\n(e) \"forest offence\" means an offence punishable under this Act or any rule made thereunder;\n(f) \"forest officer\" means any person appointed by the Government or by any officer empowered by the Government in this behalf:\n(i) to be the Chief Conservator, Deputy Chief Conservator, Conservator, Deputy Conservator, Assistant Conservator, Divisional Forest Officer, Ranger, Deputy Ranger, Forester, Forest Guard, Forest Watcher, Thanadar, Checking Officer or Plantation Watcher;\n(ii) to perform any function of a forest officer under this Act or any rule or order made thereunder; but does not include a Forest Settlement Officer appointed under clause (c) of sub-section (1) of Section 4;\n(g) \"forest produce\" includes -\n(1) The following whether found in, or brought from a forest or not, that is to say timber, bamboos, charcoal, rubber, cacutchour, catechu, wood oil, resin, natural varnish, bark, lac, mahua flowers, mahua seeds, myrobalans, tunki leaves, rousa grass, rauwolfia serpentina, adda leaves;\n(2) the following when found in, or brought from a forest, that is to say\n(i) trees, such leaves, flowers and fruits as may be prescribed and all other parts or produce not herein before mentioned of trees;\n(ii) plants not being trees (including grass, creepers, reeds and moss) and all parts or produce of such plants;\n(iii) wild animals, wild birds, skins, tusks, horns, bones, silk cocoons, honey, wax, and all other parts or produce of animals and birds;\n(iv) peat, surface soil, rock and minerals (including lime stone and laterite) mineral oil and all products of mines or quarries; and\n(3) such other produce as may be prescribed;\n(h) \"Government\" means the State Government;\n(i) \"magistrate\" means a magistrate of the first class or second class having jurisdiction and includes a magistrate of the third class specially empowered by the Government in this behalf to try forest offences;\n(j) \"notification\" means a notification published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette:\n(k) \"owner in relation to a forest\" includes a mortgagee with possession, lessee or other person having right to the possession and enjoyment of the forest;\n(l) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(m) \"red sanders wood\" means the wood derived out of any part of the tree known by its botanical name as Pterocarpus santalinus and includes chips, dust or powder of such wood;\n(n) \"river\" includes a stream, canal, backwater, creek and other channel, natural or artificial;\n(o) \"sandalwood\" means the wood derived out of any part of the tree known by its botanical name as Santalum album and includes chips, dust or powder of such wood;\n(p) \"teakwood\" means the wood derived out of any part of the tree known by its botanical name as Tectona grandis;\n(q) \"timber\" includes trees fallen or felled, and all wood, cut up or sawn;\n(r) \"tree\" includes bamboos, stems, brush wood and canes.\nChapter 2\nReserved Forests",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Power to reserve forest.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Notification by Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) specifying, as nearly as possible, the situation and limits of such land;\n(b) declaring that it is proposed to constitute such land as a reserved forest;\n(c) appointing a Forest Settlement Officer to consider the objections, if any, against the declaration under clause (b) and to enquire into and determine the existence, nature and extent of any rights claimed by, or alleged to exist in favour of, any person in or over any land comprised within such limits, or to any forest produce of such land, and to deal with the same as provided in this Chapter.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Suits barred.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Proclamation by Forest Settlement Officer.",
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            "content": "(a) specifying, as nearly as possible, the situation and limits of the land proposed to be included within the reserved forest;\n(b) setting forth the substance of the provisions of Section 7;\n(c) explaining the consequences which, as hereinafter provided, will ensue on the reservation of such forest; and\n(d) fixing a period of not less than six months and not more than one year from the date of publishing such proclamation at the headquarters of the taluk, and calling for objections, if any, within the period so fixed from any person interested against the declaration under clause (b) of sub section (1) of Section 4, and requiring every person claiming any right in such land either to present to the said officer, within the period so fixed, a written statement specifying , or to appear before him within the said period and state, the nature of such rights, and in either case to produce all documents in support thereof.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Bar of accrual of forest rights and prohibition of clearings.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) no right shall be acquired by any person in or over the land included in the notification under Section 4 except by succession or under a grant or contract in writing made or entered into by or on behalf of the Government or any person in whom such right was vested before the publication of the notification under Section 4.\n(b) no new house shall be built or plantation formed, no fresh clearing for cultivation or for any other purpose shall be made, on such land and no trees shall be cut from such land for the purpose of trade or manufacture:\n(c) no person shall set fire or kindle or leave burning any fire in such manner as to endanger or damage such land or forest produce.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Enquiry by Forest Settlement Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Powers of Forest Settlement Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) power to enter by himself or to authorise any officer to enter upon any land and to survey, demarcate and make a map of the land; and\n(b) the powers conferred on a civil court by the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, for summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath and requiring the production of any document or other article.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Claims to Certain rights.",
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            "content": "(a) a right of way;\n(b) a right to water course, or to use of water;\n(c) a right of pasture; or\n(d) a right to forest produce; the Forest Settlement Officer shall, after considering the particulars of such claim, and the objections of the forest officer, if any, pass an order, admitting or rejecting the same wholly or in part after recording the reasons therefor.\n(i) accept the voluntary surrender of the right by the claimant or determine the amount of compensation payable for the surrender of the right of the claimant, as the case may be; or\n(ii) direct the exclusion of the land from the limits of the proposed forest; or\n(iii) acquire such land in the manner provided by the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (hereafter in this sub section referred to as the said Act).\n(b) For the purpose of acquiring such land:\n(i) the acquisition shall be deemed to be for a public purpose; and the notification under Section 4 shall be deemed to be a notification under sub section (1) of Section 4 of the said Act;\n(ii) the Forest Settlement Officer shall be deemed to be a Collector under the said Act, and the claimant shall be deemed to be a person interested and appearing before him in pursuance of a notice given under Section 9 of the said Act;\n(iii) the provisions of Section 5 A, 6,7 and 8 of the said Act shall not be applicable; and\n(iv) the Forest Settlement Officer with the consent of the claimant, or the court as defined in the said Act with the consent of the claimant and of the Government may, instead of money compensation, award compensation by the grant of any other land in exchange, by the grant of any right in or over land or partly by the grant of any land any right therein and partly by the payment of money.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Claims to rights of way, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 10
        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Compensation for rights.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Appeals from the orders of Forest Settlement Officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Appointment of pleader.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 13
        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Notification declaring Forest reserved.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the period fixed under section 6 for preferring of an objection or a claim had elapsed, and every objection or claim made under that section was disposed of by the Forest Settlement Officer ; and\n(b) if any such claim was made, the period limited by section 13 for preferring an appeal from the order passed on such claim had elapsed, and every appeal presented within such period was disposed of by the appellate authority ; and\n(c) all proceedings mentioned in section 10 were taken and all lands, if any, to be included in the proposed forest, which the Forest Settlement Officer had, under section 10, elected to acquire under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, had become vested in the Government under Section 16 of that Act; the Government may publish a notification specifying definitely according to boundary marks erected or otherwise, the limits of the forest which it is intended to reserve and declaring the same to be reserved from a date to be fixed by such notification and from the date so fixed, such forest shall be deemed to be a reserved forest.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 14
        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Extinction of rights not claimed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 15
        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. No right acquired over reserved forest except as herein provided.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "18. Rights continued under section 11 not to be alienated without sanction.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Power to stop ways and water courses in reserved forests.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 18
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Penalties for trespass of damage in reserved forest and acts prohibited in such forests.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) contravenes the provisions of clause (b) of sub section (1) of section 7 :\n(b) sets fire to a forest notified to be reserved under section 4 or kindles in such forest any fire or leaves any fire burning in such manner as to endanger such forest ;\n(c) in a reserved forest -\n(i) kindles, keeps or carries any fire, except at such season and subject to such conditions as the Divisional Forest Officer may, from time to time, specify in this behalf ;\n(ii) trespasses, pastures cattle or allows cattle to trespass;\n(iii) causes any damage, either wilfully or negligently in felling or cutting any tree or dragging any timber ;\n(iv) fells, girdles, lops, taps or burns any tree or strips off the bark or leaves from, or otherwise damages the same ;\n(v) quarries stones, burns lime or charcoal ;\n(vi) collects or subjects to any manufacturing process, any forest produce ;\n(vii) clears or breaks up or ploughs any land for cultivation or for any other purpose ;\n(viii) hunts, shoots, fishes, poisons water or sets traps or snares ;\n(ix) damages, alters or removes any wall, ditch embankment, fence, hedge, or railing ; or\n(x) removes any forest produce ;\n(d) abets any of the acts specified in clauses (a), (b) and (c), shall, in addition to such compensation for damages caused to the forest as the court may direct to be paid, be punishable\n(i) in every case where any of the acts aforesaid relates to sandalwood or red sanderswood with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three months but which shall not exceed one year and with fine which shall not exceed ten thousand rupees ;\n(ii) in any other case, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees or with both.\n(a) any act done in accordance with any rule made under this Act or with the permission in writing of the Divisional Forest Officer or of an officer authorised by him to grant such permission ; or\n(b) the exercise of any right continued under sub section (3) or sub section (4) of section 11 or created by a grant or contract in the manner described in section 17.\n(i) a forest officer not below the rank of a Ranger;\n(ii) a police officer not below the rank of a Sub Inspector ; or\n(iii) a revenue officer not below the rank of a Deputy Tahsildar ; may evict the person from the forest or the land, pertaining to which the contravention has taken place and remove any building or other construction or anything grown or deposited on it :",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Suspension of rights in reserved forests.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Persons bound to assist forest officer and police officer.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to extinguish any such fire of which he has knowledge or information ;\n(b) to prevent any such fire from spreading and shall assist any forest officer or police officer demanding his aid\n(ii) in preventing the commission in such forest of any forest offence ; and\n(ii) when there is reason to believe that any such offence has been committed in such forest, in discovering and arresting the offender.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Power to declare reserved forest as no longer reserved.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter 3\nProtected Forests",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Protected forests.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Power to close forest against pasture.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Power to issue notification reserving trees, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) declare any trees or class of trees in a protected forest to be reserved from a date fixed by the notification ;\n(b) prohibit, from a date fixed as aforesaid the quarrying of stone, or the burning of lime or charcoal or the collection or subjection to any manufacturing process or removal of, any forest produce in any such forest and the breaking up or clearing for cultivation, for building, for herding cattle or for any other purpose, of any such forest.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Power to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) regulate the occupation, clearing, ploughing or breaking up of land for cultivation or other purposes ;\n(b) regulate or prohibit the kindling of fire and provide for the precautions to be taken to prevent and spreading of fire ;\n(c) regulate the cutting, sawing, conversion and removal of trees and timber and the collection and removal of natural produce ;\n(d) regulate the quarrying of stone, the boiling of catechu or the buring of lime or charcoal ;\n(e) regulate or prohibit the cutting of grass or the pasturing of cattle, and regulate the payments, if any to be made for such cutting or pasturing ;\n(f) regulate or prohibit hunting, shooting, fishing poisoning of water and setting traps or snares ;\n(g) regulate the sale or free grant of timber or other natural produce ;\n(h) specify the fees, royalties, or other payments for such timber or other natural produce and the manner in which such fees, royalties or other payments shall be levied.\n(i) in every case where such contravention relates to sandalwood or red sanders wood, with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three months but which shall not exceed one year and with fine which shall not exceed ten thousand rupees ;\n(ii) in any other case, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees or with both.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Power to declare protected forest to cease to be protected forest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter 3A\nPreservation of Private Forests",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "28A",
            "title": "28A. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) \"forest\" includes waste or communal land containing tree growth and shrubs, pasture land and any other class of land declared, by the Government in this behalf by notification in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, to be forest;\n(b) \"owner\" in relation to a forest includes a mortgagee, lessee other person having right to possession and enjoyment of the forest ;\n(c) \"person\" includes a Hindu undivided family.\n[(d) \"District Collector\" means the Collector of the District concerned and includes any officer appointed by the State Government by a notification to exercise and perform such of the powers and functions of a District Collector under this Act, as may be specified in such notification.]",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "28B",
            "title": "28B. Preservation of private forests.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) Any alienation, made in contravention of clause (a) shall be null and void.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "28C",
            "title": "28C. Appeals.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "28D",
            "title": "28D. Power to Prohibit or Regulate Certain Acts.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) prohibit or regulate the doing of any act likely to be detrimental to the preservation of such forest or forests;\n(ii) regulate the exercise of customary or prescriptive rights in such forest or forests.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "28E",
            "title": "28E. Penalties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "28F",
            "title": "28F. Bar of Suits.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 33
        },
        {
            "number": "28G",
            "title": "28G. Power to make Rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the classes or kinds of tree growth which may be permitted to be cut and the girth of such trees;\n(b) the terms and conditions subject to which, sanctions or permissions may be granted\n(c) the procedure to be followed by the District Collector before granting sanctions or permissions.\nChapter 4\nControl of timber and other forest produce in transit or possession",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Power to make rules to regulate the transit and possession of timber and other forest produce.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) the floating of timber in the rivers in the State and the transit of timber and other forest produce by land or water;\n(ii) the possession of teak wood of such value as may be specified in this behalf, or red sanders wood by any person residing in any village within a radius of fifteen kilometers of such reserved forest as may be specified in this behalf.\n(a) specify the routes by which alone timber or other forest produce may be imported, exported or moved into, from or within the State;\n(b) prohibit the import or export or moving of such timber or other forest produce without a permit from a forest Officer duly authorised to issue the same, or otherwise that in accordance with the conditions of such permit, or in the case of timber, without a transit mark affixed by such officer.\n(c) provide for the issue, production and return of such permit or in the case of timber, for affixing of transit mark and for the payment of the fees therefor;\n(d) provide for the stoppage, reporting, examination and marking of timber or other forest produce in transit in respect of which there is reason to believe that any money is payable to the Government on account of the price thereof, or on account of any duty, fee, royalty, or charge due thereon or to which it is desirable for the purpose of this Act to affix a mark;\n(e) provide for\n(i) the establishment and regulation of depots and stations to which such timber or other forest produce shall be taken by those in charge of it for examination, or for the payment of such money or in order that such marks may be affixed to it, the conditions under which such timber or other forest produce shall be brought to, stored at and removed from such depots or stations;\n(ii) the setting up of a check post or the erection of a barrier or both at such places as the Government may specify with a view to prevent or check the carrying of smuggled forest produce; and\n(iii) the management and control of such depots, stations, check posts or barriers, and for regulating the appointment and duties of persons employed thereat.\n(f) prohibit the closing up or obstructing of the channel or banks of any river used for the transit of timber or other forest produce and throwing of grass, brushwood, branches or leaves into any such channel or river or any act which may cause such channel or river to be closed or obstructed.\n(g) provide for the prevention or removal of any obstruction of the channel or banks of any such river and for recovering the cost of such prevention or removal from the person whose act or negligence caused such obstruction.\n(h) prohibit absolutely or subject to such conditions in the entire State of Andhra Pradesh or within such local limits as may be specified, the establishment of pits or machinery for sawing, converting, cutting, burning, concealing or marking of timber, the altering or effacing of any marks on the same, or the possession or carrying of hammers or other implements used for marking timber;]\n(i) regulate the use of property marks for timber and the registration of such marks, declare the circumstances in which the registration of any property marks may be refused or cancelled; prescribe the time for which such registration shall hold good, limit the number of such marks that may be registered by any one person and provide for the levy of fees for such registration.\n(j) provide for the maintenance of accounts in respect of all classes of sandalwood and red sanders wood stored in private lands, depots, markets or factories, for industrial or commercial purposes;\n(k) provide for the protection of bridges locks or other public works by regulating the floating of timber and the storing of such timber or other forest produce on river banks and authorising the seizure of such timber or other forest produce floated or stored in contravention of such rules or by which any damage to such work may have been caused, and the detention and disposal of such timber or other forest produce until compensation has been made for the damage done.\n(i) in every case, where such contravention related to sandal wood or red sanders wood, with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three months but which shall not exceed one year and with fine which shall not exceed ten thousand rupees;\n(ii) in any other case, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees or with both.\n(b) If an offence under this section is committed, after sunset and before sunrise or after preparation for resistance to lawful authority or where the offender has been previously convicted of a like offence, the magistrate having jurisdiction may inflict double the penalty prescribed for such offence.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Government and forest officers not liable for damage to forest produce at depots and stations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Persons employed at depots and stations bound to aid in case of accident.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter 5\nPossession of Sandalwood",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Possession of sandalwood under licence or mark.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Forms and conditions of licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) the form and manner in which application for licence maybe made;\n(b) the terms and conditions which may be included in any licence and the fees for the grant of such licence;\n(c) the grant of duplicate licence and the renewal of licence and fees for the same.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Power to cancel or suspend licence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Appeal.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Penalties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter 6\nOf the collection of drift and stranded timber",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Certain kinds of timber to be deemed property of Government until title thereto is proved and may be collected accordingly.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(b) all timber bearing marks which have not been registered in accordance with the rules made under section 29 or on which the marks have been obliterated, altered or defaced by file or otherwise, and\n(c) all unmarked timber found in such areas as the Government may specify, shall be deemed to be the property of the Government unless and until any person establishes his right and title thereto as provided in this Chapter.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Notice to claimants to drift timber.",
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            "footnote": "",
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            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Procedure on the presentation of claim to such timber.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Disposal of unclaimed timber.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "37",
            "title": "41. Government and their officers not liable for damage to timber collected under section 37.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
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            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Payment to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
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            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Power to make rules and prescribe penalty for contravention thereof.",
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            "content": "(a)the salving, collection and disposal of all timber referred to in this Chapter;\n(b) the use and registration of boats used in salving and collecting timber;\n(c) the costs to be paid for salving, collecting , moving, storing or disposing of such timber;\n(d) the use and registration of hammers and other implements used for marking such timber.\nChapter 7\nPenalties and Procedure",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
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            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Seizure of property liable to confiscation and procedure thereupon.",
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            "content": "(a) a notice in writing informing him of the grounds on which it is proposed to confiscate such property;\n(b) an opportunity of making a representation in writing within such reasonable time as may be specified in the notice against the grounds for confiscation; and\n(c) a reasonable opportunity of being heard in the matter.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. Timber, forest produce, tools. etc., when liable to confiscation.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 51
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        {
            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. Disposal on conclusion of trial for forest offence of timber or forest produce in respect of which it was committed.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 52
        },
        {
            "number": "47",
            "title": "47. Procedure when offender is not known or cannot be found.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 53
        },
        {
            "number": "44",
            "title": "48. Procedure in regard to perishable property seized under Section 44.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 54
        },
        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "49. Appeal from orders under section 45, Section 46 or Section 47.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 55
        },
        {
            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Property when to vest in Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 56
        },
        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Saving of power to release, property seized.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 57
        },
        {
            "number": "52",
            "title": "52. Penalty for counterfeiting marks on trees and timber and for altering boundary marks.",
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            "content": "(a) knowingly counterfeits upon any timber or standing tree, a mark used by any forest officer to indicate that such timber or tree is the property of the Central or State Government or of some person, or that it may lawfully be cut or removed by some person, or that it may lawfully be cut or removed by some person, or\n(b) unlawfully affixes to any timber or standing tree, a mark used by any forest officer, or\n(c) alters, defaces or obliterates any such mark placed on any timber or standing tree by or under the authority of any forest officer, or\n(d) alters, moves, destroys or defaces any boundary mark of any forest or any land to which any provisions of this Act apply. shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extended to two years or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 58
        },
        {
            "number": "53",
            "title": "53. Power to arrest without warrant.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 59
        },
        {
            "number": "54",
            "title": "54. Power to release on bond a person arrested.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 60
        },
        {
            "number": "55",
            "title": "55. Punishment of wrongful seizure or arrest.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 61
        },
        {
            "number": "56",
            "title": "56. Power to prevent commission of offence.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 62
        },
        {
            "number": "57",
            "title": "57. Power to try offences summarily.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 63
        },
        {
            "number": "58",
            "title": "58. Operation of other laws not barred.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 64
        },
        {
            "number": "58A",
            "title": "58A. Order of confiscation not to bar imposition of other penalty.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 65
        },
        {
            "number": "59",
            "title": "59. Power to compound offences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) a sum of money not exceeding fifty rupees where such offence is of a trival nature;\n(ii) a sum of money which shall not in any case be less than the value of the forest produce, or more than four times such value as estimated by such forest officer, in addition to the value of the forest produce, where such offence involves any forest produce which in the opinion of the forest officer, may be released;\n(iii) a sum of money which shall not in any case be less than the value of the forest produce or more than four times such value as estimated by such forest officer, where such offence involves forest produce which in the opinion of the forest officer should be retained by the Government.\n(i) the accused person, if in custody, shall be discharged;\n(ii) the property seized shall, if it is not to be so retained, be released, and\n(iii) no further proceedings shall be taken against such person or property.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 66
        },
        {
            "number": "60",
            "title": "60. Presumption that timber or forest produce belongs to the Central or State Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter 8\nCattle Trespass",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 67
        },
        {
            "number": "61",
            "title": "61. Cattle Trespass Act, 1871 to apply.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter 9\nPowers of Forest Officers",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 68
        },
        {
            "number": "62",
            "title": "62. Government may invest forest officers with certain powers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) to enter upon any land and to survey, demarcate and make a map of the same:\n(ii) to hold enquiries into forest offences, and in the course of such enquiries to receive and record evidence.\n(iii) to accept compensation for forest offences under Section 59.\n(b) The Government may, by notification invest any forest officer, not below the rank of [a Forest Range Officer] with all or any of the following powers, namely:\n(i) power of a civil court to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents and material objects:\n(ii) to search or to issue a search warrant which may be executed in the manner provided in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 69
        },
        {
            "number": "63",
            "title": "63. Forest Officers deemed public servants.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 70
        },
        {
            "number": "64",
            "title": "64. Powers of entry and inspection.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 71
        },
        {
            "number": "65",
            "title": "65. Indemnity for acts done in good faith.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter 10\nMiscellaneous",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 72
        },
        {
            "number": "66",
            "title": "66. Revision.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 73
        },
        {
            "number": "67",
            "title": "67. Power of Government to exempt any area from the provisions of the Act.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 74
        },
        {
            "number": "68",
            "title": "68. Power of Government to make rules.",
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            "content": "(a) declaring by which forest officer or class of forest officers, the powers conferred or duties imposed by or under this Act on a forest officer shall be exercised or performed.\n(b) regulating the procedure to be followed by the Forest Settlement Officer;\n(c) regulating the rewards to be paid to officers or informers from the proceeds of fines and confiscations under this Act, or from the Government treasury;\n(d) regulating or prohibiting, hunting, shooting, carrying firearms, fishing, poisoning of water or setting traps or snares on or from any public road passing through or situated within a distance of thirty metres from any forest:\n(e) the preservation, reproduction and disposal of trees and timber belonging to the Government;\n(f) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 75
        },
        {
            "number": "69",
            "title": "69. Government may delegate powers.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 76
        },
        {
            "number": "70",
            "title": "70. Recovery of money due to Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 77
        },
        {
            "number": "71",
            "title": "71. Land required under this Act to be deemed to be deemed to be needed for public purpose under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 78
        },
        {
            "number": "72",
            "title": "72. Repeal.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 79
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        "Act ID": "ap106",
        "Act Number": "(Act No. 1 of 1967)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1967",
        "Short Title": "Andhra Pradesh Forest Act, 1967",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Andhra Pradesh"
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    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}