The Andhra Pradesh Revenue Summonses Act, 1869

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    "title": "The Andhra Pradesh Revenue Summonses Act, 1869",
    "short_title": "The Andhra Pradesh Revenue Summonses Act, 1869",
    "act_number": "Act No. 3 of 1869",
    "act_year": 1869,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Andhra Pradesh",
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    "description": "The Andhra Pradesh Revenue Summonses Act, 1869",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Revenue officers empowered to summon persons to appear or to produce documents:",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Terms of Summons:",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Service of summons:",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Persons summoned to produce may send documents by third party:",
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            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. When personal attendance of witnesses dispensed with:",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Officers to have powers of a Civil Court in certain matters:",
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            "content": "(a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath ; and\n(b) requiring the production of any document or other article.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Power to make rules:",
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            "content": "(a) the form of summons to be issued under this Act ;\n(b) the scale of fees to be levied for the service of processes, when summons are issued at the instance of parties in an enquiry.\n(c) the scale of allowances payable to persons summoned to give evidence and their deposit by parties at whose instance the summons are issued ;\n(d) any other matter incidental to, or necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "AP023",
        "Act Number": "Act No. 3 of 1869",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1869",
        "Short Title": "The Andhra Pradesh Revenue Summonses Act, 1869",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Andhra Pradesh"
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    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
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