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CHAPTER II RESERVED FORESTS

Section 15: Notification declaring Forest reserved

The Andhra Pradesh Forest Act, 1967

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Text as published by India Code for the Government of Andhra Pradesh (Environment, Forest, Science and Technology Department), with amendments up to Act 15 of 2016 (the Andhra Pradesh Forest (Amendment) Act, 2016).

Chapter IIIA (sections 28A to 28G, Preservation of Private Forests) applies only in the Scheduled Areas and is not part of this India Code text; it is printed in the 2012 text of the Act hosted by the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority, and the instrument that inserted it has not been identified.

(1) Upon the occurrence of the following events, namely:-

(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

(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

(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 the 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.

(2) Copies of the notification shall also be published in the District Gazette, if any, and in the manner provided for the proclamation under section 6.