Where fire is caused wilfully or negligently by any person or persons in a reserved forest or any portion thereof, the Government may direct that in such forest or portion thereof, the exercise of all rights of pasture or to forest produce shall be suspended for such period as they think fit.
CHAPTER II RESERVED FORESTS
Section 21: Suspension of rights in reserved forests
The Andhra Pradesh Forest Act, 1967
How current this text is
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.