The Government shall not be responsible for any loss or damage which may occur in respect of any timber collected under section 37 and no forest officer shall be responsible for any such loss or damage unless he causes such loss or damage negligently, wilfully, maliciously or fraudulently.
CHAPTER – VI OF THE COLLECTION OF DRIFT AND STRANDED TIMBER
Section 41: Government and their officers not liable for damage to timber collected under section 37
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.