No person shall be entitled to recover possession of any timber collected under section 37 or delivered under section 39 until he has paid to the forest officer or other person entitled to receive it such sum on account thereof as may be due under any rule made under section 43.
CHAPTER – VI OF THE COLLECTION OF DRIFT AND STRANDED TIMBER
Section 42: Payment to be made by claimant before timber is delivered to him
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.