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CHAPTER VII PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE

Section 54: Power to release on bond a person arrested

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.

Any forest officer not below the rank of Forester, who or whose subordinate has arrested any person under the provisions of section 53, may release such person on his executing a bond to appear, if any when so required, before the magistrate or before the officer in charge of the nearest police station.

1[Provided that the arrested person shall not be released on his personal bond unless he produces two sureties to the satisfaction of the Forest Officer concerned.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Proviso inserted by Act 15 of 2016, section 18.