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CHAPTER VII PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE

Section 60D: Management of properties seized or forfeited under this Act

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.

(1) The State Government may, by order published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette, appoint as many of its officers not below the rank of Conservator of Forests as it thinks fit, to perform the functions of an Administrator.

(2) The Administrator appointed under subsection (1) shall receive and manage the property in relation to which an order has been made under sub-section (1) of section 60C or under section 60F in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.

(3) The Administrator shall also take such measures as the State Government may direct, to dispose of the property which is forfeited to the State Government.