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CHAPTER VIII CATTLE TRESPASS

Section 61: Cattle Trespass Act, 1871 to apply

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) Cattle trespassing in a 1[proposed reserve forest and reserve forest] or in a protected forest shall be deemed to be cattle doing damage to a public plantation within the meaning of section 11 of the Cattle Trespass Act 1871, and may be seized and impounded as such by any forest officer or police officer.

2[(2) (i) the Government may by notification, fix the fine to be levied for each goat or kid and other cattle impounded under subsection (1).

(ii) The payment of fine fixed by section 12 of the Act referred to in sub-section (1) shall not be in lieu of but shall be in addition to any amount of compensation leviable under section 20, or section 27 or section 59].

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Substituted by Act 15 of 2016, section 22.
  2. 2.Substituted by Act 15 of 2016, section 22.