CHAPTER II RESERVED FORESTS
The Andhra Pradesh Forest Act, 1967
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.
For the purpose of an inquiry under section 8, the Forest Settlement Officer may exercise the following powers, namely:-
(a) power to enter by himself or to authorise any officer to enter upon any land and to survey, demarcate and make a map of the land; and
(b) the powers conferred on a civil court by the Code of Civil Procedure 1908, for summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person and examining him on oath and requiring the production of any document or other article.