(a) An appeal under section 11 shall be preferred within 9[sixty days] months from the date of service of notice under 10[section 9 or 10,] provided that the time taken to obtain a copy of the decision and of the map shall not be included in the period of 9[sixty days] allowed for appeal.
(b) No appeal preferred after the expiry of the said period shall be admitted provided that the appellate authority may admit an appeal after the expiry of the said period on his being satisfied that the appellant had good and sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal within such period.
Explanation:- The fact that notice under 10[section 9 or 10] was not served personally on the appellant shall be deemed to be good and sufficient cause within the meaning of the above proviso.
8. Substituted by the Andhra Pradesh Survey and Boundaries (Validation) Act, 1924 (Act II of 1925) (deemed to have been in force w.e.f.29.05.1923.)
9. Substituted by Act No.6 of 2007.
10. Substituted for the words and figures “section 8, 9 or 10” by the Andhra Pradesh Survey and Boundaries (Amendment) Act, 1952 (Act X of 1952).
Period within which appeal should be preferred.
Proviso.
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(c) No appeal shall be admitted under sub-section (b) after the issue of the notification specified in section 13.
13. When the survey of any land or boundary which has been notified under section 5 has been completed in accordance with the orders passed under section 9, 10 or 11, the survey officer shall notify the fact in the district gazette and a copy of such notification shall be posted in the village chavadi, if any, of the village to which the survey relates; unless the survey so notified is modified by a decree of a civil court under the provisions of section 14, the record of the survey shall be conclusive proof that the boundaries determined and recorded therein have been correctly determined and recorded:
11[Provided that in the case of land or boundary situated in the territories specified in sub-section (1) of section 3 of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 until a District Gazette is published for the districts in the said territories, a notification as required by this section shall be published in the Telangana Gazette in lieu of publication in the District Gazette.]
14. Any person deeming himself aggrieved by the determination of any boundary under section 9, 10 or 11 may, subject to the provisions of Parts II and III of the Indian Limitation Act, 1908, institute a suit within three years from the date of the notification under section 13 to set aside or modify the said determination and the survey shaII, if necessary, be altered in accordance with the final decree in the suit and the alteration, if any, shall be noted in the record.
11. This proviso was added by the Andhra Pradesh Survey and Boundaries (Extension and Amendment) Act, 1958 (Act XXII of 1958).
Completion of demarcation to be notified.
Central Act 37 of 1956.
Institution of a suit in civil court within three years to establish rights claimed in respect of the boundary of the property surveyed.
[Act No.VIII of 1923] 9 The plaintiff in such suit shall join as parties to it all persons whom he has reason to believe to be interested in the boundary which is the subject of the suit.