(1) When any survey is ordered under section 5, the survey officer shall publish a notification in the prescribed manner inviting all persons having any interest in the land or in the boundaries of which the survey has been ordered, to attend either in person or by agent at a specified place and time and from time to time thereafter when called upon for the purpose of pointing out boundaries and supplying information in connexion therewith.
(2) A notification published under sub-section (1) shall be held to be a valid notice to every person having any interest in the land or in the boundaries of which the survey has been ordered.
5[7. The Survey Officer shall carry out the survey or shall cause the survey carried out with the assistance of an external or internal agency approved by the Government in the manner prescribed.
(1) In order to meet the cost of bringing the land records upto date, their computerization and for conducting a need based re-survey, there shall be levied and collected a one time cess of rupees twenty per acre on all lands in the
4. The words “State Government” were substituted by the Adaptation of Laws Orders, 1937 and 1950.
5. Section 7 substituted by Act No.36 of 1995, along with the provisions thereunder.
State Government may direct the survey of Government land or of any boundary of such land.
Notification to be published by survey officers.
Such notification to be valid notice to persons interested.
Survey officer to carry out the survey or get the survey carried out in the manner prescribed.
Levy of one time cess for survey etc.
[Act No.VIII of 1923] 5 State, notwithstanding anything contained in the principal Act. The amount so collected shall be credited to a fund called “Survey and Land Records Fund”.
(2) The levy and collection of the cess under subsection (1) and the expenditure from the Survey and Land Records Fund shall be in such manner as may be prescribed.]
8. 6[(1)] The cost, if any, of the labour employed and of the survey marks used in any survey notified under section 5 shall be determined and apportioned in the prescribed manner among the persons who have any interest in the land or in the boundaries of which the survey has been ordered and shall be recoverable from such persons as an arrear of land revenue. Notice of such determination and apportionment shall be given in the prescribed manner to the persons aforesaid.
6[(2) Any person affected by a decision under subsection (1) may appeal to the prescribed officer whose decision, with reasons therefor, shall be recorded in writing;
and notice of such decision shall be given in the prescribed manner to the parties to the appeal.
(3) An appeal under sub-section (2) shall be preferred within three months from the date of service of notice under sub-section (1), after excluding the time taken to obtain a copy of the decision:
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 that period.
6. Section 8 was renumbered as sub-section (1) and sub-sections (2),
(3) and (4) were added, by the Andhra Pradesh Survey and Boundaries (Amendment) Act, 1952 (Act X of 1952).
Cost to be charged to persons interested in the lands surveyed.
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Explanation:- The fact that notice under sub-section (1) was not served personally on the appellant shall be deemed to be good and sufficient cause within the meaning of the above proviso.
(4) A copy of the order under sub-section (2) shall be furnished to any person interested in such order on his application and at his cost.]