8. With effect from the date of commencement of this Act all the property of the following classes, namely-
| (a) waste land and open spaces; |
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| (b) stone,cabook and gravel quarries |
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| (c) public lakes and streams; |
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| (d) public tanks, ponds and channels ; |
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| (e) state lands, whether with or without buildings ; and |
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| (f) public parks and gardens and all erections and structures therein, |
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vested in the local authority within whose administrative limits such property is situated, other than all the property deemed to have vested in such local authority, by section 6 of the principal enactment, as amended by section 5 of this Act is hereby vested in the State. |
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