The Goa Education Development Corporation Act, 2003

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    "title": "The Goa Education Development Corporation Act, 2003",
    "short_title": "The Goa Education Development Corporation Act, 2003",
    "act_number": "(Goa Act 22 of 2003)",
    "act_year": 2003,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Goa",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Goa Education Development Corporation Act, 2003",
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    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"amenity\" includes road, supply of water or electricity, connectivity, street lighting, drainage, sewerage, conservancy and such other convenience as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify to be an amenity for the purposes of this Act;\n(b) \"building\" means any structure or erection, or a part of a structure or erection, which is intended to be used for residential, educational, commercial or other purposes, whether in actual use or not;\n(c) \"Collector\" means the Collector of a district, and includes any Officer specially appointed by the State Government to perform the functions of a Collector under this Act;\n(d) \"Corporation\" means the Goa Education Development Corporation established under section 3;\n(e) \"development\" with its grammatical variations, means the carrying out of building, engineering, quarrying or other operations in, on, over, or under land, or the making of any material change in any building or land, and includes re-development, and \"to develop\" shall be construed accordingly;\n(f) \"engineering operations\" include the formation or laying out of means of access to a road or the laying out of means of water supply;\n(g) \"educational area\" means any area declared to be an educational area by the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette, which is to be developed and where educational institutions are to be accommodated;\n(h) \"educational estate\" means any site selected by the State Government where the Corporation develops plots of land and/or builds buildings and makes them available for any educational institutions;\n(i) \"educational facility\" means any establishment utilized for the purpose of education and includes Colleges, Institutions, industrial establishment, production and tool room, testing labs, research labs, manufacturing units, etc. (or such like);\n(j) \"educational service\" means any service which is directly/indirectly undertaken partly/entirely for the purpose of education and includes teaching and learning (formal/informal), research activity, apprenticeship training, training workshop, seminars, conferences testing, etc.\n(k) \"means of access\" includes a road, wharf or any means of access, whether private or public, for vehicles or boats or for foot passengers;\n(l) \"premises\" means any land or building or part of a building and includes-\n(i) the garden, grounds and out-houses, if any, appertaining to such building or part of a building; and\n(ii) any fittings affixed to such building or part of a building for the more beneficial enjoyment thereof;\n(m) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(n) the expression \"land\" and the expression \"person interested\" shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in section 3 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (1 of 1894);\n(o) \"State Government\" means the Government of Goa.\nChapter II\nEstablishment and Constitution of the Corporation",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Establishment and incorporation.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Constitution.",
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            "content": "(a) Secretary to the Government of Goa (in the Department of Higher Education or Education);\n(b) Director (Technical Education or Higher Education or Education);\n(c) [Two educationist] to be nominated by the State Government;\n(d) [Two persons] having shown capacity in developing and building of institutions of excellence in the field of education, to be nominated by the State Government;\n(e) The Managing Director of the Corporation, who shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall also be the ex-officio Secretary to the Corporation;",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Disqualification for being director.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) is an employee of the Corporation, not being the Managing Director, or\n(b) is of unsound mind, and stands so declared, by a competent court, or\n(c) is an undischarged insolvent, or\n(d) is convicted of an offence involving moral turpitude within a period of five years immediately before his being nominated as a director.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Terms of Office and conditions of service of director.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Meetings of Corporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Cessation of being director.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) becomes, subject to any of the disqualifications mentioned in section 5, or\n(b) tenders his resignation in writing to, and such resignation is accepted by, the State Government, or\n(c) is absent without the Corporation's permission from three consecutive meetings of the Corporation, or from all meetings of the Corporation, for three consecutive months, or\n(d) is convicted of an offence involving moral turpitude, he shall cease to be a director of the Corporation.\n(a) has refused to act, or\n(b) has become incapable of acting, or\n(c) has so abused his position as director as to render his continuance on the Corporation detrimental to the interest thereof or of the general public, or\n(d) is otherwise unfit to continue as director:",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Vacancies how to be filled.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Temporary absence of directors.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Proceeding presumed to be good and valid.",
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        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Officers and servants of the Corporation.",
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            "content": "(a) as regards the Managing Director and the Chief Accounts Officer, be such as may be prescribed, and\n(b) as regards the other officers and servants, be such as may be determined by regulations made under this Act.\nChapter III\nFunctions and Powers of the Corporation",
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        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Functions.",
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            "content": "(i) Generally to promote and assist in the rapid and orderly establishment, growth and development of educational institutions, services and facilities in the State of Goa, in order to develop competitive, flexible and value-based education system to meet the individual, institutional and socio-cultural developmental needs of the people of Goa.\n(ii) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of clause (i), to-\n(a) establish and manage educational estates at places selected by the State Government;\n(b) develop educational areas selected by the State Government for the purpose and make them available for educational institutions to establish themselves;\n(c) promote schemes for preparation of graduates for the knowledge based economy and society;\n(d) develop educational testing services and make them available to educational institutions for selection of candidates;\n(e) develop facilities relating to information technology, such as broadband connectivity and wide area networks, and make them available for educational institutions;\n(f) develop learning and training materials, including e-learning software and technology;\n(g) promote schemes to increase literacy, in particular that relating to information technology, at all levels;\n(h) implement schemes for the benefit of students, such as loans and scholarships, libraries and book banks, publication of books, involvement of parents in education process, to assist them in their pursuit of vocational, higher and/or technical education;\n(i) encourage development of research facilities;\n(j) hold conferences, workshops, panel discussions, etc. in educational field;\n(k) undertake schemes or works, either jointly or on agency basis, with other corporate bodies or institutions, or with the Government, in furtherance of the purposes for which the Corporation is established and all matter connected therewith.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. General powers of the Corporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) to acquire and hold such property, both movable and immovable, as the Corporation may deem necessary for the performance of any of its activities and to lease, sell, exchange or otherwise transfer any property held by it on such conditions including a condition that any fees charged by the transferee shall be in accordance with such guidelines that may be framed by the corporation in this regard from time to time as may be deemed proper by the Corporation;\n(b) to provide or cause to be provided amenities and common facilities in educational estates and educational areas and construct and maintain or cause to be maintained works and buildings thereof;\n(c) to make available buildings on hire or sale to educationists or persons intending to start educational institutions, services or facilities;\n(d) to construct buildings for the housing of the employees of educational institutions and service providers;\n(e) (i) to allot plots of land or such buildings or parts of buildings, including residential tenements to suitable persons in the educational estates established or developed by the Corporation;\n(ii) to modify or rescind such allotments, including the right and power to evict the allottees concerned on breach of any of the terms or conditions of their allotment;\n(f) to constitute advisory committee to advise the Corporation;\n(g) to engage suitable consultants or persons having special knowledge or skills to assist the Corporation in the performance of its functions;\n(h) subject to the previous permission of the State Government, to delegate any of its powers, generally or specially, to any of its committees or Officers, and to permit them to re-delegate specific powers to their subordinates;\n(i) to enter into and perform all such contracts as it may consider necessary or expedient for carrying out any of its functions; and\n(j) to do such other things and perform such acts as it may think necessary or expedient for the proper conduct of its functions and carrying into effects the purposes of this Act.",
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        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Authentication of orders and documents of Corporation.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Directions by the State Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter IV\nFinance, Accounts and Audit",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Application of Corporation's assets.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Corporation's fund.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all monies received by the Corporation by way of grants, subventions, loans, advances or otherwise;\n(b) all fees, costs and charges received by the Corporation under this Act;\n(c) all monies received by the Corporation from the disposal of lands, buildings and other properties, movable and immovable, and other transactions;\n(d) all monies received by the Corporation by way of rents and profits, or in any other manner or from any other source including the proceeds of any loan authorised by section 20.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Grants, subventions, loans and advances and capital contribution to the Corporation.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Power of the Corporation to borrow.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Deposits.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Reserve and other funds.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Expenditure from funds.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 22
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Budget and programme of work.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 23
        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Accounts and audit.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 24
        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Concurrent and special audit of accounts.",
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            "content": "Chapter V\nAcquisition and Disposal of Land",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 25
        },
        {
            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Acquisition of land for the Corporation to be a public purpose.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 26
        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Disposal of land by the Corporation.",
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            "content": "(a) any land acquired by the State Government and transferred to it, without undertaking or carrying out any development thereon; or\n(b) any such land after undertaking or carrying out such development as it thinks fit, to such persons in such manner and subject to such terms and conditions, as it considers expedient for securing the purposes of this Act.\n(a) where the Corporation proposes to dispose of by sale any such land without any development having been undertaken or carried out thereon, the Corporation shall offer the land in the first instance to the person from whom it was acquired, if they desire to purchase it, subject to such requirements as to its development and use as the Corporation may think fit to impose;\n(b) persons who are residing or carrying on business or other activities on any such land shall, if they desire to obtain accommodation on land belonging to the Corporation and are willing to comply with any requirements of the Corporation as to its development and use, have an opportunity to obtain thereon accommodation suitable to their reasonable requirements on terms settled with due regard to the price at which any such land has been acquired from them.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 27
        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Government lands.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Chapter VI\nSupplementary and Miscellaneous Provisions",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 28
        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Powers of Corporation in case of certain defaults by owner of land in educational area.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 29
        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Order of demolition of building.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 30
        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Power to stop building operations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 31
        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Penalty for construction or use of land and buildings contrary to terms of holding.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Power to lay pipe lines, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) carrying gas, water or electricity from a source of supply to the said area or\n(b) constructing any sewers or drains through, any intervening area, lay down, place, maintain, alter, remove or repair any pipes, pipe lines, conduits, supply or service lines, posts or other appliances or apparatus in, on, under, over, along or across any land in such areas.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 33
        },
        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Powers of entry.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) making any inspection, survey, measurement, valuation or enquiry or taking levels of such land or building;\n(b) examining works under construction and ascertaining the course of sewers and drains;\n(c) digging or boring into the sub-soil;\n(d) setting out boundaries and intended lines of work;\n(e) marking such levels, boundaries and lines by placing marks and cutting trenches;\n(f) doing any other thing necessary for the efficient administration of this Act:\n(i) no such entry shall be made except between the hours of sunrise and sunset, and without giving reasonable notice to the occupier, or if there be no occupier, to the owner of the land or building;\n(ii) sufficient opportunity shall in every instance be given to enable women (if any) to withdraw from such land or building;\n(iii) due regard shall always be had, so far as may be compatible with the exigencies of the purpose for which the entry is made, to the social and religious usages of the occupants of the land or building entered.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 34
        },
        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Officers of the Corporation may be vested with other powers.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 35
        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Overriding powers of Government to issue directions to local authorities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 36
        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Declaration as educational area.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) declare an educational area which is-\n(i) earmarked as educational estate; and\n(ii) having adequate facilities in respect of power, roads, water supply, to be notified area;\n(b) appoint the Corporation or any Officer or Committee thereof for the purpose of the assessment and recovery of any taxes when imposed as per the provisions made thereof;\n(c) declare that the provisions of any law relating to local authorities providing for control or erection of buildings, levy and collection of taxes, fees and other dues to the local authority which is in force in that area shall cease to apply and thereupon such provisions shall cease to apply thereof:\n(d) make other provision as is necessary for the purpose of the enforcement of the provision so provided to that area.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 37
        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Recovery of sums due to the Corporation as arrears of land revenue.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Service of notices, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) where the person to be served is a company, if the service is effected in accordance with the provisions of section 51 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956);\n(b) where the person to be served is a firm, if the document is addressed to the firm at its principal place of business identifying it by the name or style under which its business is carried on, and is either-\n(i) sent under a certificate of posting or by registered post, or\n(ii) left at the said place of business;\n(c) where the person to be served is a statutory public body or a corporation or a society or other body, if the document is addressed to the secretary, treasurer or other chief officer of that body, corporation or society at its principal office and is either-\n(i) sent under a certificate of posting or by registered post, or\n(ii) left at that office;\n(d) in any other case, if the document is addressed to the person to be served and-\n(i) is given or tendered to him, or\n(ii) if such person cannot be found, is affixed on some conspicuous part of his last known place of residence or business or is given or tendered to some adult member of his family or is affixed on some conspicuous part of the land or building to which it relates, or\n(iii) is sent under a certificate of posting or by registered post to that person.\n(a) if the document so addressed is sent or delivered in accordance with clause (d) of sub-section (1); or\n(b) if the document so addressed or a copy thereof so addressed, is given or tendered to some person on the land or building or, where there is no person on the land or building to whom it can be delivered, is affixed on some conspicuous part of the land or building.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Public notices how to be made known.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Notices, etc. to fix reasonable time.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Furnishing of returns etc.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Withdrawal of area or estate or part thereof.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 43
        },
        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. Default in performance of duty.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 44
        },
        {
            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. Dissolution of Corporation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) all properties, funds and dues which are vested in, or realizable by, the Corporation shall vest in, or be realizable by, the State Government;\n(b) all liabilities which are enforceable against the Corporation shall be enforceable against the State Government.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 45
        },
        {
            "number": "47",
            "title": "47. Authority for prosecution.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 46
        },
        {
            "number": "48",
            "title": "48. Composition of offences by Corporation.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 47
        },
        {
            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. Offence by companies.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Explanation:\n(a) \"company\" means a body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals; and\n(b) \"director\" in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 48
        },
        {
            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Penalty for obstruction.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 49
        },
        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Power to make rules.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) under section 6, the honorarium and compensatory allowance of the directors of the Corporation;\n(b) under section 12, the conditions of appointment and service and the scales of pay of the Managing Director and the Chief Accounts Officer of the Corporation;\n(c) under section 18, the sums of money to be kept by the Corporation in current and deposit accounts;\n(d) under section 20, the conditions subject to which the Corporation may borrow;\n(e) under section 24, the date by which the annual financial statement and programme of work shall be submitted by the Corporation to the State Government and the form and manner of preparing such statement;\n(f) under section 25, the manner of maintaining accounts;\n(g) under section 43, the form of, and the details to be given in, the annual report;\n(h) the fees which may be charged by the Corporation;\n(i) any other matter which has to be, or may be, prescribed by rules.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "52",
            "title": "52. Power to make regulations.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) under section 7, the time and place of meetings of the Corporation and the procedure to be followed in regard to the transaction of business at such meetings;\n(b) under section 12, the conditions of appointment and service and the scales of pay of officers and servants of the Corporation, other than the Managing Director and the Chief Accounts Officer;\n(c) under section 18, the officers of the Corporation who may operate its accounts;\n(d) under section 29, the manner in which Government lands shall be dealt with by the Corporation after development;\n(e) under section 31, the Committee of the Corporation to hear appeals under that section and the procedure to be followed by it;\n(f) under section 33, the additional terms and conditions subject to which lands and buildings in educational estate and educational areas may be held or used;\n(g) any other matter which has to be, or may be, provided by regulations.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 51
        },
        {
            "number": "53",
            "title": "53. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 52
        },
        {
            "number": "54",
            "title": "54. Notice of suit and limitation of suits against the Corporation, Committees, Officers and servants for acts done in pursuance of execution of this Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) unless it is commenced within six months after the accrual of the cause of action; and\n(b) until the expiration of two months after the notice in writing has been, in the case of the Corporation or its Committee, delivered or left at the Corporation's office and in the case of an Officer or servant of the Corporation, delivered to him or left at his office or place of abode; and all such notices shall state with reasonable particulars the cause of action and the name and place of abode of the intending plaintiff and of his advocate, pleader, or agent, if any, for the purpose of the suit.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 53
        },
        {
            "number": "55",
            "title": "55. Directors, officers and staff of Corporation to be public servants.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 54
        },
        {
            "number": "56",
            "title": "56. Power to remove doubts and difficulties.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 55
        },
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