The Goa Ferries Act, 1990

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    "title": "The Goa Ferries Act, 1990",
    "short_title": "The Goa Ferries Act, 1990",
    "act_number": "(Goa Act No. 9 of 1990)",
    "act_year": 1990,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Goa",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Goa Ferries Act, 1990",
    "preamble": "",
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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) 'Captain of Ports' means the Captain of Ports of the Government;\n(b) 'channel' means any canal, river, lake, backwaters, creeks or other navigable waterways;\n(c) 'ferry' means a place at which goods or passengers or vehicles are conveyed across a channel by means of vessels, and includes also the approaches to and landing places of a ferry;\n(d) 'Government' means the Government of Goa;\n(e) 'lessee' means any person who holds right of tolls at public ferry on lease;\n(f) 'notification' means a notification published in the Official Gazette;\n(g) 'Official Gazette' means the Official Gazette of the Government;\n(h) 'prescribed' means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(i) 'public ferry' means a ferry which is declared to be a public ferry under the provisions of this Act.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Power to declare, establish, define limits or routes and discontinue public ferries.",
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            "content": "(a) declare as to which ferry shall be public ferry, and the respective districts in which for the purposes of this Act it shall be deemed to be situated;\n(b) establish new public ferries where, in its opinion, they are needed;\n(c) define the limits of any public ferry;\n(d) define or alter the routes of navigation at any public ferry; and\n(e) discontinue any public ferry which it deems unnecessary:",
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        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Power to cause levy of toll.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Power of Government to lease levy of tolls.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Powers and liabilities of lessees and their Agents.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Power of seizure.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Assistance by the Police Officers.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Exhibition of table of tolls and statement of penalties.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Penalties.",
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            "sort_order": 9
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Power to make rules.",
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            "sort_order": 10
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        "Act ID": "goa071",
        "Act Number": "(Goa Act No. 9 of 1990)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1990",
        "Short Title": "The Goa Ferries Act, 1990",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Goa"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:43"
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