THE GOA LAYING OF RULES BEFORE LEGISLATURE ACT, 1980

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    "title": "THE GOA LAYING OF RULES BEFORE LEGISLATURE ACT, 1980",
    "short_title": "The Goa Laying of Rules Before Legislature Act, 1980",
    "act_number": "5",
    "act_year": 1980,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Goa",
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    "enactment_date": "1980-05-06",
    "description": "The Goa Laying of Rules Before Legislature Act, 1980",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "An ACT",
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            "content": "to provide for laying of rules framed by Government before Legislature and for matters\nincidental thereto.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "Preamble",
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            "content": "Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Goa, Daman and Diu in the Thirty-first\nYear of the Republic of India as follows:-",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1. Short title and commencement",
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            "content": "1. Short title and commencement.",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(1)",
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            "content": "(1) This Act may be called the Goa [Omitted]\nLaying of Rules before Legislature Act, 1980.",
            "footnote": "Goa Act 20 of 2021",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1(2)",
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            "content": "(2) It shall come into force at once.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions",
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            "content": "2. Definitions. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(a)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) \"Act\" means a legislation enacted by the Legislature;",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(b)",
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            "content": "(b) \"Government\" means the Government of Goa, Daman and Diu;",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(c)",
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            "content": "(c) \"Legislature\" means the Legislative Assembly of Goa, Daman and Diu;",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(d)",
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            "content": "(d) \"Official Gazette\" means the Official Gazette of Goa, Daman and Diu;",
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            "is_definition": true,
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2(e)",
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            "content": "(e) \"Union territory\" means the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu.",
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        },
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3. Laying of rules made by Government before Legislature",
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            "content": "3. Laying of rules made by Government before Legislature.",
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            "title": "Section 3(1)",
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            "content": "(1) On and from the\ndate of commencement of this Act, all rules made by Government under an Act shall, as\nsoon as may be after they are made, be laid before the Legislature while it is in session for\na total period of not less than fourteen days, which may be comprised in one session or\ntwo or more successive sessions, and shall, unless some later date is appointed, take effect\nfrom the date of their publication in the Official Gazette subject to such modification or\nannulment as the Legislature may, during the said period, agree to make, so however, that\nany such modification or annulment, shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything\npreviously done thereunder.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3(2)",
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            "content": "(2) Where any Central Act, in force in or applicable to Union territory confers power\r\non the Government to make rules thereunder, then subject to any express provisions to the\r\ncontrary in such Central Act, the provisions of sub-section (1) shall mutatis mutandis\r\napply to the rules made by the Government in exercise of that power.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "198005",
        "Act Number": "5",
        "Enactment Date": "1980-05-06",
        "Act Year": "1980",
        "Short Title": "The Goa Laying of Rules Before Legislature Act, 1980",
        "Department": "Law Department",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Goa"
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    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:43"
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