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    "id": 16452,
    "slug": "goa-prevention-of-defacement-of-property-act-1988",
    "title": "The Goa Prevention of Defacement of Property Act, 1988",
    "short_title": "The Goa Prevention of Defacement of Property Act, 1988",
    "act_number": "(Goa Act No. 5 of 1990)",
    "act_year": 1988,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Goa",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Goa Prevention of Defacement of Property Act, 1988",
    "preamble": "",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 0
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) 'Government' means the Government of the State of Goa;\n(b) 'Collector' means the Collector of the North and South Districts of Goa and includes any officer appointed by the Government to exercise and perform all or any of the powers and functions of a Collector under this Act;\n(c) 'defacement' includes impairing or interfering with the appearance or beauty, damaging, disfiguring, spoiling or injuring in any way whatsoever and the word \"deface\" shall be construed accordingly;\n(d) 'Official Gazette' means the Goa Government Gazette;\n(e) 'Notification' means notification published in the Official Gazette;\n(f) 'property' includes any building, hut, monument, statue, water pipe line, public road, structure, wall including compound wall, tree, fence, post, pole or any other erection except at specified places; [the words \"except at places specified by the Government or local authority from time to time\" shall be substituted.] .\n(g) 'public view' means anything which is visible to public while they are in or passing along any public place;\n(h) 'public place' means any place (including a road, street or way whether a thoroughfare or not and a landing place) to which the public are granted access or have a right to resort or over which they have a right to pass;\n(i) 'writing' includes decoration, lettering, ornamentation, etc., produced by stencil.",
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            "is_definition": true,
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        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Penalty for defacement of property.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[(i) for the words \"one thousand rupees\", the words \"five thousand rupees\" shall be substituted;\n(ii) for the existing proviso, the following shall be substituted, namely:-",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 2
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Punishment for attempt to commit offences.",
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            "sort_order": 3
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Punishment for abettors.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Offence to be cognizable.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Power of the Collector to erase writing, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Indemnity.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Act to override other laws.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "goa141",
        "Act Number": "(Goa Act No. 5 of 1990)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1988",
        "Short Title": "The Goa Prevention of Defacement of Property Act, 1988",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Goa"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:44"
}