{ "id": 16403, "slug": "the-goa-housing-board-act-1968", "title": "The Goa, Housing Board Act, 1968", "short_title": "The Goa, Housing Board Act, 1968", "act_number": "(Act No 12 of 1968)", "act_year": 1968, "act_type": "STATE", "location": "Goa", "law_status": "unknown", "enactment_date": null, "description": "The Goa, Housing Board Act, 1968", "preamble": "", "section_label": "Section", "sections": [ { "number": "1", "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 0 }, { "number": "2", "title": "2. Definitions.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) \"adjoining area\" means such area as may be specified to be an adjoining area under section 29;\n(b) \"appointed day\" means such date as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint;\n(c) \"betterment charges\" means charges leviable under section 54;\n(d) \"Board\" means the Goa [* * *] Housing Board, established under this Act;\n(e) \"Board premises\" means any premises belonging to or vesting in the Board or taken on lease or otherwise by the Board or entrusted to the Board under this Act for management and use for the purposes of this Act;\n(f) \"building materials\" means such commodities or articles as are specified to be building materials for the purpose of this Act by notification by the Government;\n(g) \"Chairman\" means the Chairman of the Board;\n(h) \"competent authority\" means any person authorised by notification by the Government to perform the functions of the competent authority under section 60;\n(i) \"co-operative society\" means a society registered or deemed to be registered under the law relating to co-operative societies for the time being in force in this territory;\n(j) \"housing scheme\" means a housing scheme framed under this Act;\n(k) [ \"Government\" means the Government of Goa;]\n(l) \"land\" includes benefits arising out of land and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth;\n(m) \"member\" means a member of the Board and includes the Chairman;\n(n) \"local authority\" means the area under the jurisdiction of a municipal council or a nagar panchayat or a panchayat constituted under any law for the time being in force in the territory;\n(o) \"notification\" means a notification published in the Official Gazette;\n(p) \"premises\" means any land or building or part of a building and includes-\n(i) gardens, ground 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(q) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(r) \"regulations\" means regulations made under section 129;\n(s) \"rent\" means the amount payable to the Board in respect of the occupation of any Board premises and includes the charges for water and electricity used or consumed in the premises;\n(t) [ \"Secretary\" means the Secretary-cum-Managing Director of the Board;]\n(u) \"Territory\" means the Union Territory of Goa, Daman and Diu;\n(v) \"year\" means the financial year.\nChapter - II\nEstablishment of Board", "footnote": "", "is_definition": true, "sort_order": 1 }, { "number": "3", "title": "3. Establishment and incorporation of Board.", "chapter": null, "content": "Explanation:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 2 }, { "number": "4", "title": "4. Constitution of Board.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 3 }, { "number": "5", "title": "5. Term of office of Chairman and other members.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 4 }, { "number": "6", "title": "6. Disqualification for appointment.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) if he holds any office of profit under the Board;\n(b) if he is of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court;\n(c) if he is an undischarged insolvent;\n(d) if he has, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any partner, any share or interest in any contract with, by or on behalf of the Board;\n(e) if he is a Director or Secretary, Manager or other salaried officer of any incorporated company which has any share or interest in any contract with, by or on behalf of the Board;\n(f) if he has been convicted by a competent court of an offence involving moral turpitude.\n(i) any newspaper in which any advertisement relating to the affairs of the Board is inserted;\n(ii) any sale, purchase, lease or exchange of immovable property or any agreement for the same;\n(iii) any agreement for any security for the payment of money only.\nExplanation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 5 }, { "number": "7", "title": "7. Removal of Chairman and other members.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) who is, or has become, subject to any of the disqualifications mentioned in section 6;\n(b) who is absent without the permission of the Board from all the meetings of the Board for three successive ordinary meetings;\n(c) who has in the opinion of the Government been guilty of any misconduct or neglect of duty or has so abused his position as to render his continuance as member detrimental to the interests of the Board or of the general public, or is otherwise unfit to become a member;\n(d) who has refused to act or has become incapable of acting:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 6 }, { "number": "8", "title": "8. Vacancy to be filled as early as practicable.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 7 }, { "number": "9", "title": "9. Proceedings presumed to be good and valid.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 8 }, { "number": "10", "title": "10. Temporary absence of members.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 9 }, { "number": "11", "title": "11. Leave of absence for Chairman.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 10 }, { "number": "12", "title": "12. Officers and other employees of Board.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 11 }, { "number": "13", "title": "13. Conditions of service of officers and other employees of Board.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 12 }, { "number": "14", "title": "14. Promotions and punishments of Officers and other employees of Board.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 13 }, { "number": "15", "title": "15. Service regulations.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) fixing the salary and allowances and conditions of service of the Secretary, Housing Engineer, Chief Accounts Officer and other officers and employees of the Board;\n(b) fixing the amount and nature of security to be furnished by any officer or other employee from whom it may be deemed expedient to require security;\n(c) for regulating the grant of leave of absence, leave allowances and acting allowances to the officers and other employees of the Board:\n(d) for establishing and maintaining a provident fund, for compelling all or any of the officers or employees other than the employees of the Central Government or State Government in respect of whom a contribution is paid under section 120 to subscribe to the fund at such rates and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, and for paying into the said fund such portion of the contribution of the Board in such manner as the Government may determine;\n(e) for determining the conditions under which the officers and other employees or any of them shall on retirement receive pension, gratuities and compassionate allowances and the amount of such pensions, gratuities and compassionate allowances.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 14 }, { "number": "16", "title": "16. Control and delegation by Chairman.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter - III\nConduct of business of Board and Committees", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 15 }, { "number": "17", "title": "17. Meetings of Boards.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) an ordinary meeting shall be held at least once every month;\n(b) the Chairman may, whenever he thinks fit, call for special meetings;\n(c) every meeting shall be presided over by the Chairman and in his absence by any member chosen by the members present at the meeting to preside for the said occasion;\n(d) all questions at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting, and in the case of an equality of votes, the Chairman, or in his absence, the person presiding, shall have and exercise a casting vote;\n(e) the minutes of the meetings shall be recorded in a book to be provided for the purpose and a copy of the minutes shall be forwarded to the Government within seven days of approval of the minutes;\n(f) the remarks, if any, of the Government on the minutes of the meetings of the Board so received shall be communicated to the Board within two weeks from the date of receipt of such minutes, and if no remarks are communicated, it shall be deemed that the Government have no remarks to offer on the minutes.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 16 }, { "number": "18", "title": "18. Temporary association of persons with Board for particular purposes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 17 }, { "number": "19", "title": "19. Appointment and functions of Committees.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 18 }, { "number": "20", "title": "20. Members of Board or Committees or persons associated with Board not to take part in proceedings in which they are personally all interested.", "chapter": "part in", "content": "(a) has, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any partner, any such share or interest as is described in sub-section (1) of section 6 in respect of any matter, or\n(b) has acted professionally, in relation to any matter on behalf of any person having therein any such share or interest as aforesaid, shall not vote or take part in any proceedings of the Board or any committee relating to such matter.\n(i) he shall at a meeting, relating to such area, of the Board or any committee inform the person presiding of the nature of such interest; and\n(ii) he shall not take part in any proceedings relating to such area at a meeting of the Board or any committee.\nChapter-IV\nPowers of Board and Chairman to incur expenditure on schemes and enter into contracts", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 19 }, { "number": "21", "title": "21. Powers of Board and Chairman to incur expenditure.", "chapter": null, "content": "(1) by the Chairman, in case such expenditure does not exceed [three lakh rupees] ; and\n(2) by the Board, in other cases:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 20 }, { "number": "22", "title": "22. Powers of Board and Chairman to approve estimates.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 21 }, { "number": "23", "title": "23. Emergency powers of Chairman.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) he shall not act under this section in contravention of any direction of the Board or the Government prohibiting the execution of any particular work or the doing of any particular act; and\n(b) he shall report the action taken by him under this section and the reasons therefor to the Board at its next meeting and shall also submit a copy of his report to the Government, and the Board or the Government may issue such directions as it deems fit on such report.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 22 }, { "number": "24", "title": "24. Power to make contracts.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 23 }, { "number": "25", "title": "25. Agreements and security deposits.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 24 }, { "number": "26", "title": "26. Further provisions as to execution of contracts and agreements.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 25 }, { "number": "27", "title": "27. Delegation of powers of Board to sanction contracts.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter - V\nHousing, improvement or building schemes", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 26 }, { "number": "28", "title": "28. Power of the Board to undertake housing, improvement or building schemes and incur expenditure.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 27 }, { "number": "29", "title": "29. Matters to be provided for in housing, improvement or building schemes.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the acquisition by purchase, exchange, or otherwise of any property necessary for or affected by the execution of the scheme;\n(b) the laying or re-laying out of any land comprised in the scheme;\n(c) the distribution or re-distribution of sites belonging to owners of the property comprised in the scheme;\n(d) the closure or demolition of dwellings or portions of dwellings unfit for human habitation;\n(e) the demolition of obstructive buildings or portion of buildings;\n(f) the construction and reconstruction of any type of buildings, their maintenance and preservation;\n(g) the sale, lease or exchange of any property comprised in the scheme;\n(h) the construction and alteration of roads, streets, back lanes, bridges, culverts and causeways;\n(i) the draining, water-supply and lighting of the streets included in the scheme;\n(j) the provision of open parks, playing fields and open spaces for the benefit of any area comprised in the scheme or any adjoining area and the enlargement of existing parks, playing fields, open spaces and approaches;\n(k) the provision of sanitary arrangements required for the area comprised in the scheme, including conservation and prevention of injury or contamination to rivers or other sources and means of water supply;\n(l) the provision of accommodation for any class of inhabitants;\n(m) the provision of facilities for communication and transport;\n(n) the collection of such information and statistics as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act;\n(o) the reclamation or reservation of lands for market, gardens, playing fields and afforestation;\n(p) the provision of schools, parks, dispensaries, hospitals, swimming pools, cinema houses, restaurants, shops, markets, fuel depots, laundries, hair dressing saloons and other amenities; and\n(q) any other matter for which, in the opinion of the Government, it is expedient to make provision with a view to providing housing accommodation and for the improvement of any area comprised in the scheme or of any adjoining area for the general efficiency of the scheme.\nExplanation:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 28 }, { "number": "30", "title": "30. Types of housing, improvement or building schemes.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) a housing accommodation scheme;\n(b) a rebuilding scheme;\n(c) a rehousing or rehabilitation scheme;\n(d) a city or town or village expansion scheme;\n(e) a street scheme;\n(f) a deferred street scheme;\n(g) a land development scheme; and\n(h) a general improvement scheme.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 29 }, { "number": "31", "title": "31. Housing accommodation scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 30 }, { "number": "32", "title": "32. Rebuilding scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the reservation of roads, streets, lanes and open spaces and the enlargement of the existing roads, streets, lanes and open spaces to such extent as may be necessary for the purposes of the scheme;\n(b) the re-laying out of the sites of the area upon roads, streets, lanes and open spaces so reserved or enlarged;\n(c) the payment of compensation in respect of any such reservation or enlargement, and the formation of roads, streets, lanes and open spaces so reserved or enlarged;\n(d) the reconstruction, alteration or demolition of the existing buildings and their appurtenances by the owners, or by the Board in default of the owners, and the erection of buildings in accordance with the scheme by the said owners, or by the Board in default of the owners, upon the sites as defined under the scheme;\n(e) the advance to the owners, upon such terms and conditions as to interest, sinking fund and other matters as may be provided for under the scheme, of such sums as may be necessary to assist them to reconstruct or alter existing buildings or to erect new buildings in accordance with the scheme; and\n(f) the acquisition by the Board of any site or building comprised in the area included in the scheme.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 31 }, { "number": "33", "title": "33. Rehousing or rehabilitation Scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) are displaced by the execution of any housing, improvement or building scheme sanctioned under this Act, or\n(b) are likely to be displaced by the execution of any housing, improvement or building scheme which it is intended to frame under this Act, or\n(c) cannot be accommodated in any scheme area, the Board may frame a rehousing scheme for the construction, maintenance and management of such number of dwelling houses and shops as may be required, or may frame a rehabilitation scheme for providing such number of open plots with roads, streets and open spaces as may be necessary.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 32 }, { "number": "34", "title": "34. City, town or village expansion schemes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 33 }, { "number": "35", "title": "35. Street Scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) providing building sites, or\n(b) remedying defective ventilation, or\n(c) creating new or improving existing means of communication and facilities for traffic, or\n(d) affording better facilities for conservancy,\n(a) the acquisition of any land which, in the opinion of the Board, is necessary for the street scheme;\n(b) the re-laying out of all or any of the lands so acquired, including the construction and reconstruction of buildings by the Board or by persons authorised by the Board in that behalf, and the laying out, construction and alteration of streets and thoroughfares;\n(c) the draining, water-supply and lighting of streets and thoroughfares so laid out, constructed or altered;\n(d) the raising, lowering or reclaiming of any land vested in, or to be acquired, by the Board;\n(e) the provision of open spaces for the better ventilation of the area comprised in the scheme; and\n(f) the acquisition of any land adjoining any street thoroughfare or open space to be formed under the scheme.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 34 }, { "number": "36", "title": "36. Deferred street scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the acquisition of the whole or any part of any property lying within the street alignment within the time limit specified in the Scheme which may be extended by the Board:\n(b) the re-laying out of all or any such property including the construction and reconstruction of building by the Board or by any other person and the formation and alignment of the street;\n(c) the draining, water-supply and lighting of the streets so formed or altered.\n(a) no person shall, except with the written permission of the Board, erect, re-erect, add to or alter any building or wall so as to make the same project into the specified alignment of the street;\n(b) if the Board fails to acquire or to institute proceedings for the acquisition of any property within the specified alignment of any street and within the time limit specified in the scheme or extended by it, the owner of such property may, at any time thereafter, give the Board notice requiring it to acquire the same or to institute proceedings for the acquisition of such property before the expiration of six months from the date of such notice and thereupon the Board shall acquire, or institute such proceedings and acquire, the property accordingly, and if the Board fails to do so, it shall pay reasonable compensation to the owner for any damage sustained by him in consequence of such failure;\n(c) before instituting proceedings to acquire any property lying within a specified alignment of the street other than property regarding which it has received a notice under clause (b), the Board shall give six months' notice to the owner of its intention to acquire such property.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 35 }, { "number": "37", "title": "37. Land development scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 36 }, { "number": "38", "title": "38. General improvement scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) that in any area, any buildings used or likely to be used as dwelling houses are unfit for human habitation, or\n(b) that danger to the health of the inhabitants of buildings in any area, or to buildings in the neighbourhood of such area, is likely to be caused by-\n(i) the narrowness, closeness, or bad arrangement or condition of streets or buildings or groups of buildings in such area, or\n(ii) the want of light, air, ventilation or proper conveniences in such area, or\n(iii) any other sanitary defects in such area, the Board may frame a general improvement scheme in respect of such area.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 37 }, { "number": "39", "title": "39. Preparation, publication and transmission of notice as to housing, improvement or building schemes.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the boundaries of the area comprised in the scheme, and\n(b) the place or places at which particulars of the scheme, a map of the area, and details of the land which it is proposed to acquire and of the land in regard to which it is proposed to recover betterment charges, may be seen at reasonable hours, and shall have the same published in the Official Gazette and also have a copy sent to the local authority concerned.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 38 }, { "number": "40", "title": "40. Transmission to Board of representation by the concerned local authority as to housing, improvement or building scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 39 }, { "number": "41", "title": "41. Abandonment, modification or sanction of a housing, improvement or building scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) in every case in which the modification affects the boundaries of the area comprised in the scheme or involves the acquisition of any land not previously proposed to be acquired; and\n(b) in every other case, where the modification is, in the opinion of the Board, of sufficient importance to require republication.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 40 }, { "number": "42", "title": "42. Publication of sanction of housing, improvement of building schemes.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) where no appeal is preferred under sub-section (3), on and from the expiry of the said Fifteen days referred to in that sub-section; and\n(b) where such appeal is preferred, on and from the date of the decision of the Government on such appeal.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 41 }, { "number": "43", "title": "43. Board to execute housing, improvement or building scheme soon after sanction.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 42 }, { "number": "44", "title": "44. Variation of housing, improvement or building schemes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 43 }, { "number": "45", "title": "45. Transfer to Board for purposes of housing, improvement or building scheme of building, or land vested in local authority.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 44 }, { "number": "46", "title": "46. Power of Board to turn or close public street vested in it.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 45 }, { "number": "47", "title": "47. Transferring streets laid out or altered and open spaces provided by Board under a housing, improvement or building scheme.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) any such road or street, laid out or altered by the Board has been duly levelled, metalled, flagged, channelled, sewered and drained in the manner provided in the scheme sanctioned by the Board or the Government under section 41,\n(b) lamp posts and other apparatus necessary for the lighting of such streets have been provided by the Board, and\n(c) water and other sanitary conveniences have been duly provided in such streets.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 46 }, { "number": "48", "title": "48. Prevention or restriction of traffic in street vested in Board, during progress of work.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 47 }, { "number": "49", "title": "49. Provision of facilities when work is executed by Board in public streets vested in it.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the passage or diversion of traffic;\n(b) securing access to all premises approached from such street; and\n(c) any drainage, water supply, or means of lighting, which is interrupted by reason of the execution of the work.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 48 }, { "number": "50", "title": "50. Other duties of Board.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) provide technical advice to the Government and scrutinize projects under housing, improvement or building schemes when required by Government to do so;\n(b) undertake research on various problems connected with housing in general and find out in particular the economical methods of constructing houses suited to local conditions;\n(c) undertake comprehensive surveys of problems of housing;\n(d) do all things necessary for-\n(i) unification, simplification and standardisation of building materials;\n(ii) encouraging pre-fabrication and mass production of house components;\n(iii) organising and running workshops, garages and stores for manufacture, sale, stock-piling and supply of building materials, required for housing, improvement or building schemes;\n(iv) securing a steady and sufficient supply of workmen trained in the work of construction of buildings.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 49 }, { "number": "51", "title": "51. Power of Government to call for the records of Board and to modify housing, improvement or building schemes.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 50 }, { "number": "52", "title": "52. Power to exempt.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter VI\nAcquisition and disposal of land", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 51 }, { "number": "53", "title": "53. Power to purchase or lease by agreement.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 52 }, { "number": "54", "title": "54. Betterment charges.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 53 }, { "number": "55", "title": "55. Notice to persons liable for betterment charges.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 54 }, { "number": "56", "title": "56. Agreement for payment of betterment charges.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 55 }, { "number": "57", "title": "57. Recovery of betterment charges.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 56 }, { "number": "58", "title": "58. Power to dispose of land.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 57 }, { "number": "59", "title": "59. Disputes regarding reconstitution of plots.", "chapter": null, "content": "(b) If the person is dissatisfied with the decision of the Board in the matter, he may inform the Board accordingly within one month.\n(c) The Board shall within thirty days thereof refer the matter to the Government.\nChapter - VII\nPower to evict persons from Board premises", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 58 }, { "number": "60", "title": "60. Appointment of competent authorities.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 59 }, { "number": "61", "title": "61. Power to evict certain persons from Board premises.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) that the person authorised to occupy any Board premises has-\n(i) not paid rent lawfully due from him in respect of such premises for a period of more than two months, or\n(ii) sub-let, without the permission of the Board, the whole or any part of such premises, or\n(iii) otherwise acted in contravention of any of the terms, express or implied, under which he is authorised to occupy such premises, or\n(b) that any person is in unauthorised occupation of any Board premises,\n(i) by post, or\n(ii) by affixing a copy of it on the outer door or some other conspicuous part of such premises, or\n(iii) in such other manner as may be prescribed, order that person as well as any other person who may be in occupation of the whole or any part of the premises, to vacate them within one month from the date of the service of the notice:\nExplanation.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 60 }, { "number": "62", "title": "62. Power to recover rent or damages as arrears of land revenue.", "chapter": null, "content": "(i) by post, or\n(ii) by affixing a copy of it on the outer door or some other conspicuous part of such premises, or\n(iii) in such other manner as may be prescribed, order that person to pay the same within such time not being less than thirty days as may be specified in the notice and if such person refuses or fails to pay the arrears of rent within the time specified in the notice, such arrears may be recovered as arrears of land revenue.\n(i) by post,\n(ii) by affixing a copy of it on the outer door or some other conspicuous part of such premises, or\n(iii) in such other manner as may be prescribed, order that person to pay the damages within such time as may be specified in the notice and if any person refuses or fails to pay the damages, within the time specified in the notice, the damages may be recovered from him as arrears of land revenue.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 61 }, { "number": "63", "title": "63. Rent to be recovered by deductions from salary or wages in certain cases.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 62 }, { "number": "64", "title": "64. Appeal.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter VIII\nFinance, Accounts and Audit", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 63 }, { "number": "65", "title": "65. Board's Fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "Explanation:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 64 }, { "number": "66", "title": "66. Subventions and loans to Board.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 65 }, { "number": "67", "title": "67. Power of Board to borrow and lend.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 66 }, { "number": "68", "title": "68. Guarantee by Government of loans.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 67 }, { "number": "67", "title": "69. Repayment of loans taken under section 67.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) from a sinking fund established under section 70 in respect of the loan; or\n(b) by paying equal yearly or half-yearly instalments of principal or principal and interest, throughout the said period; or\n(c) if the Board has, before borrowing money on debentures, reserved, by public notice, a power to pay off the loan by periodical instalments and to select by lot the particular debenture to be discharged at particular periods, then, by paying such instalments at such periods; or\n(d) from money borrowed for the purpose; or\n(e) partly from the sinking fund established under section 70 in respect of the loan and partly from money borrowed for the purpose.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 68 }, { "number": "70", "title": "70. Establishment and maintenance of sinking fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 69 }, { "number": "71", "title": "71. Power to discontinue payments into sinking fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 70 }, { "number": "72", "title": "72. Investment of sinking fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) in Government securities; or\n(b) in securities guaranteed by the Central Government or a State Government.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 71 }, { "number": "73", "title": "73. Annual examination of sinking fund.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 72 }, { "number": "74", "title": "74. Estimates of income and expenditure to be laid annually before Board.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 73 }, { "number": "75", "title": "75. Sanction of Board to estimates.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 74 }, { "number": "76", "title": "76. Approval of Government to estimates.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) approve the estimate; or\n(b) disallow the estimate or any portion thereof and return the estimate to the Board for amendment.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 75 }, { "number": "77", "title": "77. Supplementary estimate.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 76 }, { "number": "78", "title": "78. Adherence to estimate and maintenance of closing balance.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) refund of moneys belonging to contractors or other persons held in deposit, and of moneys collected by, or credited to, the Board by mistake;\n(b) payments due under a decree or order of a Court;\n(c) sums payable under a compromise of any suit or other legal proceedings or claim effected under this Act;\n(d) sums payable under this Act by way of compensations; and\n(e) payments required to meet any emergency.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 77 }, { "number": "79", "title": "79. Definition of cost of management.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the allowances and remuneration of the Chairman and the members of the Board;\n(b) the salaries, fees and allowances and contributions paid in respect of officers and other employees of the Board, except employees who are paid by the day or whose pay is charged to temporary work; and\n(c) all office expenses incurred by the Board.\nExplanation:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": true, "sort_order": 78 }, { "number": "80", "title": "80. Capital account and revenue account.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 79 }, { "number": "81", "title": "81. Credits to capital account.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) all sums (except interest) received by way of betterment fees under this Act;\n(b) all moneys received on account of loans taken by the Board in pursuance of this Act;\n(c) all moneys received as grants by the Board for purposes of this Act from the Government;\n(d) all moneys received by the Board on account of repayment of loans and advances granted under sections 32 and 67;\n(e) the proceeds of the sale of any land belonging to the Board which was purchased out of any loans or grants;\n(f) where any land was purchased out of advance from the revenue account the portion of the proceeds of the sale of such land which remains after crediting to the revenue account the amount of such advance;\n(g) the proceeds of the sale of any movable property (including securities for money invested from the capital account) belonging to the Board;\n(h) all lumpsums received from any Government in aid of the capital account;\n(i) all moneys received by the Board in connection with leases;\n(j) all sums, if any, which the Government directs under sub-section (2) of section 84 to be credited to the capital account; and\n(k) all moneys realised from the sale of securities by direction of the Government under section 85.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 80 }, { "number": "82", "title": "82. Application of capital account.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) meeting all costs of framing and executing housing, improvement or building schemes;\n(b) meeting the cost of acquiring lands for carrying out any of the purposes of this Act;\n(c) meeting the cost of constructing buildings required for carrying out any of the purposes of this Act;\n(d) the repayment of loans from money borrowed in pursuance of this Act;\n(e) granting of loans and advances under sections 32 and 67;\n(f) making payments in pursuance of section 118 otherwise than for interests or for expenses of maintenance or working;\n(g) making or contributing towards the cost of surveys in pursuance of section 116;\n(h) meeting such proportion of the cost of management as may be directed by the Board; and\n(i) temporarily making good the deficit, if any, in the revenue account at the end of any year.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 81 }, { "number": "83", "title": "83. Credits to revenue account.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) all interest received in pursuance of section 56 or section 57;\n(b) all annually recurring sums received from the Government in aid of the funds of the Board;\n(c) all compensation received by the Board under section 102;\n(d) all rents of land vested in the Board;\n(e) all rents of buildings vested in the Board;\n(f) all interest of loans and advances granted by the Board under sections 32 and 67; and\n(g) all other receipts by the Board which are not required by section 81 to be credited to the capital account.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 82 }, { "number": "84", "title": "84. Application of revenue account.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) payment of all charges or payments towards interest or sinking fund due on account of any loan taken in pursuance of this Act, and all other charges incurred in connection with such loans;\n(b) payment of all sums due from the Board in respect of rates and taxes imposed by the local authority concerned, upon the land vested in the Board;\n(c) payment of cost, if any, of maintaining a separate establishment for the collection of rents and other proceeds of land vested in the Board;\n(d) payment of all sums which the Government may direct to be paid to any auditor under section 91;\n(e) payment of the cost of the management excluding such proportion thereof as may be debited to the capital account under clause (h) of section 82;\n(f) payment of all other sums due from the Board, other than those which are required by section 82, to be disbursed from the capital account.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 83 }, { "number": "85", "title": "85. Power to direct sale of securities in which any surplus of the revenue accounts is invested.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 84 }, { "number": "86", "title": "86. Advance from revenue account to capital account.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 85 }, { "number": "87", "title": "87. Advance from capital account to revenue account.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 86 }, { "number": "88", "title": "88. Submission of abstracts of accounts to Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 87 }, { "number": "89", "title": "89. Audit of accounts.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 88 }, { "number": "90", "title": "90. Powers of auditor.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) by summons in writing require production of any document, the perusal or examination of which he believes necessary for the elucidation of the accounts;\n(b) by summons in writing require any person who has the custody or control of any such document or who is accountable therefor to appear in person before him; and\n(c) require any person so appearing to make and sign a declaration with respect to such document or to answer any question or to prepare and furnish any statement relating thereto.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 89 }, { "number": "91", "title": "91. Remuneration of auditor.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 90 }, { "number": "92", "title": "92. Reports and information to be furnished by auditor to Board.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) report to the Board and to the Government any material impropriety or irregularity which he may observe in the expenditure, or in the recovery of moneys due to the Board, or in the accounts;\n(b) furnish to the Board such information as it may require concerning the progress of his audit;\n(c) report to the Chairman any loss or waste of money or either property owned by or vested in the Board caused by neglect or misconduct, with the names of persons directly or indirectly responsible for such loss or waste; and\n(d) submit to the Chairman a final statement of audited accounts, together with a report on the result of the audit and duplicate copies thereof to the Government, within a period of three months from the end of the year or within such further period as the Government may allow in the behalf.\n(b) The auditor shall state in writing the reason for his decision in respect of every disallowance, surcharge or charge and furnish a copy thereof by registered post to the person against whom it is made.\n(c) If the person to whom a copy of the decision is so furnished refuses to receive it, he shall be deemed to have been duly furnished with the copy, within the meaning of clause (b); and the period of fourteen days fixed in sub-section (4) and (5) shall be calculated from the date of such refusal.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 91 }, { "number": "93", "title": "93. Auditor's report to be sent to each member and considered by Board.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 92 }, { "number": "94", "title": "94. Board to remedy defects pointed out by auditor.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 93 }, { "number": "95", "title": "95. Statements of accounts and audit report to be forwarded to Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) cause the statement of accounts of the Board together with the audit report thereon to be laid annually before the Legislative Assembly of Goa, Daman and Diu; and\n(b) cause the statement of accounts of the Board and the audit report to be published in the prescribed manner and make available copies thereof on sale at a reasonable price.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 94 }, { "number": "96", "title": "96. Valuation of assets and liabilities of Board.", "chapter": null, "content": "Chapter IX\nPenalties and procedure", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 95 }, { "number": "97", "title": "97. Penalty for removing bar, chain or post.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 96 }, { "number": "98", "title": "98. Penalty for building within street alignment or building line without permission.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) with fine which may extend, in the case of a wall or masonry building, to five hundred rupees and, in any other case, to fifty rupees; and\n(b) with further fine which may extend, in the case of a wall or masonry building, to one hundred rupees and, in any other case, to ten rupees for each day after the first during which the projection continues.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 97 }, { "number": "99", "title": "99. Penalty for failure to comply with requisition made by auditor.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees;\n(b) in case of a continuing failure, with further fine which may extend to fifty rupees for each day after the first during which the failure continues.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 98 }, { "number": "100", "title": "100. Penalty for obstructing contractor or removing mark.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) obstructs or molests any person with whom the Chairman has entered into a contract on behalf of the Board, in the performance or execution by such person of his duty or of anything which he is empowered or required to do by virtue of or in consequence of this Act or any rule or regulation made thereunder; or\n(b) removes any mark set up for the purpose of indicating any level or direction necessary to the execution of works authorised by this Act or any rule or regulation made or scheme sanctioned thereunder, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 99 }, { "number": "101", "title": "101. Penalty for breach of the provisions of the Act.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees; and\n(b) in case of a continuing contravention, with further fine which may extend to fifty rupees for each day after the first during which the contravention continues.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 100 }, { "number": "102", "title": "102. Compensation to be paid by offenders.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 101 }, { "number": "103", "title": "103. Punishment for acquiring share or interest in contract, with Board.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 102 }, { "number": "104", "title": "104. Cognizance and trial of offences.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 103 }, { "number": "105", "title": "105. Duty of Police Officers.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to co-operate with the [Secretary] for carrying into effect and enforcing the provisions of this Act or any rule enforcing the provisions of this Act or any rule or regulation made thereunder;\n(b) to communicate without delay to the proper officer or servant of the Board any information which he receives of a design to commit or of the commission of any offence against this Act or any rule made thereunder; and\n(c) to assist the [Secretary] or any officer or other employee of the Board reasonably demanding his aid for the lawful exercise of any power vesting in the [Secretary] or in such officer or other employee under this Act or any rule made thereunder.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 104 }, { "number": "106", "title": "106. Arrest of offenders.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 105 }, { "number": "107", "title": "107. Powers of [Secretary] as to institution and composition of legal proceedings.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) institute, defend or withdraw from legal proceedings under this Act or any rules or regulations made thereunder;\n(b) compound any offence against this Act or any rules or regulations made thereunder which, under any law for the time being in force, may lawfully be compounded;\n(c) admit, compromise or withdraw any claim made under this Act or any rules or regulations made thereunder; and\n(d) obtain such legal advice and assistance as he may think it necessary or expedient to obtain, or as may be desired by the Board to obtain, for any of the purposes referred to in the foregoing clauses or for securing the lawful exercise or discharge of any power or duty vested in or imposed upon the Board or any officer or other employee of the Board.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 106 }, { "number": "108", "title": "108. Protection of action taken in good faith.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 107 }, { "number": "109", "title": "109. Notice of suit against Board.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 108 }, { "number": "110", "title": "110. Proof of consent of Board or Chairman or officer or other employee of Board.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the Board or the Chairman, or\n(b) any officer or other employee of the Board, a written document signed by the Chairman, in case of item (a) and by the said officer or other employee in the case of item (b), conveying or setting forth such approval, sanction, consent, concurrence, declaration, opinion or satisfaction, shall be sufficient evidence of such approval, sanction, consent, concurrence, declaration, opinion or satisfaction.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 109 }, { "number": "111", "title": "111. Power of [Secretary] to direct removal of unauthorised erection, within street alignment.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 110 }, { "number": "112", "title": "112. Power of Board to pay compensation.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 111 }, { "number": "113", "title": "113. Public notices how to be made known.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 112 }, { "number": "114", "title": "114. Stamping signature on notices or bills.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 113 }, { "number": "115", "title": "115. Service how to be effected.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) by giving or tendering such document to such person; or\n(b) if such person is not found, by leaving such document at his last known place of abode, or by giving or tendering the same to some adult member or servant of his family;\n(c) if his address elsewhere is known, by forwarding such document to him by registered post under cover bearing the said address; or\n(d) if none of the means aforesaid be available, by causing a copy of such document to be affixed on some conspicuous part of the building or land, if any, to which the document relates.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 114 }, { "number": "116", "title": "116. Power to make surveys, or contribute towards their cost.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) cause the survey of any land to be made, whenever it considers that a survey is necessary or expedient for carrying out any of the purposes of this Act; or\n(b) contribute towards the cost of any such survey made by any other local authority.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 115 }, { "number": "117", "title": "117. Power of entry.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) to make any inspection, survey, measurement, valuation or inquiry,\n(b) to take levels,\n(c) to dig or bore into the sub-soil,\n(d) to set out boundaries and intended lines of work,\n(e) to mark such levels, boundaries and lines by placing marks and cutting trenches, or\n(f) to do any other thing, whenever it is necessary to do so for any of the purposes of this Act or any rule or regulation made or scheme sanctioned thereunder or any scheme which the Board intends to frame thereunder:\n(a) no such entry shall be made between sunset and sunrise;\n(b) no dwelling house, and no public building or hut which is used as a dwelling place, shall be so entered, except with the consent of the occupier thereof, without giving the said occupier at least twenty-four hours, previous written notice of the intention to make such entry;\n(c) sufficient notice shall, in every instance, be given even when any premises may otherwise be entered without notice, to enable the inmates of any apartment appropriated to women to remove themselves to some part of the premises where their privacy will not be disturbed;\n(d) 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 premises entered.\nChapter X\nMiscellaneous", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 116 }, { "number": "118", "title": "118. Powers of Board for facilitating movement of the population.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) subject to any condition it may think fit to impose-\n(i) guarantee the payment, from the funds at its disposal, of such sums as it may think fit, by way of expenditure on the construction, maintenance or working of means of locomotion; or\n(ii) make such payments as it may think fit from the said funds, by way of subsidy to persons undertaking to provide, maintain and work means of locomotion; or\n(b) either singly or in combination with any other person, construct, maintain and work any means of locomotion, under the provisions of any law applicable thereto; or\n(c) construct or widen, strengthen or otherwise improve bridges:", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 117 }, { "number": "119", "title": "119. Members, officers and other employees of Board and committees deemed to be public servants.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 118 }, { "number": "120", "title": "120. Contributions towards leave, allowances and pensions of employees of the Central Government or a State Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 119 }, { "number": "121", "title": "121. Board and [Secretary] to exercise powers and functions of local authority.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 120 }, { "number": "122", "title": "122. Supply of documents and information to Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 121 }, { "number": "123", "title": "123. Submission of administration report to Government.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 122 }, { "number": "124", "title": "124. Power of Government to give directions to Board and local authorities.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 123 }, { "number": "125", "title": "125. Supersession of Board.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the Chairman and all the members of the Board shall, as from the date of supersession vacate their offices as such;\n(b) all the powers and duties which may, by or under the provisions of this Act, be exercised or performed by or on behalf of the Board and the Chairman, shall during the period of supersession be exercised and performed by such authority or person as the Government may direct;\n(c) all funds and other property vested in the Board shall, during the period of supersession, vest in the authority or person referred to in clause (b); and\n(d) all liabilities, legally subsisting and enforceable against the Board, shall be enforceable against the authority or person referred to in clause (b) to the extent of the funds and properties vested in it or him.\n(a) extend the period of supersession for such further period as it considers necessary; or\n(b) reconstitute the Board in the manner provided in section 4.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 124 }, { "number": "126", "title": "126. Dissolution of Board.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) the Chairman and all the members of the Board shall, as from the date of dissolution vacate their offices as such;\n(b) all the powers and duties which may, by or under the provisions of this Act, be exercised and performed by or on behalf of the Board and the Chairman shall, as from the date of dissolution, be exercised and performed by the Government or such authority or person as it may appoint in this behalf;\n(c) all funds and other property vested in the Board shall vest in the Government; and\n(d) all liabilities, legally subsisting and enforceable against the Board, shall be enforceable against the Government to the extent of the funds and properties vested in it.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 125 }, { "number": "127", "title": "127. Power to remove difficulties.", "chapter": null, "content": "", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 126 }, { "number": "128", "title": "128. Power to make rules.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) remuneration and allowances of the Chairman and other members under section 5;\n(b) leave of absence for the Chairman under section 11;\n(c) control and revision by the Chairman under section 16;\n(d) provisions as to execution of contracts and agreements under section 26;\n(e) delegation of powers of the Board to sanction contracts under section 27;\n(f) form of notice and the period for acceptance of assessment under section 55;\n(g) disposal of land under section 58;\n(h) other manner of service of notice under sections 61 and 62;\n(i) manner of assessment of damages under section 62;\n(j) maximum sum to be deposited in the manner of operation of accounts under subsection (5) of section 65;\n(k) conditions and limitations to be laid down under section 67;\n(l) forms and details relating to estimates of income and expenditure under section 74;\n(m) form and manner of abstracts of accounts to be submitted to the Government under section 88;\n(n) any other matter which is required to be or may be prescribed.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 127 }, { "number": "129", "title": "129. Power to make regulations.", "chapter": null, "content": "(a) conditions of service of officer and other employees of the Board under section 13.\n(b) service regulations under section 15;\n(c) day, time, place, notice, management and adjournment of meetings of Board under section 17;\n(d) manner in which and the purposes for which persons may be associated with the Board under section 18;\n(e) matters relating to appointment and functions of committees under section 19;\n(f) any matter which is required to be, or may be, laid down by regulations.", "footnote": "", "is_definition": false, "sort_order": 128 } ], "metadata": { "Act ID": "goa083", "Act Number": "(Act No 12 of 1968)", "Enactment Date": "", "Act Year": "1968", "Short Title": "The Goa, Housing Board Act, 1968", "Type": "STATE", "Location": "Goa" }, "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19" }