Goa Command Area Development Act, 1997

No: 27 Dated: Sep, 08 1997

Goa Command Area Development Act, 1997

AN ACT to provide for accelerated increase in agricultural and allied production in the State of Goa, through a programme of comprehensive and systematic development of command areas on scientific and modern lines, comprising measures for optimum use of land and water, prevention of land erosion and water logging, improvement of soil fertility and regulation of cropping pattern, and for proper maintenance and upkeep of irrigation systems in the State of Goa for ensuring maximum benefits to the cultivators under the command areas and for matters connected therewith.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Goa in the Forty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

CHAPTER - I

1. Short title, extent and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Goa Command Area Development Act, 1997.

(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Goa.

(3)It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different areas of the State of Goa.