Goa Information Technology Development Act, 2007

No: 10 Dated: Aug, 01 2007

Goa Information Technology Development Act, 2007

An act to make special provision for securing the orderly establishment of Integrated Information Technology Township/Information Technology Parks in the State of Goa, to assist generally in the organization thereof, and for that purpose to establish an Information Technology Development Corporation, and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Goa in the fifty-seventh year of the Republic of India as follows:-

CHAPTER I

Preliminary 

1. Short title, extent and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Goa Information Technology Development Act, 2007.

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

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from 25th November, 2006.

2. Definitions.— In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a) “amenity” includes road, supply of water or electricity, street lighting, drainage, sewage, conservancy and such other connivance as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify to be an amenity for the purposes of this Act;

(b) “building” means any structure or erection, or a part of a structure or erection, which is intended to be used for residential, industrial, commercial or other purposes, whether in actual use or not;

(c) “Collector” means the Collector of the district, and includes any Officer specially appointed by the Government to perform the functions of a Collector under this Act;

(d) “Corporation” means the Goa Information Technology Development Corporation established under section 3;

(e) “development” with its grammatical variations, means the carrying out of building, engineering, quarrying or other operations, in, on, over or under land, or the making of any material change on any building or land, and includes re-development, but does not include mining operations and “to develop” shall be construed accordingly;

(f) “engineering operation” include the formation or laying out of means of access to a road or the laying out of means of water supply;

(g) “Integrated IT Township/IT Parks” means any site selected by the Government where the Corporation shall develop plots, build factories other buildings and make them available for Integrated Information Technology Township/Information Technology Parks;

(h) “means of access” includes a road, wharf or any means of access, whether private or public, for vehicles or boats or for foot passengers;

(i) “premises” means any land or building or part of a building and includes- 

   (i) the garden, grounds and out-houses, if any, appertaining to such building or part of a building; and

  (ii) any fittings affixed to such building or part of a building for the more beneficial enjoyment thereof;

(j) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(k) the expression “land” and the expression “person interested” shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in section 3 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (1 of 1894);

(l) “Government” means the Government of Goa.