Goa (Regulation of Land Development and Building Construction) Act, 2008

No: 6 Dated: May, 05 2008

Goa (Regulation of Land Development and Building Construction) Act, 2008

An act to provide for the regulation and control on building construction and land development in the State of Goa and other incidental and ancillary matters connected therewith.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Goa in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

1. Short title, extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Goa (Regulation of Land Development and Building Construction) Act, 2008.

(2) It shall extend to the whole of the State of Goa.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from the 2nd day of September, 2007.

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

(a) “building construction” shall have the same meaning assigned to:-

(i) “building operations” in clause (5) of section 2 of the Goa Town and Country Planning Act, 1974 (Act 21 of 1975);

(ii) “building” in clause (2) of section 2 of the Goa Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (Act 14 of 1994);

(iii) “to construct a building” in sub-section (1) of section 184 of Goa Municipalities Act, 1968 (Act 7 of 1969);

(iv) “building” in clause (8) of section 5 of the City of Panaji Corporation Act, 2002 (Act 1 of 2003); 

(b) “Corporation” means the Corporation of the City of Panaji incorporated under section 7 of the City of Panaji Corporation Act, 2002 (Act 1of 2003) or any other Corporation established under the provisions of any Law enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Goa;

(c) “engineering operations” includes the formation or the laying out of means of access to a road or the laying out of means of water supply, drainage, sewerage or of electricity cables or lines or of telephone lines;

(d) “Government” means the Government of Goa; 

(e) “land development” with it’s grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means the carrying out of building, engineering, change on the face of land, mining, quarrying or other operations in or on or over or under the land, or the making of any material change in any building or land, or in the use of any building or land, and includes sub-division or amalgamation of land;

(f) “Municipal Council” means a Municipal Council established under section 8 of the Goa Municipalities Act, 1968 (Act 7 of 1969);

(g) “notification” means a notification published in the Official Gazette;

(h) “Official Gazette” means the Official Gazette of the Government; 

(i) “Panchayat” means a Panchayat notified by the Government under sub-section (2) of section 3 of the Goa Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (Act 14 of 1994);

(j) “Planning and Development Authority” means Planning and Development Authority constituted under section 20 of the Goa Town and Country Planning Act, 1974 (Act 21 of 1975);

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

(l) “regulations” means the regulations framed under this Act; (m) “State” means the State of Goa. 

3. Land development and building construction.- (1) All land development and building construction in the State shall, subject to the provisions of section 9, be in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules and regulations made under the provisions of this Act.

(2) Any law in force in the State governing land development and building construction, in so far as it is inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or the rules and regulations made under the provisions of this Act, shall stand repealed.

Explanation.- In this section, unless the context otherwise requires, “law” includes any Ordinance, Orders, bye-laws, rules, regulations or notifications.