Goa Tourist Places (Protection and Maintenance) Act, 2001

No: 56 Dated: Sep, 05 2001

Goa Tourist Places (Protection and Maintenance) Act, 2001

An act to protect and maintain the tourist places from deterioration and erosion and preserve their tourism potential.

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

1. Short title, extent and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Goa Tourist Places (Protection and Maintenance) Act, 2001.

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

(3) It shall come into force at once.

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

(a) “competent authority” means the authority appointed under section 4 of this Act;

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

(c) “nuisance” includes any act of commission or omission or carrying on of any activity, process, operation including the operation of or plying of vessels or boats or timber, raft or any other floating object in any part of the sea, river or port which causes or is likely to cause injury, danger, annoyance to the sense of sight, smell or hearing or which is or may be dangerous to life or injurious to health or property and includes oil spillage; 

(d) “tourist place” means any place, site or location declared by the Government as tourist place under section 3 of this Act and shall include any land, monument, lake, river, beach or portion thereof;

(e) “tourism potentiality” means a tourist place where a person or group of persons including pilgrims are likely to visit.