GOA LEGISLATIVE DIPLOMA NO. 2070 DATED 15-4-1961 (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2025

Act No. 16 of 2025

26th August, 2025

An Act further to amend the Legislative Diploma No. 2070 dated 15-4-1961, in its application to the State of Goa.

S.1 Short title and commencement

(1) This Act may be called the Goa Legislative Diploma No. 2070 dated 15-4-1961 (Amendment) Act, 2025.

(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

S.2 Insertion of new article 372-B

In the Legislative Diploma No. 2070 dated 15-4-1961, after article 372-A, the following article shall be inserted, namely:-

"372-B. Regularization of encroachment for unauthorized construction of dwelling house.-

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Code, the Goa Land Revenue Code, 1968 (Act 9 of 1969), the Goa Town and Country Planning Act, 1974 (Act 21 of 1975), the Goa Land (Prohibition on Construction) Act, 1995 (Goa Act No. 20 of 1995), the Goa (Regulation of Land Development and Building Construction) Act, 2008 (Goa Act 6 of 2008), the Goa Land Development and Building Construction Regulations, 2010, the Goa Municipalities Act, 1968 (Act 7 of 1969), the Goa Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (Goa Act 14 of 1994), the City of Panaji Corporation Act, 2002 (Goa Act 1 of 2003) or any other State law for the time being in force, where any person has carried out unauthorized construction of a dwelling house, before the 28th day of February, 2014, on a land belonging to