GOA LEGISLATIVE DIPLOMA NO. 2070 DATED 15-4-1961 (SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT, 2001

Act No. 46 of 2001

29th June, 2001

An Act further to amend the Legislative Diploma No. 2070 dated 15-4-1961, in its application to the State of Goa. BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Goa in the Fifty-second Year of the Republic of India, as follows:--

S.1 Short title and commencement

(1) This Act may be called the Goa Legislative Diploma No. 2070 dated 15-4-1961 (Second Amendment) Act, 2001.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

S.2 Insertion of new Article

After Article 372 of the Legislative Diploma No. 2070 dated 15-4-1961 (hereinafter referred to as the "Code"), the following Article shall be inserted, namely:--

372-A. Regularisation of unauthorised occupation, wrongful possession, etc.--

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained, elsewhere in this Code, or any other law for the time being in force, or in any instrument, judgment, decree or order of any court or law, any person who is in unauthorised occupation of, or in wrongful possession of, or who has encroached upon, in or over, any land:--

• (a) vested in communidade, or
• (b) to the use or occupation of which he is not entitled or has ceased to be entitled, by reason of:
  • (i) any of the provisions of this Code, or
  • (ii) the expiry of the period of lease or termination of lease for breach of any of the conditions annexed to the tenure:

and has constructed, on or before 15-6-2000, a house, for