GOA REGULARISATION OF UNAUTHORIZED CONSTRUCTION (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2025

Act No. 17 of 2025

26th August, 2025

An Act further to amend the Goa Regularisation of Unauthorized Construction Act, 2016 (Goa Act 20 of 2016). Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Goa in the Seventy-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

S.1 Short title and commencement

(1) This Act may be called the Goa Regularisation of Unauthorized Construction (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 Amendment of Section 3

In the Goa Regularisation of Unauthorized Construction Act, 2016 (Goa Act 20 of 2016) (hereinafter referred to as the "principal Act"), in Section (3),-

• (i) in sub-section (1),-
  • (a) for clause (a), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:- "(a) any residential, commercial or residential cum commercial unauthorized construction in applicants own property, or in a property jointly held by the applicant with other co-owners.";
  • (b) for clause (c), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:- "(c) any unauthorized construction by the applicant in undivided property jointly held by a unit of family or families.";
  • (c) after the clause (e), the following clauses shall be inserted, namely:-
    • (f) any unauthorized construction of a dwelling house carried out on a land belonging to a Comunidade in respect of which the officer authorized under clause (1) of article 372-B of the Legislative Diploma No. 2
      

S.3 Insertion of new Section 6A

After Section 6 of the principal Act, the following Section shall be inserted, namely:-

"6A. Review of order.-

• (1) The authorized officer may either on his own motion or on application of any party interested, review any order passed by him or by any of his predecessors-in-office and pass such order in reference thereto as he thinks fit: Provided that the authorized officer shall before reviewing any order under this section, obtain the permission of the Collector.
• (2) No order shall be reviewed under this section without giving notice to the other party and no application for review of such order shall be entertained unless filed within a period of one year from the date of such order: Provided that the authorized officer shall not, on his own motion, review any order under this section after expiry of period of six months from the date of such order: Provided further that no application for review shall be entertained if an appeal against the said ord