The Goa Land Revenue Code, 1968
State Act of Goa ยท Act 9 of 196974 provisions
The enactment
| Long title | To consolidate and amend the Law relating to Land and Land Revenue in the State of Goa. |
|---|---|
| Type | Act |
| Citation | Act 9 of 1969 |
| Year | 1969 |
| Jurisdiction | State of Goa |
| Status | In force as published by the source |
| Provisions published | 74 |
| Subjects | property |
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- Section 1 Short title, extent and commencement
- Section 2 Definitions
- Section 3 Power to create, alter or abolish districts, sub-divisions, etc
- Section 4 Appointment of revenue and survey officers
- Section 5 Chief controlling authority in revenue matters
- Section 6 Function of the Collector and certain other revenue officers
- Section 6A Duties and Powers of Deputy Collector
- Section 7 Village accountant
- Section 8 Village officer to keep such records as may be prescribed
- Section 9 Settlement and survey officers
- Section 10 Subordination of revenue officers
- Section 11 Combination of offices
- Section 12 Notification of appointments
- Section 13 Seals
- Section 14 Title of Government to lands, etc
- Section 15 Extinction of rights of public and individuals in or over any public road, land or path not required for use of public
- Section 16 Rights to trees, forest, etc
- Section 17 Recovery of value of trees, etc., unauthorisedly appropriated
- Section 18 Lands may be assigned for special purposes, and when assigned, shall not be otherwise used without sanction of Collector
- Section 19 Recovering value of natural products unauthorisedly removed from certain lands
- Section 20 Classes of holders of land
- Section 21 Grant of land
- Section 22 Grant of alluvial land vesting in 22[***] Government
- Section 23 Disposal of intestate occupancies
- Section 24 Occupancy to be transferable and heritable subject to certain restrictions
- Section 25 Occupant's rights are conditional
- Section 26 Powers to grant lease
- Section 27 Occupant to pay land revenue and Government lessee to pay rent fixed
- Section 28 Saving of powers of Government
- Section 29 Uses to which holder of land for purposes of agriculture may put his land
- Section 30 Permission for non-agricultural use
- Section 31 Restriction on use
- Section 32 Procedure for conversion of use of land from one purpose to another
- Section 33 Penalty for so using land without permission
- Section 34 Responsibility of tenant or other person for wrongful use
- Section 35 Power of Government to exempt lands from provisions of sections 30, 32, 33 or 34
- Section 36 ***] Government title to mines and minerals
- Section 37 Removal of encroachments on land vesting in 54[Central Government or Government]; provisions for penalty and other incidental matters
- Section 37B Restriction on transfer of occupancy of Land
- Section 38 Regularisation of encroachments
- Section 38A Regularization of encroachment for unauthorized construction of dwelling house on Government land
- Section 39 Value and land revenue how calculated
- Section 40 Summary eviction of person unauthorisedly occupying land vesting in 66[Central Government or Government
- Section 41 Forfeiture and removal of property left over after summary eviction
- Section 42 Relinquishment
- Section 43 Right of way to relinquished land
- Section 44 Occupancy when not liable to process of civil court; court to give effect to Collector's certificate
- Section 45 Liability of land to land revenue
- Section 46 Land revenue to be a paramount charge on the land
- Section 47 Forfeited holdings may be taken possession of and otherwise disposed
- Section 48 To prevent forfeiture of occupancy certain persons other than occupant may pay land revenue
- Section 49 Alluvial lands
- Section 50 Land revenue in case of diluvion
- Section 51 Assessment of land to land revenue
- Section 52 Reduction, suspension or remission of land revenue
- Section 53 Responsibility for payment of land revenue
- Section 55 Revenue survey, settlement and term of settlement
- Section 56 Government to direct revenue survey
- Section 57 Survey officer may require by general notice or by summons, suitable service from holders of land etc
- Section 58 Assistance to be given by holders and others in measurement or classification of lands
- Section 59 Survey numbers and villages
- Section 60 Entry of survey numbers and sub-divisions in records
- Section 61 Partition
- Section 62 Division of survey numbers into new survey numbers
- Section 63 Continuance of survey operations at commencement of Code
- Section 64 Limit of sites of villages, towns and cities how to be fixed
- Section 65 City survey how to be conducted
- Section 66 In certain cases a survey fee to be charged
- Section 67 Sanad to be granted without extra charge
- Section 68 Power of Government to direct original or revision settlement of land revenue of any lands
- Section 69 Assessment how determined
- Section 70 Increase in average yield due to the improvement at the expense of holders not to be taken into account
- Section 71 Settlement Officer, how to proceed for making a settlement
- Section 72 Settlement report to be printed and published
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