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SERIES I No. 24

Reg. No. G-2/RNP/GOA/32/2015-2017

RNI No. GOAENG/2002/6410

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

GOVERNMENT OF GOA

Department of Law & Judiciary

Legal Affairs Division

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Notification

7/22/2017-LA

The Goa Information Technology Develop-

ment (Amendment) Act, 2017 (Goa Act 21 of

2017), which has been passed by the Legislative

Assembly of Goa on 7-8-2017 and assented to

by the Governor of Goa on 16-9-2017, is hereby

published for the general information of the

public.

Sharad G. Marathe, Additional Secretary

(Law).

Porvorim, 20th September, 2017.

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The Goa Information Technology

Development (Amendment)

Act, 2017

(Goa Act 21 of 2017) [16-9-2017]

AN

ACT

further to amend the Goa Information

Technology Development Act, 2007 (Goa

Act 10 of 2007).

Suggestions are welcomed on e-mail: dir–[email protected]

EXTRAORDINARY

No. 2

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly

of Goa in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic

of India as follows:—

1. Short title and commencement.— (1) This

Act may be called the Goa Information

Technology Development (Amendment) Act,

2017.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

2. Amendment of section 2.— In section 2

of the Goa Information Technology Develop-

ment Act, 2007 (Goa Act 10 of 2007)

(hereinafter referred to as the “principal

Act”),

(i) in clause (g), for the expression

“Integrated Information Technology

Township/Information Technology Parks”,

the expression “Integrated Information

Technology Township/Information Tech-

nology Parks, Information Technology (IT)

Companies, Information Technology

Enabled Services (ITES), Startup, Electronic

Manufacturing Cluster (EMC), Industry 4.0”

shall be substituted;

(ii) after clause (g), the following clauses

shall be inserted, namely:—

(ga) “Information Technology (IT)

Companies”

includes

Information

Technology Software, Information

Technology Services;

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(gb) “Information Technology Enabled

Services (ITES)” includes Call Centres,

Medical Transcriptions, Back Office

Operations/Business Process Outsour-

cing (BPO)/Knowledge Process Out-

sourcing (KPO), Website services and

Development, AVGC (Animation, Visual

Effects, Gaming and Comics), Information

Technology System Audit Services, Legal

Database Processing, Bioinformatics,

Information

Technology

enabled

banking, non-banking services including

insurance, pension asset management

and market related services, Information

Technology solution provider/Imple-

menters (including server data banks,

application service provider, internet/

/web

based

e-commerce

service

providers and system integrators)/Visual

Effects/Digital Entertainment and

Information Technology Engineering

Services Companies;

(gc) “Startup” means an entity, in-

-corporated or registered in Goa;

(i) not prior to seven years, and in

case of Biotechnology Startups, not

prior to ten years;

(ii) with annual turnover not

exceeding Indian Rupee (INR) 25

crores in the preceding financial year;

and

(iii) working towards innovation,

development or improvement of

products or processes or services, with

a high potential of employment

generation or wealth creation; and

(iv) not formed by splitting up, or

reconstruction, of a business already

in existence;

(gd)

“Electronic

Manufacturing

Cluster (EMC)” means either a Greenfield

EMC or a Brownfield EMC notified under

the guidelines for notifying Brownfield

Clusters under M-SIPS Scheme dated

14.01.2013 [F. No. 36(3)/2012-IPHW] or a

Greenfield EMC as notified under clause

6.8(iii) of the guidelines No. 8(50)/2011-

-IPHW dated 15th April, 2013;

(ge) “Industry 4.0” means current

trend of automation and data exchange

in manufacturing technologies including

cyber-physical systems, the Internet of

things and cloud computing;

3. Amendment of section 14.— In section 14

of the principal Act,

(i)in clause (b), after the expression

“Integrated IT Township/IT Parks”, and

before the expression “and construct and

maintain”, expression “and for Information

Technology (IT) Companies, Information

Technology Enabled Services (ITES),

Startup, Electronic Manufacturing Cluster

(EMC) and Industry 4.0” shall be inserted;

(ii) in clause (e) (i) after the expression

“Integrated IT Township/IT Parks”, and

before the expression “established or

developed by the Corporation”, expression

“and for Information Technology (IT)

Companies, Information Technology

Enabled Services (ITES), Startup, Electronic

Manufacturing Cluster (EMC) and Industry

4.0” shall be inserted.

Secretariat,

SUDHIR MAHAJAN

Porvorim-Goa.

Secretary to the

Dated: 20-9-2017.

Government of Goa

Law Department

(Legal Affairs).

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