EXTRAORDINARY

No. 2

GOVERNMENT OF GOA

Department of Law

Legal Affairs Division

Notification

The Goa Municipalities (Amendment) Act, 2025 (Goa Act 27 of 2025), which has been passed by the

Legislative Assembly of Goa on 07-08-2025 and assented to by the Governor of Goa on 22-09-2025, is

hereby published for the general information of the public.

Dnyaneshwar Raut Dessai, Joint Secretary (Law).

Porvorim.

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The Goa Municipalities (Amendment) Act, 2025

(Goa Act 27 of 2025)

[22-09-2025]

AN

ACT

further to amend the Goa Municipalities Act, 1968 (Goa Act 7 of 1969).

BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Goa in the Seventy-sixth Year of the Republic of India as

follows:-

7/30/2025-LA/150

Date : 08-Oct-2025

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

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Reg. No. RNP/GOA/32/2024-2026

RNI No. GOAENG/2002/6410

Panaji, 08th October, 2025 (Asvina 16, 1947)

SERIES I No. 27

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

1. Short title and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Goa Municipalities (Amendment)

Act, 2025.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

2. Amendment of Section 9.— In Section 9 of the Goa Municipalities Act, 1968 (Goa Act 7 of 1969)

(hereinafter referred to as the “principal Act”), in sub-section (2), in clause (a) against item (i), for the

expression “that the total number of elected Councillors shall not exceed 25”, the expression “that the total

number of elected Councillors shall not exceed 27” shall be substituted.

3. Amendment of Section 188.— In Section 188 of the principal Act,—

(i) in sub-section (1),—

(a) for the words “within one month”, the words “within fifteen days” shall be substituted;

(b) in the proviso, for the words “seven days” and “one month,” the words “five days” and “fifteen

days” shall be respectively substituted;

(ii) in sub-section (2), in clause (b) for the words “one month”, the words “fifteen days” shall be

substituted.

Secretariat,

SANDIP JACQUES

Porvorim-Goa.

Secretary to the Government of Goa,

Dated: 08-10-2025.

Law Department (Legal Affairs).

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