SUPPLEMENT

Goa Legislature Secretariat

The following bill which was introduced in the Legislative Assembly of the State of Goa on 13th

January, 2026 is hereby published for general information in pursuance of Rule-138 of the Rules of

Procedure and Conduct of Business of the Goa Legislative Assembly.

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The Goa Jan Vishwas (Laws Amendment) Bill, 2026

(Bill No. 2 of 2026)

BILL

to amend certain enactments enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Goa for decriminalising and

rationalising minor offences to further enhance trust-based governance and to ensure time bound

delivery of notified public services for ease of living and doing business.

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

follows:—

1. Short title and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Goa Jan Vishwas (Laws

Amendment) Act, 2026.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 2^nd day of December, 2025.

2. Amendment of certain enactments.— The enactments specified in columns (4) of the Schedule I and

Schedule II hereto are hereby amended to the extent and in the manner specified in columns (5) of the said

Schedules respectively.

3. Revision of fines and penalties.— The fines and penalties provided under various provisions in the

enactments specified in the Schedule I and Schedule II shall be increased by ten per cent. of the minimum

amount of penalty, as the case may be, specified therefor, after the expiry of every three years from the date

of commencement of this Act.

LA/LEGN/2026/3371

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

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4. Savings.— The amendment by this Act of any enactment shall not affect any other enactment in

which the amended enactment has been applied, incorporated or referred to;

and this Act shall not affect the validity, invalidity, effect or consequences of anything already done or

suffered, or any right, title, obligation or liability already acquired, accrued or incurred or any remedy or

proceeding in respect thereof, or any release or discharge of, or from any debt, penalty, obligation, liability,

claim or demand, or any indemnity already granted, or the proof of any past act or thing;

nor shall this Act affect any principle or rule of law, or established jurisdiction, form or course of

pleading, practice or procedure, or existing usage, custom, privilege, restriction, exemption, office or

appointment, notwithstanding that the same respectively may have been in any manner affirmed, or

recognized or derived by, in or from any enactment hereby amended;

nor shall the amendment by this Act of any enactment revive or restore any jurisdiction, office, custom,

liability, right, title, privilege, restriction exemption, usage, practice, procedure or other matter or thing not

now existing or in force.

5. Repeal and savings.— (1) The Goa Jan Vishwas (Laws Amendment) Ordinance, 2025 (Ordinance

No. 4 of 2025) is hereby repealed.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the Goa Excise Duty Act,

1964 (Act No. 5 of 1964), the Goa Waste Management Act, 2016 (Goa Act 19 of 2016), the Goa Fire Force

Act, 1986 (Act No. 9 of 1986), the Goa Land Revenue Code, 1968 (Act No. 9 of 1969), the Goa

Municipalities Act, 1968 (Act 7 of 1969), the City of Panaji Corporation Act, 2002 (Goa Act No. 1 of

2003), the Goa Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (Goa Act No. 14 of 1994), the Goa Labour Welfare Fund Act,

1986 (Act No. 4 of 1987), the Goa Public Health Act, 1985 (Act No. 25 of 1985), the Goa Non-

Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act, 1996 (Goa Act 5 of 1997) and the Goa (Right to Citizens to Time-

Bound Delivery of Public Services) Act, 2013 (Goa Act 19 of 2013), as amended by the said Ordinance,

shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the said Acts respectively, as amended by this Act.

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No.

Short Title

Amendments

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

1964

The Goa

Excise Duty

Act, 1964

(A) For Section 35, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“35. Penalty for contraventions not otherwise provided for.— Whoever

commits any act or makes intentional omission in contravention of any of

the provisions of this Act, or of any rule or order made under this Act, and

no penalty is specifically provided therein, he shall be liable, for each such

act or omission, to a penalty which may extend to one lakh rupees.”.

(B) In Section 35A, for clause (b), the following clause shall be substituted,

namely:-

“(b) where the contravention is liable to penalty only, with such penalty

as is provided for the contravention, or”.

“38. Limits of confiscation and/or penalty.— Without prejudice to the

limits of penalties provided hereinbefore, in every case in which, under

this Act, anything is liable to confiscation and/or penalty, as the case may

be, such confiscation and/or penalty, may be ordered —

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(a) without limit by the Commissioner, or

(b) up to confiscation of goods not exceeding ten thousand rupees

and imposition of penalty not exceeding one thousand rupees by such

other Excise Officer as the Government may, from time to time,

empower in that behalf.

Explanation:— Penalty construed herein shall be in relation to the

nature and gravity of offence committed by the licensee in person or by

his/her agent acting on his/her behalf and includes violation of condition

of licence or of a bond.”.

(D) For Section 39, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“39. Penalty in lieu of confiscation.— Whenever confiscation is

authorised by this Act, the officer ordering the same may give the owner of

the goods an option to pay, in lieu of confiscation, such penalty as the

officer thinks fit. Payment of the penalty shall not absolve the owner of the

goods from the payment of duties and other charges prescribed under this

Act.”.

2016

The Goa

Waste

Manage-

ment Act,

2016

(A) For Section 31, the following section shall be substituted, namely:-

“31. Penalty for construction or use of land and buildings contrary to

terms of holdings.— (1) Any person who, whether at his own instance or

at the instance of any other person, undertakes or carries out the

construction of, or alteration to, any building in any waste management

area or site contrary to the terms under which he holds such building or

land under this Act or any rules made thereunder, shall be liable to a

penalty of not less than fifty thousand rupees; and, in the case of a

continuing contravention, to a further penalty not exceeding one thousand

rupees for every day during which such contravention continues after the

commission of the first such offence.

(2) Any person who uses any land or building in a waste management

area or site contrary to the terms under which he holds such land or

building under this Act or any rules made thereunder shall be liable to pay

a penalty, as determined by the Corporation, which shall not be less than

ten lakhs rupees; and, in the case of a continuing contravention, to a

further penalty not exceeding ten thousand rupees for every day during

which such contravention continues after the commission of the first such

offence and such person shall also be liable to be evicted therefrom.”.

(B) Section 45 shall be omitted.

“48. Penalty for obstruction.— (1) Any person who obstructs the entry

of a person authorized under Section 34 or any person with whom the

Corporation has entered into a contract for the performance and execution

of any act by such person, to enter into or upon any land or building or

molests such person after such entry or who obstructs the lawful exercise

by him of any power conferred by or under this Act shall be liable to a

penalty which may extend to ten thousand rupees and for each subsequent

contravention to a further penalty which may extend to twenty-five

thousand rupees.

(2) If any person removes any mark set up for the purpose of indicating

any level, boundary line, or direction necessary to the execution of works

authorized under this Act, he shall be liable to a penalty which may extend

to ten thousand rupees and for each subsequent contravention to a further

penalty which may extend up to twenty-five thousand rupees.”.

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(5)

1986

The Goa

Fire Force

Act, 1986

(A) In Section 20, for the expression “shall be punishable with imprisonment

which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to an

amount not exceeding three months’ pay of such member or with both”, the

expression “shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to an amount not

exceeding six months’ pay of such member” shall be substituted.

(B) For Section 21, the following Section shall be substituted, namely:—

“21. Failure to take precautions.— Whoever fails, without reasonable

cause, to comply with any of the requirements specified in a notification

issued under sub-section (1) of Section 13, or of the direction issued under

sub-section (2) of that Section, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding

ten thousand rupees.”.

1968

The Goa

Land

Revenue

Code, 1968

(A) For Section 19, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“19. Recovering value of natural products unauthorisedly removed from

certain lands.— Any person who unauthorisedly removes from any land

which is set apart for a special purpose, or from any land which is the

property of the Government, any natural product (not being trees), shall be

liable to the Government for the value thereof, and in addition, shall be

liable to a penalty not exceeding ten times the value of the natural product

so removed. Such value and penalty shall be recoverable from him as an

arrear of land revenue.”.

(B) In Section 32, in sub-section (5), for the word “fine”, the word “penalty”

shall be substituted.

(a) in sub-section (1), in clause (ii), for the word “fine”, the word

“penalty” shall be substituted;

(b) in sub-section (1A), for the word “fine”, the word “penalty” shall be

substituted.

(D) In Section 37,—

(a) for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be substituted,

namely:-

“(2) The person who made such encroachment, or who is in

unauthorised occupation of the land so encroached upon shall pay, if the

land encroached upon forms part of an assessed survey number, the

assessment for the entire number for the whole period of the

encroachment; and if the land has not been assessed, such amount of

assessment as would be leviable for the said period in the same village

on the same extent of similar land used for the same purpose. Such

person shall, in addition, be liable to a penalty which shall not be less

than five hundred rupees but not more than five thousand rupees if the

land is used for an agricultural purpose, and if used for a purpose other

than agriculture, to a penalty not exceeding twenty thousand rupees.”;

(b) for sub-section (4), the following sub-section shall be substituted,

namely:—

“(4) Every person who makes, causes, permits or continues any

encroachment on any land referred to in a notice issued under sub-

section (3), shall, in addition to the penalties specified in sub-section

(2), be liable, at the discretion of the Collector, to a penalty not

exceeding five thousand rupees in the case of encroachment for

agricultural purposes and five hundred rupees in other cases, for every

day or part of a day during which the encroachment continues after the

date on which the notice takes effect.”.

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(E) In Section 92, for the word “fine”, the word “penalty” shall be

substituted.

(F) For Section 100, the following Section shall be substituted, namely:—

“100. Penalty for neglect to afford information.— Any person neglecting

to make the report required by Section 96, or to furnish the information or

produce the documents required by Section 99 within the period specified

in that section, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Collector, to a

penalty not exceeding five thousand rupees, which shall be leviable as an

arrear of land revenue.”.

(G) In Section 162, the expression “fines,” shall be omitted.

(H) In Section 199, in sub-section (2),—

(a) in clause (ix), for the word “fine”, the word “penalty” shall be substituted;

(b) in clause (x), the words “fine to be paid as” shall be omitted.

1969

The Goa

Municipa-

lities Act,

1968

(1) In Section 24, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (1) shall

be liable to a penalty which may extend to five thousand rupees.”.

(2) In Section 25, for sub-section (2), the following section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Any person who at a public meeting to which this section applies

acts, or invites others to act, in a disorderly manner for the purpose of

preventing the transaction of the business for which the meeting was

called together, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to five

thousand rupees.”.

(3) In Section 26, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (1) shall

be liable to a penalty which may extend to five thousand rupees.”.

(4) For Section 29, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“29. Penalty for illegal hiring or procuring of conveyances at

election.— If any person is guilty of any such corrupt practice as is

specified in clause (5) of Section 23 at or in connection with an election,

he shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to five thousand rupees.”.

(5) In Section 32, for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(1) If any person to whom this section applies is, without reasonable

cause, guilty of any act or omission in breach of his official duty, he shall

be liable to a penalty which may extend to ten thousand rupees.”.

(6) In Section 86, in sub-section (1), for the expression “all taxes, fines

and penalties paid to or levied by it under this Act, other than fines imposed

by any Court”, the expression “all taxes, penalties paid to or levied by it

under this Act, other than penalties imposed by any Court” shall be

substituted.

(7) In Section 125, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) If the person liable to give the notice referred to in sub-section (1)

or sub-section (2) fails to give such notice, he shall, be liable to a penalty

which may extend to five hundred rupees.”.

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(8) In Section 174,—

(a) for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be substituted,

namely:—

“(2) Whoever contravenes any provision of sub-section (1) shall,

unless the provisions of clause (a) of sub-section (6) of Section 171

apply, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to ten thousand

rupees; and, in the case of a continuing contravention, be liable to a

further penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees for every day

after the first during which such contravention continues.”;

(b) for sub-section (8), the following sub-section shall be substituted,

namely:—

“(8) Whoever contravenes the conditions of any permission granted

under sub-section (4), or fails to comply with the provisions of sub-

section (6) or (7), shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty

thousand rupees; and, in the case of a continuing contravention, be

liable to a further penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees for

every day after the first during which such contravention continues.”.

(9) In Section 175, for sub-section (7), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(7) Any such owner or occupier putting up any projection or

obstruction without the permission of the Council under sub-section (2), or

in contravention of such permission, or any owner or occupier who fails to

remove any projection, encroachment or obstruction after receipt of a

notice from the Council under sub-section (4) or (5), shall be liable to a

penalty which may extend to fifty thousand rupees; and, in the case of a

continuing offence, be liable to a further penalty which may extend to one

thousand rupees for every day after the first during which such offence

continues.”.

(10) In Section 176, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:-

“(3) Whoever, not being duly authorised in that behalf, removes earth,

sand or other material from, or makes any encroachment in or upon, any

open space which is not a private property, shall be liable to a penalty

which may extend to fifty thousand rupees, and, in the case of a

continuing offence, be liable to a further penalty which may extend to one

thousand rupees for every day after the first during which such offence

continues.”.

(11) In Section 178, in sub-section (6), for the expression “shall, on

conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to Five thousand

rupees”, the expression “shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty

thousand rupees” shall be substituted.

(12) In Section 180, in sub-section (2), for the expression “shall, on

conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees”,

the expression “shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to ten thousand

rupees” shall be substituted.

(13) In Section 181, in sub-section (3), for the expression “shall, on

conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to five thousand

rupees”, the expression “shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty

thousand rupees” shall be substituted.

(14) In Section 182, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

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“(2) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (1) or of

any licence issued to him shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to

one thousand rupees.”.

(15) In Section 183, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (1) or of

any licence issued to him shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to

one thousand rupees.”

(16) In Section 184,—

(a) for sub-section (9), the following sub-section shall be substituted,

namely:—

“(9) Any person who fails to comply with the notice issued by the

Chief Officer under sub-section (8), shall be liable to a penalty which

may extend to one lakh rupees.”;

(b) for sub-section (10), the following sub-section shall be substituted,

namely:-

“(10) The Court convicting such person may also direct such person

to demolish or alter the building in accordance with the order of the

Chief Officer or in such other manner as the Court may deem proper

and within the period specified by the Court. If such person fails to

demolish or alter the building within the period specified by the Court,

or in the manner required by the Court, he shall be liable to a further

penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees for every day after

the expiry of the period for compliance specified by the Court in its

order during which such non-compliance continues.”;

substituted.

(17) In Section 187, for sub-section (5), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(5) Whoever, without such permission as is required by sub-section

(1), makes or causes to be made, or, in disobedience to the requirements of

a notice given under sub-section (2), suffers to remain, any roof or wall of

such material as aforesaid, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to

fifty thousand rupees; and, in the case of a continuing offence, be liable to

a further penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees for every day

after the first during which such offence continues.”.

(18) In Section 188, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) Whoever—

(a) occupies or permits to be occupied any such building or part

thereof affected by such construction without giving any notice as

required under sub-section (1) or in contravention of the provisions of

sub-section (2); or

(b) fails to comply with any order or requisition made under sub-

section (1),

shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to one lakh rupees; and, in

the case of a continuing contravention or non-compliance, be liable to a

further penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees for every day after

the first during which such contravention or non-compliance continues.”.

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(19) In Section 189, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) if any person contravenes any provision of sub-section (1), he shall

be liable to a penalty which may extend to one lakh rupees; and, in the

case of a continuing contravention, be liable to a further penalty which

may extend to one thousand rupees for every day after the first during

which such contravention continues.”.

(20) In Section 191, for the expression “shall, on conviction, be punished

with fine which may extend to fifty rupees”, the expression “shall be liable to

a penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees” shall be substituted.

(21) In Section 197, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) Whoever fails to comply with the notice issued by the Chief

Officer under sub-section (1), sub-section (2) or sub-section (2A), as the

case may be, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty

thousand rupees; and, in the case of a continuing offence, be liable to a

further penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees for every day

after the first during which such offence continues.”.

(22) In Section 205, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (1) shall

be liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty thousand rupees.”.

(23) In Section 206, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Any person who fails to comply with any notice issued by the

Chief Officer under sub-section (1) shall be liable to a penalty which may

extend to fifty thousand rupees.”.

(24) In Section 211, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Whoever contravenes any provision of sub-section (1) shall be

liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty thousand rupees.”.

(25) In Section 212, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Whoever fails to comply with the notice under sub-section (1) shall

be liable to a penalty which may extend to twenty-five thousand rupees;

and, in the case of a continuing offence, be liable to a further penalty

which may extend to one thousand rupees for every day after the first

during which such offence continues.”.

(26) In Section 216, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (2) shall

be liable to a penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees.”.

(27) In Section 218, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Whoever takes down, alters or removes any of the said bars, chains

or posts, or removes or extinguishes any such light without the authority

or consent of the Chief Officer, shall be liable to a penalty which may

extend to twenty-five thousand rupees.”.

(28) In Section 220, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

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“(2) Whoever contravenes any provision of sub-section (1) shall be

liable to a penalty which may extend to twenty five thousand rupees; and,

in the case of a continuing contravention, be liable to a further penalty

which may extend to one thousand rupees for every day after the first

during which such contravention continues.”.

(29) In Section 221, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (1) shall

be liable to a penalty which may extend to one lakh rupees; and, in the

case of a continuing contravention, be liable to a further penalty which

may extend to one thousand rupees for every day after the first during

which such contravention continues.”.

(30) For Section 223, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“223. Depositing dust, etc., commiting nuisance.— (1) Whoever deposits

or causes or suffers any member of his family or household to deposit any

dust, dirt, dung, ashes, refuse or filth of any kind or any animal matter or

any broken glass or earthenware or other rubbish or any other thing that is

or may be a nuisance or danger, in any street or in any arch under a street

or in any drain beside a street or on any open space not being private

property or on any quay, jetty or landing place or on any part of the

seashore, or the bank of a tidal river, or whether above or below highwater

mark, or on the bank of the river, water course or nullah, except at such

places, in such manner and at such hours as shall be fixed by the Chief

Officer, and whoever commits or suffers any members of his family or

household to commit nuisance in any such place as aforesaid, shall be

liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty thousand rupees.

(2) Whoever throws or puts, or causes or suffers any member of his

family or household to throw or put, any of the matters described in sub-

section (1) (except night-soil, or, except with the permission of the Chief

Officer, any night-soil) into any drain, culvert, tunnel, gutter or water-

course, and whoever commits nuisance, or suffers any member of his

family or household to commit nuisance, in any such drain, culvert,

tunnel, gutter or water-course, or in such close proximity thereto as to

pollute the same, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty

thousand rupees.”.

(31) For Section 224, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“224. Discharging sewage, etc.— Whoever causes, or allows the water

of any sink, sewer or cesspool, or any other liquid or matter which is or is

likely to become a nuisance, from any building or land under his control,

to run, drain or be thrown or put upon any street or open space, or to soak

through any external wall, or causes or allows any offensive matter from

any sewer or privy to run, drain or be thrown into a surface drain in any

street, without the permission in writing of the Chief Officer, or who fails

to comply with any condition prescribed in such permission, shall be liable

to a penalty which may extend to fifty thousand rupees.”.

(32) For Section 225, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“225. Non-removal of filth, etc.— Whoever, being the owner or

occupier of any building or land, keeps, or allows to be kept for more than

twenty-four hours, or otherwise than in some proper receptacle, any dirt,

dung, bones, ashes, night-soil, filth or any noxious or offensive matter, in

or upon such building or land, or suffers such receptacle to be in a filthy or

noxious state, or neglects to employ proper means to remove the filth from

and to cleanse and purify such receptacle, or keeps or allows to be kept in

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or upon such building or land any animal in such a way as to cause a

nuisance, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty thousand

rupees; and, in the case of a continuing offence, be liable to a further

penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees for every day after the

first during which such contravention continues.”.

(33) In Section 226, in sub-section (3), in clause (b), for the expression

“shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to five

thousand rupees”, the expression “shall be liable to a penalty which may

extend to fifty thousand rupees” shall be substituted.

(34) For Section 227, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“227. Using offensive manure, etc.— Whoever, except with the written

permission of the Chief Officer, and in accordance with the conditions of

such permission, stores or uses night-soil or other manure or substance

emitting an offensive smell in such manner as to be a nuisance to the

neighbourhood, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty

thousand rupees.”.

(35) In Section 230, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:-

“(2) Any person who fails to comply with the notice issued under sub-

section (1) shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty thousand

rupees; and, in the case of continuing non-compliance, be liable to a

further penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees for every day

after the first during which such non-compliance continues.”.

(36) For Section 240, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“240. Penalty for contravention of provisions relating ito dangerous

diseases.— (1) Whoever knowingly contravenes any provision of Section

232, 233, 235, 236, 237 or 238, or clause (d) of Section 239, or disobeys

any order or requisition made under any of the aforesaid sections, or

obstructs any officer of the Council or other person acting under the

authority of the Council in carrying out executively any such order, shall

be liable to a penalty which may extend to twenty thousand rupees; and, in

the case of a continuing offence, be liable to a further penalty which may

extend to one thousand rupees for every day after the first during which

such contravention continues.

(2) Whoever contravenes any provision of clauses (a), (b) or (c) of

Section 239, or disobeys any order or requisition made under any of the

aforesaid clauses, or obstructs any officer of the Council or other person

acting under the authority of the Council in carrying out any such order,

shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty thousand rupees; and,

in the case of a continuing offence, be liable to a further penalty which

may extend to one thousand rupees for every day after the first during

which such contravention continues.”.

(37) In Section 243, for sub-section (5), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(5) Any owner who, after the date specified in any requisition issued

under sub-section (2), permits the overcrowding of any building in

contravention of such requisition, and any person who omits to vacate any

such building in accordance with the notice given to him under sub-

section (4), shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to one thousand

rupees for each day subsequent to the date specified in such requisition

during which such overcrowding, or such omission to vacate, continues.”.

(38) In Section 245, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

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“(3) Whoever commits a breach of any notice given or of any condition

imposed by the Council in exercise of any power under this section shall

be liable to a penalty which may extend to twenty thousand rupees.”.

(39) In Section 246, for sub-section (5), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(5) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (2) shall

be liable to a penalty which may extend to twenty thousand rupees.”.

(40) In Section 247, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) Any person who buries or otherwise disposes of any corpse in any

such place, after the date specified in the said notification for closure of

the same, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to twenty thousand

rupees.”.

(41) In Section 248, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (1) shall

be liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty thousand rupees.”.

(42) In Section 252, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Whoever uses or allows to be used any place for any of the

purposes specified in sub-section (1), without a licence, or in contravention

of any conditions subject to which a licence may have been granted under

sub-section (1), shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty

thousand rupees if the contravention is of clause (i) or (ii) of sub-section

(1), and be liable to a penalty which may extend to ten thousand rupees if

the contravention is of clause (iii) of that sub-section; and, in the case of a

continuing contravention of the said clause (i) or (ii), be liable to a further

penalty of one thousand rupees for every day after the first during which

such contravention continues, and, in the case of a continuing contravention

of the said clause (iii), be liable to a further penalty of one thousand rupees

for every day after the first during which such contravention continues.”.

(43) In Section 254, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (1) shall

be liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty thousand rupees.”.

(44) In Section 257, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) Any person who, without a licence from the Chief Officer under

sub-section (2), occupies any stall, shop, stand, shed, pen or space in a

municipal market, or sells or exposes for sale any article in a municipal

market, or uses a municipal slaughter-house, shall be liable to a penalty

which may extend to one thousand rupees.”.

(45) In Section 259, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) Whoever uses or permits the use of any premises in contravention

of the provisions of sub-section (1), or whoever refuses to comply with

any notice issued by the Chief Officer under sub-section (2), shall be liable

to a penalty which may extend to fifty thousand rupees; and, in the case of

a continuing offence, be liable to a further penalty which may extend to

five thousand rupees for every day after the first during which such

offence continues.”.

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(46) In section 260, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) Whoever uses or permits the use of any premises in contravention

of the provisions of sub-section (1), or whoever refuses to comply with

any notice issued by the Chief Officer under sub-section (2), shall be liable

to a penalty which may extend to fifty thousand rupees; and, in the case of

a continuing offence, be liable to a further penalty which may extend to

five thousand rupees for every day after the first during which such

offence continues.”.

(47) In Section 261, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) Whoever uses or permits the use of any premises in contravention

of the provisions of sub-section (1), or whoever refuses to comply with

any notice issued by the Chief Officer under sub-section (2), shall be liable

to a penalty which may extend to fifty thousand rupees, and in the case of

continuing offence with further penalty which may extend to five thousand

rupees for every day after the first during which such offence continues.”.

(48) In Section 263, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) Whoever establishes, alters, enlarges or extends, or permits the

establishment, material alteration, enlargement or extension of, any such

factory, workshop or place of business without a licence or in

contravention of any condition subject to which the licence may have been

granted, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty thousand

rupees.”.

(49) In Section 264, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Whoever uses or employs any such whistle or trumpet as aforesaid

in contravention of any provision of sub-section (1) shall be liable to a

penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees; and, in the case of a

continuing offence, be liable to a further penalty which may extend to five

hundred rupees for every day after the first during which such offence

continues.”.

(50) In Section 265, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) Whoever uses or permits the use of any premises in contravention

of the provisions of sub-section (1), or whoever refuses to comply with

any notice issued under sub-section (2), shall be liable to a penalty which

may extend to fifty thousand rupees; and, in the case of a continuing

offence, be liable to a further penalty which may extend to five thousand

rupees for every day after the first during which such offence continues.”.

(51) In Section 266, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) Whoever keeps in or upon any premises any article in

contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1) or (2), or in

contravention of any conditions subject to which a licence may have been

granted, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to twenty thousand

rupees; and, in the case of a continuing offence, be liable to a further

penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees for every day after the

first during which such offence continues.”.

(52) In Section 270, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

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“(3) Whoever forcibly opposes the seizure of cattle liable to be seized

under this Section, or rescues the same after seizure, either from a pound

or from any person taking or about to take them to a pound, shall be liable

to a penalty of one lakh rupees.”.

(53) In Section 275, in sub-section (4), for the word “fines”, the word

“penalties” shall be substituted.

(54) For section 276, the following section shall be substituted, namely:-

“276. Penalty for allowing cattle to stray in street or to trespass upon

private or public property.— (1) Whoever, within a municipal area, allows

any cattle which are in his property or in his charge to stray in any street or to

trespass upon any private or public property shall, on conviction, be

punished,—

(i) for the first offence, liable to a penalty of one lakh rupees;

(ii) for a second or subsequent offence, liable to a penalty of one lakh

fifty thousand rupees.

(2) The Magistrate trying the offence under sub-section (1) may order,—

(a) that the accused shall pay such compensation not exceeding one

thousand rupees as the Magistrate considers reasonable, to any person for

any damage proved to have been caused to his property or to the produce

of land, by the cattle under the control of the accused, trespassing on his

land; and also,

(b) that the cattle in respect of which an offence has been committed

shall be forfeited to the Government.

(3) Any compensation awarded under sub-section (2) may be recovered as

if it were a penalty imposed under this section.

(4) An offence under this section shall be cognizable.”.

(55) For Section 277, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“277. Tethering cattle, etc.— Whoever tethers cattle or other animals,

or causes or suffers them to be tethered by any member of his family or

household, in any public street or place so as to obstruct or endanger the

public traffic therein, or to cause a nuisance, or who causes or suffers such

animals to stray about without a keeper, shall be,—

(a) for a first offence, liable to a penalty which may extend to ten

thousand rupees;

(b) for a second or subsequent offence, liable to a penalty which may

extend to twenty thousand rupees.”.

(56) In Section 279, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Whoever, after such direction, keeps any pigs in any place within

the municipal area or specified part thereof without the permission

required as aforesaid, or otherwise than in accordance with the terms

thereof, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to three thousand

rupees.”.

(57) In Section 280, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:-

“(2) Whoever contravenes any provision of sub-section (1) shall be

liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty thousand rupees.”.

(58) In Section 281, in sub-section (3), the words “fine or” shall be

omitted.

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provided for the offence, on conviction, be punished with fine which may

extend to Five thousand rupees, and in the case of continuing offence with

further fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every day after the

first during which such contravention continues:”, the expression “shall be

liable to a penalty which may extend to fifty thousand rupees; and, in the

case of a continuing offence, be liable to a further penalty which may extend

to one thousand rupees for every day after the first during which such

contravention continues:” shall be substituted.

(60) In Section 314, for the words “punished with fine”, the words “liable

to a penalty” shall be substituted.

2003

The City of

Panaji

Corporation

Act, 2002

(1) In Section 55, in sub-section (2), in clause (viii) and proviso thereto,

for the word “fine”, the word “penalty” shall be substituted.

(2) In Section 113, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) If any person willfully delays or obstructs any person in the

exercise of any of his powers under this section he shall be liable to a

penalty not exceeding fifty thousand rupees.”.

(3) In Section 136, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) If any person so called upon to furnish information omits to do so

or furnishes information which is untrue to his knowledge, he shall be

liable to a penalty which may extend to twenty thousand rupees.”.

(4) For Section 137, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“137. Duty of occupier to furnish true information regarding owner's

name and address.— If the occupier of any land or building neglects or

refuses, without reasonable cause, to comply with a notice served under

Section 110 or furnishes information which is untrue to his knowledge he

shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to twenty thousand rupees.”.

(5) In Section 141, for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(1) If any person, bringing or receiving within the prescribed limits of

the City a conveyance or package on which a toll or cess on imports is or

is believed to be leviable, refuses on the demand of an officer authorized

by the Commissioner in this behalf to permit the officer to inspect, weigh

or otherwise examine the contents of the conveyance or package for the

purpose of ascertaining whether it contains any article, in respect of which

a toll or cess on imports is payable, or refuses to communicate to the

officer any information or to exhibit to him any bill, invoice or document

of a like nature which he may possess relating to the article, or with the

intention of defrauding the Corporation communicates false information or

exhibits any false, forged, or fraudulent bill, invoice or document of a like

nature, he shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to ten thousand

rupees.”.

(6) For Section 142, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“142. Punishment for evading payment of toll or cess.— If animals or

articles passing the limits of the Corporation are liable to the payment of a

toll or cess on imports, then every person who, with intention to defraud

the Corporation causes or abets the introduction of, or himself introduces

or attempts to introduce within the said limits, any such animals or articles

upon which payment of the toll or cess on imports due on such introduction

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has neither been made nor tendered, shall be liable to a penalty which may

extend either to ten times the value of such toll or cess on imports, or to

fifty thousand rupees, whichever may be greater.”.

(7) In Section 169, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Whoever, without the permission of the Commissioner, makes or

keeps for a longer time than one week after the issue of notice under this

section, any drain, privy, latrine, urinal, absorption pit, disposal work,

cesspool or other receptacle for filth or refuse, within fifteen metres of any

spring, well, tank, reservoir, swimming pool or other source from which

water is or may be derived for public use, shall be liable to a penalty

which may extend to twenty thousand rupees, and, when a notice has been

issued, with a further penalty, not exceeding five thousand rupees for each

day during which the offence is continued after the lapse of the period

allowed for removal.”.

(8) For Section 170, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“170. Discharging sewage.— Whoever, without the permission of the

Commissioner causes or knowingly or negligently allows the contents of

any sink, cesspool or any other offensive matter to flow, drain or be put

upon any street or public place, or into any irrigation channel or any drain

not set apart for the purpose, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend

to twenty thousand rupees.”.

(9) For Section 171, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“171. Making or altering drains without authority.— Whoever, without

the permission of the Commissioner, makes or causes to be made, or alters

or causes to be altered, any drain, leading into any of the drains vested in

the Corporation, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to twenty

thousand rupees.”.

(10) In Section 206, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Any person acting in contravention of the terms of sub-section (1)

shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty thousand rupees.”.

(11) In Section 223, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) If the owner of a cinematograph or other apparatus uses the

apparatus or allows it to be used, or if any person takes part in any public

dramatic performance, circus or pantomime, or if the occupier of any

premises allows those premises to be used, in contravention of the

provisos of this section, or of any condition of a licence granted under this

section, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one lakh rupees and

in the case of a continuing offence, to a further penalty of five thousand

rupees for each day during which the offence continues, and his licence

shall be liable to be revoked by the Commissioner.”.

(12) In Section 228, for sub-section (4), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(4) Any person who slaughters for sale any animal at any place within

the City other than the one fixed by the Corporation under this section

shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to twenty thousand rupees.”.

(13) In Section 229, for sub-section (4), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

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“(4) Any person bound to act in accordance with sub-section (1) of this

section shall, if he fails so to act, shall be liable to a penalty which may

extend to ten thousand rupees.”.

(14) In Section 243, for clause (c), the following clause shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(c) being the person in charge of, or in attendance on, any person

suffering from any such disease in such dwelling, and becoming cognizant

of the existence of the disease therein, fails forthwith to give information,

or knowingly gives false information to the Medical Officer of Health or

to any other officer to whom the Corporation may require information to

be given respecting the existence of such disease, shall be liable to a

penalty which may extend to fifty thousand rupees:”.

(15) In Section 264, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Any person failing to comply with the terms of such notice shall be

liable to a penalty not exceeding one lakh rupees; and if he continues to

fail to comply with the terms of such notice after the first day of such

failure, he shall be liable to a further penalty not exceeding ten thousand

rupees for every day thereafter during which the failure continues.”.

(16) In Section 269, in sub-section (1), for the word “fine”, the word

“penalty” shall be substituted.

(17) In Section 296, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) Whoever contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1) or omits to

comply with the terms of a notice under sub-section (2), shall be liable to a

penalty which may extend to five thousand rupees and in case of a

continuing contravention or omission, with further penalty which may

extend to one thousand rupees for every day after the first during which

the contravention or omission continues.”.

(18) For Section 298, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“298. Destroying direction-posts, lamp-posts, etc.— Whoever, without

being authorised by the Commissioner, defaces or disturbs any municipal

direction-post, lamp-post or lamp or damages any municipal light in any

public place, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to five

thousand rupees.”.

(19) In Section 299, for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(1) Whoever, without the consent of the owner or occupier or other

person for the time being in charge affixes or causes to be affixed any

poster, bill, notice, placard or other paper or means of advertisement

against or upon any street, building, wall, tree, board, fence or pole or

writes upon, soils, defaces or marks any such building, wall, tree, board,

fence or pole with chalk or paint or in any other way whatsoever, shall be

liable to a penalty which may extend to ten thousand rupees.”.

(20) For Section 305, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“305. Driving vehicles without proper lights.— Whoever drives or

propels any vehicle not properly supplied with lights in any street during

the period from half an hour after sunset to half an hour before sunrise

shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to five thousand rupees.”.

(21) In Section 306, for sub-section (1), the following section shall be

substituted, namely:—

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“(1) Whoever, in contravention of any general or special prohibition

issued by the Commissioner, and without the permission of the

Commissioner, beats a drum or tom tom, blows a horn or trumpet or beats

or sounds any other instrument or makes a noise on any utensil, shall be

liable to a penalty which may extend to ten thousand rupees.”.

(22) For Section 307, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“307. Discharging fire-arms.— Whoever, unless authorized, bound or

justified discharges fire-arms or lets off fire-works, fire balloons, or

detonators, or engages in any game in such a manner as to cause, or be

likely to cause danger to persons passing by or dwelling or working in the

neighbourhood, or risk of injury to property, shall be liable a to penalty

which may extend to ten thousand rupees.”.

(23) For Section 308, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“308. Quarrying, blasting, cutting timber or building.— Whoever

quarries, blasts, cuts timber or carries on building operations in such

manner as to cause or to be likely to cause danger to persons passing by or

dwelling or working in the neighbourhood, shall be liable to a penalty

which may extend to ten thousand rupees.

(24) For Section 309, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“309. Lopping of branches, etc. of tree or plant on a public

place.— Whoever, without the permission of the Commissioner, lops or

cuts the branches or twigs of any tree or plant standing on a public place,

or plucks the fruits, flowers or leaves of such tree or plant, or causes any

damage thereto, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to ten

thousand rupees, or in the case of a second or subsequent breach, to

twenty thousand rupees.”.

(25) In Section 318, for clause (b), the following clause shall be

substituted, namely:-

“(b) if the Commissioner has by notice in the prescribed manner during

the prevalence of rabies directed that dogs shall not be at large without

muzzles, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to five thousand

rupees.”.

(26) For Section 319, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“319. Letting loose horse or other animals.— Whoever willfully or

negligently lets loose any horse or other animal so as to cause, or

negligently allows any horse or other animal to cause injury, danger, alarm

or annoyance to any person or damage to property, shall be liable to a

penalty which may extend to fifty thousand rupees.”.

(27) For Section 376, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“376. Power to demand punishment or dismissal.— Notwithstanding

anything contained in this Act, if in the opinion of the State Government

any officer or servant of the Corporation is negligent in the discharge of

his duties, the Corporation shall, on the requirement of the State

Government, suspend or hold him liable to a penalty; and if in the opinion

of the State Government he is unfit for his employment, the Corporation

shall dismiss him.”.

(28) In Section 387,—

(i) for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be substituted,

namely:—

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“(1) In making a bye-law under section 386, the Corporation may

provide that a breach or any abatement of a breach thereof shall be

liable to a penalty—

(a) which may extend to one lakh rupees and, in the case of a

continuing breach, to a penalty which may extend to ten thousand

rupees for each day during which the breach continues after the first

breach; or

(b) which may extend to ten thousand rupees for every day during

which the breach continues after receipt of written notice from the

Commissioner to discontinue the breach.”;

(ii) in sub-section (2), for the word “fine”, the word “penalty” shall be

substituted.

(29) In Section 391, for sub-section (4), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(4) In making rules under clauses (d) and (i), and clauses (t) and (u) of

sub-section (2), the State Government may direct that a breach of any

provision thereof shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to five

thousand rupees.”.

(30) In Section 392, in sub-section (1), for the words “punishable with

fine”, the words “liable to a penalty” shall be substituted.

(31) For section 395, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“395. Penalty for obstruction.— Any person who willfully obstructs

any Corporation authority, or any Corporation officer or servant, or any

person authorized by any Corporation authority in the exercise of powers

conferred by this Act or any rules or bye-laws made there under shall be

liable to a penalty which may extend to ten thousand rupees.”.

(32) For Section 398, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“398. Penalty for disobedience of order of Corporation

authorities.— Whoever disobeys any lawful direction or prohibition

given by an authority of the Corporation by a public notice, or by any

written notice lawfully issued under the provisions of this Act, or fails to

comply with the conditions subject to which any permission was granted

to him by an authority of the Corporation under the said provisions, shall,

if the disobedience or omission is not an offence liable under any other

Section, be liable to a penalty which may extend to ten thousand rupees;

and in the case of a continuing breach, to a further penalty which may

extend to ten thousand rupees for every day after the first during which the

breach continues:

Provided that when the notice fixes a time within which a certain act is

to be done and no time is specified in this Act, it shall rest with the

magistrate trying an offence under this section to determine whether the

time so fixed was reasonable for purpose of compliance with the notice.”.

1994

The Goa

Panchayat

Raj Act,

1994

(1) In Section 27, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Any person who contravenes the provision of sub-section (1) shall

be liable to a penalty which may extend to five thousand rupees.”.

(2) In Section 32, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) If any person to whom this section applies, without reasonable

cause, commits any act or omission in breach of his official duty, he shall

be liable to a penalty which may extend to five thousand rupees.”.

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(3) In Section 36, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1) shall

be liable to a penalty which may extend to two thousand five hundred

rupees.”.

(4) In Section 38, for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(1) Any person who, at a public meeting held in connection with an

election under this Act, acts or incites others to act in a disorderly manner

for the purpose of preventing the transaction of the business for which the

meeting was called, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to five

thousand rupees.”.

(5) For Section 40, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“40. Penalty for illegal hiring or procuring of conveyance at election.—

If any person is guilty of any such corrupt practice as is specified in clause

(vi) of section 23 at or in connection with an election, he shall be liable to

a penalty which may extend to five thousand rupees.”.

(6) In Section 88, for the expression “shall on conviction, be punished

with fine which may extend to fifty rupees and if the offence be a continuing

one, with further fine which may extend to ten rupees for every day during

which the said offence is continued after the date of first conviction”, the

expression “shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to one thousand

rupees and, if the contravention is a continuing one, to a further penalty

which may extend to five hundred rupees for every day during which such

contravention continues after the date of the first imposition of penalty” shall

be substituted.

(7) In Section 90, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) Any person who buries or otherwise disposes of any corpse in any

such place after the date specified in the said notification for closure

thereof, or buries any corpse in any unoccupied Government land not set

apart for the burial of the dead under the provisions of any law for the time

being in force or by established usage, shall be liable to a penalty which

may extend to one thousand rupees.”.

(8) In Section 93, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) Whoever washes such clothing or bedding or other articles at any

place other than those set apart for such purposes under sub-section (1),

shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to five hundred rupees.”.

(9) For Section 110, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“110. Using offensive substance, etc.— Whoever, except with the

written permission of a Panchayat and except in the manner, if any,

enjoined in such permission, stores or uses night soil or other substances

emitting an offensive smell other than cattle manure, shall be liable to a

penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees.”.

(10) In Section 111, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) If any person, after such direction, uses or permits to be used any

such furnace not so constructed, supplemented or altered, or so negligently

uses or permits to be used any such furnace that the smoke arising therefrom

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is not effectually consumed or burnt as far as may be practicable, every

person so offending being the owner or occupier of the said works or

buildings, or being an agent or other person employed by such owner or

occupier for managing the same shall be liable to a penalty which may

extend to one thousand rupees and, upon any subsequent contravention, to

a penalty which may extend to five thousand rupees:

Provided that nothing in this section shall be held to apply to

locomotive engines used for the purpose of traffic upon any railway or any

other engines, for the repair of roads.”.

(11) In Section 112, for the expression “shall, on conviction, be punished

with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees”, the expression “shall be

liable to a penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees” shall be

substituted.

(12) In Section 112-B, for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall

be substituted, namely:—

“(1) Whoever, within the limits of a village, allows any cattle which are

his property or in his charge to stray in any street or to trespass upon any

private or public property, shall be liable to a penalty,—

(i) for the first contravention, which may extend to two thousand

rupees;

(ii) for a second or subsequent contravention, which may extend to

five thousand rupees.”.

(13) In Section 112-C, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall

be substituted, namely:—

“(2) Whoever forcibly opposes the seizure of cattle liable to be seized

under the Act and whoever rescues the same after the seizure, either from

a pound or from any person taking or about to take them to a pound, shall

be liable to a penalty of forty thousand rupees.”.

(14) In Section 187, for sub-section (4), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(4) Any person who wilfully neglects or refuses to comply with any

requisition lawfully made under sub-section (3), shall be liable to a penalty

which may extend to one thousand rupees:

Provided that no proceedings for the imposition of such penalty shall be

initiated without the sanction of the Chief Executive Officer.”.

(15) For Section 209, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“209. Penalty for contravention of any order regarding

requisition.— If any person contravenes any order made under Section

203 or Section 205, he shall be liable to a penalty of forty thousand

rupees.”.

(16) In Section 211,—

(a) for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be substituted,

namely:—

“(1) Whoever acts as a member of a Panchayat or Zilla Panchayat

knowing that under this Act or the rules made thereunder he is not

entitled to, or has ceased to be entitled to, hold office as such, shall be

liable to a penalty of one thousand rupees for every day on which he so

sits or votes as a member.”;

(b) for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be substituted,

namely:—

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“(2) Whoever acts as the Sarpanch or Deputy Sarpanch of a

Panchayat, or Adhyaksha or Upadhyaksha of a Zilla Panchayat, or

exercises any of the functions thereof, knowing that under this Act or

the rules made thereunder he is not entitled to, or has ceased to be

entitled to, hold such office or exercise such functions, shall be liable to

a penalty of two thousand rupees for every day on which he so acts or

exercises such functions.”;

punished with a fine which may extend to one hundred rupees”, the

expression “shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to one thousand

rupees” shall be substituted.

(17) For Section 212, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“212. Penalty for interested member voting.— Whosoever votes as a

member of a Panchayat or Zilla Panchayat in contravention of the

provisions of sub-section (4) of Section 55 or clause (g) of sub-section (2)

of Section 136 shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to five

thousand rupees.”.

(18) For Section 213, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“213. Penalty for acquisition by officer or servant of interest in

contract.— If any member, officer or servant of a Panchayat or Zilla

Panchayat knowingly acquires for himself directly or indirectly, by

himself or through a partner, employer or servant, any share or interest in

any contract or employment with, by or on behalf of a Panchayat or Zilla

Panchayat, he shall be liable to penalty which may extend to five thousand

rupees:

Provided that no person shall, by reason of being a shareholder, in or

member of, any company, be held to be interested in any contract entered

into between such company and the Panchayat or Zilla Panchayat unless

he is a Director of such company:

Provided further that nothing in this section shall apply to any person

who, with the sanction of the Director enters into a contract with a

Panchayat or Zilla Panchayat.”.

(19) For Section 214, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“214. Wrongful obstruction of certain officers.— Any person who

prevents the Chief Executive Officer or the Secretary or any person to

whom such officer has lawfully delegated his powers from entering on or

into any place, building or land, from exercising his lawful power of

entering thereon or, therein shall be liable to a penalty of five thousand

rupees.”.

(20) For Section 215, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“215. Prohibition against obstruction of Sarpanch or Deputy Sarpanch,

etc.— Any person obstructing a Sarpanch, Deputy Sarpanch, Secretary or

member of a Panchayat, Adhyaksha, Upadhyaksha, Chief Executive

Officer or member of a Zilla Panchayat, or any person employed by the

Panchayat or Zilla Panchayat, or any person with whom a contract has

been entered into by or on behalf of a Panchayat or Zilla Panchayat, in the

discharge of his duty or in the exercise of anything which he is empowered

or required to do by virtue of, or in consequence of, this Act or any rules,

bye-laws, regulations or orders made thereunder, shall be liable to a

penalty which may extend to five thousand rupees.”.

(21) For Section 216, the following Section shall be substituted, namely:—

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“216. Prohibition against removal or obliteration of notice.— Any

person, who without authority in that behalf removes, destroys, defaces or

otherwise obliterates any notice exhibited, or any sign or mark erected by

or under the orders of a Panchayat or Zilla Panchayat or its executive

authority, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to one thousand

rupees.”.

(22) For Section 217, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“217. Penalty for not furnishing information or giving false

information.— Any person who is required by this Act, or by any notice or

by other proceedings issued thereunder, to furnish any information, and

who fails to furnish such information or knowingly furnishes false

information, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to one thousand

rupees.”.

(23) In Section 218, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1) shall

be liable to a penalty which may extend to five thousand rupees; and if

such person is an officer or employee of the Panchayat or Zilla Panchayat,

he shall also be liable for dismissal from service in accordance with the

applicable service rules.”.

(24) For Section 223, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“223. Punishment for disobedience or orders and notices not

punishable under any other section.— Whoever disobeys or fails to

comply with any lawful direction given by way of written notice issued by

or on behalf of a Panchayat or Zilla Panchayat under any power conferred

by this Act, or fails to comply with the conditions subject to which any

permission was given to him by the Panchayat or Zilla Panchayat

concerned under any such power, shall, if such disobedience or failure is

not otherwise provided for under any other section, be liable to a penalty

which may extend to one thousand rupees, and in the case of a continuing

contravention, to a further penalty which may extend to one hundred

rupees for every day during which such disobedience or failure continues

after the date of the first imposition:

Provided that when the notice fixes a time within which a certain act is

to be done, and no time is specified in this Act, the Magistrate shall

determine whether the time so fixed was reasonable.”.

(25) In Section 228, for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(1) Whoever,—

(a) rents, alters, adds to or reconstructs a building without the written

permission required by Section 66 or in contravention of any of the

conditions imposed by it; or

(b) uses any place without a licence required by Sections 68, 69, 70

and 71 or in contravention of any of the conditions or during the

suspension of the licence; or

shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to five thousand rupees and,

in the case of a continuing contravention, to a further penalty which may

extend to one hundred rupees for every day after the first imposition during

which the contravention continues.”.

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(26) In Section 236, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(2) Whoever contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1), shall be

liable to a penalty of twenty thousand rupees.”.

1987

The Goa

Labour

Welfare

Fund Act,

1986

(A) In Section 3, in sub-section (2), in clause (i), for the word “fines”, the

word “penalties” shall be substituted.

(B) In Section 13, for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(1) If an employer does not pay to the Board any amount of unpaid

accumulation or penalty realized from the employees, within the time

specified by or under this Act, the Secretary may serve or cause to be

served a notice on such employer requiring payment of the said amount

within the period specified therein, which shall not be less than thirty days

from the date of service of such notice.”.

proviso shall be substituted, namely:—

“Provided further that the penalties shall be expended by the Board

under this Act, notwithstanding anything contained in the Payment of

Wages Act, 1936 (Central Act 4 of 1936) or any other law or agreement

for the time being in force.”.

(D) In Section 26,—

(a) for clause (a), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—

“(a) for the first offence, the employer shall be liable to a penalty not

exceeding twenty-five thousand rupees.”;

(b) for clause (b), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—

“(b) for a second or subsequent offence, the employer shall be liable

to a penalty of fifty thousand rupees.”.

namely:

“Provided that, in the absence of special and adequate reasons to the

contrary to be recorded in the judgment of the Court, in any case where

the offender is liable to penalty only, the amount of such penalty shall

not be less than ten thousand rupees.”.

(E) In Section 27,—

(a) for clause (a), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—

“(a) for the first offence, the employer shall be liable to a penalty not

exceeding twenty-five thousand rupees.”;

(b) for clause (b), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—

“(b) for a second or subsequent offence,the employer shall be liable

to a penalty of fifty thousand rupees.”;

namely:

“Provided that, in the absence of special and adequate reasons to the

contrary to be recorded in the judgment of the Court, in any case where

the offender is liable to penalty only, the amount of such penalty shall

not be less than ten thousand rupees.”.

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(F) For Section 29, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“29. General provision for penalty for contravention.— Any employer

who contravenes any provision of this Act or of any rule or order made

there under shall, if no other penalty is separately provided under this Act,

be liable to a penalty which may extend to ten thousand rupees.”.

(G) In Section 29A,—

(a) for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be substituted,

namely:—

“(1) Any contravention liable to penalty under this Act may, on an

application made by the person concerned, either before or after the

institution of any proceedings, be compounded by such Officer as the

Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify, for a

sum equivalent to seventy-five percent of the maximum penalty

provided for such contravention, in such manner as may be

prescribed.”;

(b) for sub-section (7), the following sub-section shall be substituted,

namely:

“(7) Any person who fails to comply with an order made by the

officer referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to pay a sum

equivalent to twenty five percent of the maximum penalty provided for

the contravention, in addition to such penalty.”.

(H) In Section 37, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be

substituted, namely:—

“(3) Any rule made under this section may provide that a contravention

thereof shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to five thousand

rupees.”.

(I) For Section 41, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“41. Realization of penalties and remittance thereof.— All penalties

recovered from the wages of an employee under the respective conditions of

service in an establishment shall be recorded in a register, as may be

prescribed, to be maintained by the person responsible for payment of wages

to such employee, and all such recoveries shall be credited to the Labour

Welfare Fund constituted under Section 3, in the manner prescribed.”.

1985

The Goa

Public

Health Act,

1985

(A) In Section 53, in sub-section (4), for clause (b), the following clause

shall be substituted, namely:—

“(b) leaves or takes away any person from any such hospital or place in

contravention of sub-section (3), shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five

thousand rupees.”.

(B) In Section 97,—

(a) for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be substituted,

namely:—

“(1) In making a rule under Section 75, the Government may provide

that a breach of such rule shall be liable to a penalty to the extent of

twenty-five thousand rupees.”;

(b) in sub-section (2),—

(i) for clause (i), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—

“(i) with penalty which may extend to one thousand rupees and in

case of a continuing breach, with penalty which may extend to two

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hundred rupees for every day during which the breach continues after

the first breach; or ”;

(ii) for clause (ii), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:—

“(ii) with penalty which may extend to two hundred rupees for every

day during which the breach continues after receipt of notice from the

local authority or the Health Officer to discontinue such breach.”.

“102. Penalty for preventing entry of local authority or Health

Officer.— Every person who prevents the local authority or the Health

Officer or any person to whom the local authority or the Health Officer

has lawfully delegated his powers of entering on or into any land or

building from exercising his lawful power of entering thereon or therein

to, shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five thousand rupees.”.

10.

1997

The Goa

Non-

Biodegrad-

able

Garbage

(Control)

Act, 1996

(A) For Section 5A, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“5A. Penalty for contravening provisions of Section 5.— Whoever

contravenes the provisions of section 5 shall be liable to a penalty of,—

(a) one thousand rupees for the first contravention, five thousand

rupees for the second contravention and ten thousand rupees for every

subsequent contravention, where such contravention relates to a

residential house;

(b) Five thousand rupees for the first contravention, ten thousand

rupees for the second contravention and fifty thousand rupees for every

subsequent contravention, where such contravention relates to a

commercial establishment.”.

(B) For Section 5B, the following section shall be substituted, namely:—

“5B. Penalty for contravening provisions of Section 3A.— (1) Whoever

contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 3A shall be liable

to a penalty of one lakh rupees for the first contravention, two lakh rupees

for the second contravention and five lakh rupees for every subsequent

contravention.

(2) Whoever contravenes the provisions of sub-section (2) of Section

3A shall be liable to,—

(i) a penalty of five thousand rupees for the first contravention, seven

thousand five hundred rupees for the second contravention and ten

thousand rupees for every subsequent contravention, where such

contravention is in relation to an individual;

(ii) a penalty of twenty-five thousand rupees for the first

contravention, fifty thousand rupees for the second contravention and

one lakh rupees for every subsequent contravention, where such

contravention is in relation to a commercial establishment.

(3) Whoever contravenes the provisions of sub-section (3) of Section

3A shall be liable to a penalty of ten thousand rupees in the case of simple

burning, fifty thousand rupees in the case of bulk burning for the first

contravention and for every subsequent contravention, to a penalty of

twenty thousand rupees for simple burning and one lakh rupees for bulk

burning.”.

(a) for sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be substituted,

namely:—

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“(1) Save as provided in Section 5A, whoever commits any act or

makes intentional omission, in contravention of any of the provisions of

this Act or of any rule, notification or order, made, issued or given

under this Act, shall be liable to a penalty which may extend to ten

thousand rupees and for every subsequent contravention, to a further

penalty which may extend to twenty-five thousand rupees.”;

(b) sub-section (3) shall be omitted.

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The Goa

(Right of

Citizens to

Time-

Bound

Delivery of

Public

Services)

Act, 2013

After section 12, the following section shall be inserted, namely:—

“12A. Liability of Designated Officer/any other person.— (1) Where

the Appellate Authority is of the opinion that any Designated Officer or

departmental authority or any other person fails to acknowledge or refuses

to recognise a deemed-approved application or cause obstruction in

implementation of the deemed approval, such officer/authority/person

shall be liable to pay a penalty of ₹ 25,000 (rupees twenty-five thousand)

for the first offence and ₹ 75,000 (rupees seventy-five thousand) for every

subsequent offence.

(2) In case of a Government servant, such penalty shall be recoverable

from his salary and credited to the Consolidated Fund of the State. In case

of a person other than a Government servant, the penalty shall be required

to be paid within fifteen (15) days from the date of issuance of the penalty

order. In the event of failure to remit the penalty within the stipulated

period, the same shall be recoverable as arrears of land revenue.”.

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

This Bill seeks to amend enactments enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Goa, namely, the Goa

Excise Duty Act, 1964 (Act No. 5 of 1964), the Goa Waste Management Act, 2016 (Goa Act 19 of 2016),

the Goa Fire Force Act, 1986 (Act No. 9 of 1986), the Goa Land Revenue Code, 1968 (Act No. 9 of 1969),

the Goa Municipalities Act, 1968 (Act 7 of 1969), the City of Panaji Corporation Act, 2002 (Goa Act No. 1

of 2003), the Goa Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 (Goa Act No. 14 of 1994), the Goa Labour Welfare Fund Act,

1986 (Act No. 4 of 1987), the Goa Public Health Act, 1985 (Act No. 25 of 1985), the Goa Non-

Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act, 1996 (Goa Act 5 of 1997) and the Goa (Right to Citizens to Time-

Bound Delivery of Public Services) Act, 2013 (Goa Act 19 of 2013) for decriminalising and rationalising

minor offences, substituting imprisonment clauses with monetory penalties and substituting of fine to

penalty so as to further enhance trust-based governance and it also contains provision to ensure time bound

delivery of notified public service for ease of living and doing business.

The Bill also seeks to repeal the Goa Jan Vishwas (Laws Amendment) Ordinance, 2025 (Ordinance No.

4 of 2025) which was promulgated by the Governor of Goa on 02-12-2025.

This Bill seeks to achieve above objects.

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FINANCIAL MEMORANDUM

No financial implications are involved in this Bill.

MEMORANDUM REGARDING DELEGATED LEGISLATION

No delegated legislation is involved in this Bill.

Porvorim-Goa.

9^th January, 2026.

DR. PRAMOD SAWANT

Minister for Law & Judiciary.

Assembly Hall,

Porvorim, Goa.

9^th January, 2026.

NAMRATA ULMAN

Secretary to the

Legislative Assembly of Goa.

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The Goa Excise

Duty Act, 1964

(Act No. 5 of

1964)

Section 35

35. Penalties for offences not otherwise provided for.— Whoever

is guilty of any act or intentional omission in contravention of any

of the provisions of this Act, or of any rule or order made under this

Act, and not otherwise provided therein shall be punished for each

such act or omission with fine which may extend to ten thousand

rupees.

Section 35A

35A. Punishment for attempt to commit offences.— Whoever

attempts to commit an offence punishable under this Act, or to

cause such an offence to be committed, and in such attempt does

any act towards commission of such offence, shall be punishable—

(a) where the offence is punishable with imprisonment only,

with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one half of

the longest term of imprisonment provided for such offence, or

(b) where the offence is punishable with fine only, with such

fine as is provided for the offence, or

and fine, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to

one-half of the longest term of imprisonment provided for such

offence and also with such fine as is provided for such offence.

Section 38

38. Limits of confiscation and/or penalty.— Without prejudice to

the limits of fines/penalties provided hereinbefore in every case in

which, under this Act, anything is liable to confiscation and/or

liable to penalty, as the case may be, such confiscation and/or

penalty or with both may be ordered—

(a) without limit by the Commissioner, or

(b) up to confiscation of goods not exceeding ten thousand

rupees and imposition of penalty not exceeding one thousand

rupees by such other Excise Officer as the Government may,

from time to time, empower in that behalf.

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Explanation:— Penalty construed herein shall be in relation to

the nature and gravity of offence committed by the licensee in

person or by his/her agent acting on his/her behalf and includes

violation of condition of licence or of a bond.

Section 39

39. Fine in lieu of confiscation.— Whenever confiscation is

authorised by this Act, the officer ordering the same may give the

owner of the goods an option to pay in lieu of confiscation such

fine as the officer thinks fit. Payment of the fine does not absolve

the owner of the goods from the payment of duties and other

charges prescribed in this Act.

The Goa Waste

Management

Act, 2016 (Goa

Act 19 of 2016)

Section 31

31. Penalty for construction or use of land and buildings

contrary to terms of holdings.— (1) Any person who, whether at

his own instance or at the instance of any other person, undertakes

or carries out construction of or alteration to any building in any

waste management area/site contrary to the terms under which he

holds such building or land under this Act or any rules made

hereunder shall, be liable to a fine which may not be less than fifty

thousand rupees, and in the case of a continuing contravention,

with a further fine which may extent to one thousand rupees for

every day during which such offence continues after commission of

first such offence.

(2) Any person who uses any land or building in a waste

management area/site contrary to the terms under which he holds

such land or building under this Act or any rules made hereunder in

this behalf shall be liable to pay fine as determined by the

Corporation which may not be less than one lakh rupees, and such

person shall be liable to be evicted therefrom.

Section 45

45. Offences and Penalties.— Whoever contravenes the

provisions of this Act or rules made thereunder shall be punishable

with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year.

Section 48

48. Penalty for obstruction.— (1) Any person who obstructs the

entry of a person authorized under section 34 or any person with

whom the Corporation has entered into a contract for the

performance and execution of any act by such person, to enter into

or upon any land or building or molests such person after such

entry or who obstructs the lawful exercise by him of any power

conferred by or under this Act shall, on conviction by a competent

court, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend

to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand

rupees, or with both.

(2) If any person removes any mark set up for the purpose of

indicating any level, boundary line, or direction necessary to the

execution of works authorized under this Act, he shall, on

conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may

extend to three months or with fine which may extend to rupees ten

thousand or with both.

The Goa Fire

Force Act, 1986

(Act No. 9 of

1986)

Section 20

20. Penalty for violation of duty, etc.— Any member of the Fire

Force who,—

(a) if found to be guilty of any violation of duty or wilful

breach of any provision of this Act or any rule or order made

thereunder; or

(b) is found to be guilty of cowardice; or

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permission or without having given previous notice of at least

two months; or

(d) being absent on leave fails without reasonable cause to

report himself for duty on the expiration of such leave; or

(e) accepts any other employment or office in contravention

of the provisions of Section 24,

shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to

three months or with fine which may extend to an amount not

exceeding three months’ pay of such member or with both.

Section 21

21. Failure to take precautions.— Whoever fails without

reasonable cause to comply with any of the requirements specified

in a notification issued under sub-section (1) of Section 13 or of a

direction issued under sub-section (2) of that section shall be

punishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.

The Goa Land

Revenue Code,

1968 (Act No. 9

of 1969)

Section 19

19. Recovering value of natural products unauthorisedly

removed from certain lands.— Any person who unauthorisedly

removes from any land which is set apart for a special purpose or

from any land which is the property of the Government any natural

product (not being trees) shall be liable to the Government for the

value thereof, and in addition, to a fine not exceeding five times the

value, of the natural product so removed. Such value and fine shall

be recoverable from him as an arrear of land revenue.

Sub-section (5)

of Section 32

(5) If the person fails to inform the Mamlatdar, within the period

specified in sub-section (4), he shall be liable to pay, in addition to

the non-agricultural assessment, such fine as the Government may,

by notification in the Official Gazette, specify, from time to time.

Sub-section (1)

of Section 33

(1) If any land held or assessed for one purpose is used for

another purpose without obtaining permission of the Collector

under Section 32 35 [or 32-A] or before the expiry of the period

after which the change of user is deemed to have been granted

under that section, or in contravention of any of the terms and

conditions subject to which such permission is granted, the holder

thereof or other person claiming through or under him, as the case

may be, shall be liable to the one or more of the following

penalties, that is to say,—

(i) to pay non-agricultural assessment on the land with

reference to the altered use;

(ii) to pay such fine not exceeding the market value of the

land as the Collector may, subject to rules made by the

Government in this behalf, direct;

(iii) to restore the land to its original use or to observe the

conditions on which the permission is granted within such

reasonable period as the Collector may by notice in writing

direct; and such notice may require such person to remove any

structure, to fill up any excavation or to take such other steps as

may be required in order that the land may be used for its

original purpose or that the conditions may be satisfied.

Sub-section (1A)

of Section 33

(1A) Where the land has been used for dumping mining rejects

or like material without permission, the Government may impose

such fine as may be prescribed.

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Sub-section (2)

of Section 37

(2) The person who made such encroachment or who is in

unauthorised occupation of the land so encroached upon shall pay,

if the land encroached upon forms part of an assessed survey

number, assessment for the entire number for the whole period of

the encroachment, and if the land has not been assessed, such

amount of assessment as would be leviable for the said period in

the same village on the same extent of similar land used for the

same purpose. Such person shall pay in addition a fine which shall

be not less than five rupees but not more than one thousand rupees

if the land is used for an agricultural purpose, and if used for a

purpose other than agriculture such fine not exceeding two

thousand rupees.

Sub-section (4)

of Section 37

(4) Every person who makes, causes, permits or continues any

encroachment on any land referred to in a notice issued under sub-

section (3), shall in addition to the penalties specified in sub-

section (2), be liable at the discretion of the Collector to a fine not

exceeding twenty-five rupees in the case of encroachment for

agricultural purposes and fifty rupees in other cases for every day

or part of a day during which the encroachment continues after the

date on which the notice takes effect.

Section 92

92. Revocation of exemption.— It shall be lawful for the

Government to direct that any land which is exempt under the

provisions of Section 91 from payment of non-agricultural

assessment shall cease to be so exempt if the land is used for any

purpose other than that for which the exemption is provided;

thereupon the land shall be liable to payment of the assessment

according to the provisions of this Chapter, and in addition, to such

fine not exceeding the market value of the land as the Collector

may, subject to rules made by the Government in this behalf, direct.

Section 100

100. Fine for neglect to afford information.— Any person

neglecting to make the report required by Section 96, or furnish the

information or produce the documents required by Section 99

within the period specified in that section shall be liable, at the

discretion of the Collector, to be charged a fine not exceeding

twenty-five rupees, which shall be leviable as an arrear of land

revenue.

Section 162

162. Sum recoverable under provisions of this Chapter.— All

sums due on account of land revenue, rent, cesses, profits from

land, fees, charges, fines, penalties, water rates, royalty, costs,

expenses payable or leviable under this Code; and all sums

declared by this Code or any law for the time being in force or by

any agreement or contract with the Government to be leviable as an

assessment, or as a revenue demand, or as an arrear of land

revenue, shall be levied under the foregoing provisions of this

Chapter and all the provisions of this Chapter shall, so far as may

be, be applicable thereto.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 199

(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the

foregoing provision, such rules may provide for all or any of the

following matters:—

(i) under Section 4, appointment of other village officers, and

servants;

(ii) under Section 8, the registers, accounts and other records

to be kept by the village officers;

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(iii) under Section 9, the powers and duties to be performed

by the officers specified in clauses (b), (d), (e), (f) and (g) of

Section 4;

(iv) under Section 21, rules for the disposal of land belonging

to or vesting in the Central Government;

(v) under sub-section (1) of Section 22, rules for the disposal

of alluvial land;

(vi) under sub-section (4) of Section 24, the premium to be

paid;

(vii) under Section 26, the rules subject to which the Collector

may lease under grant or contract any unoccupied land;

(viii) under Section 31, the rules subject to which the

Collector or survey officer may regulate or prohibit the use of

land for other purposes and summarily evict any holder who

uses such land for such prohibited purpose;

(ix) under sub-section (1), of Section 32 the form of

application for permission to convert the use of land from one

purpose to another; under clause (c) of sub-section (2), of

Section 32 the rules subject to which permission for change of

user may be granted by the Collector; and under sub-section (3),

of Section 32 the conditions subject to which the permission for

change of user shall be deemed to have been granted under sub-

section (5), of Section 32 the rules prescribing the fine which the

defaulter shall be liable to pay; and under sub-section (6) of

Section 32 the form in which sanad shall be granted to the holder

for non-agricultural use;

(x) under sub-section (1) of Section 33, the rules prescribing

the fine to be paid as penalty for using land without permission;

(xi) under Section 35, the rules subject to which the Collector

may regularize the non-agricultural use of any land;

(xii) under sub-section (9) of Section 36, the rules to regulate

the extraction and removal of minor minerals;

(xiii) under Section 38, the rules subject to which the land

shall be granted to the encroacher;

(xiv) under Section 46, rules subject to which holding shall be

disposed of;

(xv) under Section 50, the rules subject to which a holder of

land shall be entitled to decrease of' assessment;

(xvi) under sub-section (2), of Section 51, rules according to

which the assessment may be altered;

(xvii) under Section 52, the rules in accordance with which

reduction, suspension or remission of land revenue in any area

may be granted;

(xviii) under Section 60, the rules in accordance with which

the records of the area and assessment of survey numbers and

sub-divisions thereof shall be maintained;

(xix) under Section 61, the rules in accordance with which the

Collector may divide the holding and apportion assessment

thereof and the limits of area of land revenue below which

partition may be rejected;

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(xx) under Section 66, the rate of survey fee;

(xxi) under Section 67, the form of sanad;

(xxii) under sub-section (1) of Section 69, the rules for

dividing the lands to be settled into groups and fixing the

standard rates for each group;

(xxiii) under Section 71, the manner of ascertaining the

average yield of crops of land for the purposes of the settlement

and the manner of holding enquiry for that purpose and the

manner of submitting report to the Collector;

(xxiv) under sub-section (1) of Section 72, the manner of

publication of settlement report;

(xxv) under sub-section (3) of Section 74, scale for levy of

surcharge and grant of rebate;

(xxvi) under sub-section (1) of Section 77, other particulars to

be shown in the settlement register;

(xxvii) under Section 79, the manner in which land revenue

assessment of individual survey numbers and sub-divisions shall

be fixed by the Settlement Officer on the basis of their

classification value;

(xxviii) under Section 87, the percentage of the full market

value of lands and the other manner of publication of the

standard rates of non-agricultural assessment, fixed or revised

and the manner in which the full market value shall be

estimated;

(xxix) under Section 91, the other occupations under clause

(1), and the period and conditions under clause (5), thereof;

(xxx) under sub-section (1), the form of the record of rights

and the other particulars which a record of rights shall include,

under sub-section (2), the procedure for the first preparation of

the record of rights in any village and under sub-section (3) of

Section 95 the rules for maintaining the record of rights up-

todate;

(xxxi) under Section 97, the form of acknowledgement to be

given by the Talathi under sub-section (3), the manner in which

orders disposing of objections shall be recorded in the register of

mutations under sub-section (4), the rules subject to which

transfers of entries from the register of mutations to the record of

rights shall be effected under sub-section (5), the manner in

which entries in the register of mutations shall be certified under

sub-section (6) thereof;

(xxxii) under Section 98, the form of the register of cultivators

and crops and the manner in which it shall be maintained;

(xxxiii) the rules for the purpose of Section 101;

(xxxiv) under Section 102, the form in which and the times at

which intimation of transfers by registering officers shall be

sent;

(xxxv) under Section 104, the other land records to be

prepared;

(xxxvi) under Section 108, the rules subject to which, and the

fees on payment of which, maps and records shall be open to the

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inspection of the public and certified extracts from the same or

certified copies thereof shall be given;

(xxxvii) under sub-section (2) of Section 114, the rules for

regulating the procedure of the Collector in demarcating the

boundaries of a survey number or of a subdivision and the nature

of the boundary marks to be used and authorising the levy of

fees from the holders of land;

(xxxviii) under Section 116, the rules subject to which the

Superintendent of Surveys and Land Records may determine the

description of the boundary marks and survey marks and the

manner in which they shall be constructed, laid out, maintained

or repaired and determining dimensions and materials of such

boundary and survey marks under sub-section (3) thereof;

(xxxix) under Section 121, the rules providing for the payment

of land revenue in instalments and prescribing the dates on

which, the persons to whom, and the places whereat, such

instalments shall be paid;

(xl) under sub-section (2) of Section 125, the officer or class

of officers who shall distrain and sale the movable property of a

defaulter and the manner and procedure of doing it;

(xli) under Section 127, the rules subject to which the holding

forfeited to Government may be sold or otherwise disposed of;

(xlii) under Section 129, the form of warrant;

(xliii) under sub-section (1) of Section 131, the form of

security;

(xliv) under sub-section (1) of Section 133, the form of

proclamation to be issued, by the Collector;

(xlv) under sub-section (4) of Section 134, the form of notice;

(xlvi) under Section 181, the rules for conducting ordinary

inquiries;

(xlvii) under Section 182, the charge for copying, searches

inspection and other like matters;

(xlviii) under Section 184, the form of warrant;

(xlix) any other matter for which rules may be made under

this Code.

The Goa

Municipalities

Act, 1968

(Act No. 7 of

1969)

Sub-section (2)

of Section 24

(2) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (1)

shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to

two hundred and fifty rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 25

(2) Any person who at a public meeting to which this section

applies acts, or invites others to act, in a disorderly manner for the

purpose of preventing the transaction of the business for which the

meeting was called together, shall, on conviction, be punished with

fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 26

(2) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section

(1), shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend

to two hundred and fifty rupees.

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Section 29

29. Penalty for illegal hiring or procuring of conveyances at

election.— If any person is guilty of any such corrupt practice as is

specified in clause (5) of Section 23 at or in connection with an

election, he shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may

extend to two hundred and fifty rupees.

Sub-section (1)

of Section 32

(1) If any person to whom this section applies is without

reasonable cause guilty of any act or omission in breach of his

official duty, he shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which

may extend to five hundred rupees.

Sub-section (1)

of Section 86

(1) All moneys received by or on behalf of a Council by virtue

of this Act or any other law for the time being in force, all taxes,

fines and penalties paid to or levied by it under this Act, other than

fines imposed by any Court, all proceeds of land or other property

sold by the Council, and all rents accruing from its land or property,

and all interest, profits and other moneys accruing by gift or

transfer from the Government or private individuals or otherwise,

shall constitute the municipal fund, and shall be held and dealt with

in a similar manner to the property specified in Section 84 and

Section 93, respectively: Provided that—

(a) nothing in this section or in section 84 shall in any way

affect any obligation accepted by or imposed upon any Council

by any declarations of trust executed by or on behalf of such

Council or by any scheme settled under the Charitable

Endowments Act, 1890, for the administration of any trust, or by

a trust of the nature specified in clause (b); VI of 1890.

(b) a Council may, subject to the condition that reasonable

provision shall be made for the performance of all obligations

imposed or that may be imposed on it by or under this Act or any

other law for the time being in force, after crediting the

necessary sums to the funds created under Section 87, credit to a

separate heading in the municipal accounts any portion of the

municipal fund received or set apart by it specially for such

purposes as the Director in this behalf approves, and the Council

shall apply sums so credited exclusively to the special purposes

for which such sums were received or set apart;

periodically to a shrine within its area shall, subject to the

condition that reasonable provision shall be made for the

purposes specified in sub-clause (ii), credit the proceeds of the

said tax to a separate heading in the municipal account to be

called the “Pilgrim Fund Account”;

(ii) the purposes for which provision shall be made by a

Council before the proceeds of the pilgrim tax are credited to the

Pilgrim Fund Account shall be the following, namely, the

payment to the Council of such percentage of the proceeds of the

said tax as may be determined from time to time by the Council

with the approval of the Director for—

(A) making reasonable provision for the performance of all

obligations imposed or which may be imposed on it by or

under this Act or any other law for the time being in force;

(B) such general duties of the Council as are connected

with the health, convenience and safety of the said pilgrims;

and

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(iii) the sums credited under sub-clause (i) shall be devoted to

such works conducive to the health, convenience and safety of the

said pilgrims as may be approved by the Director.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 125

(3) If the person liable to give the notice referred to in sub-

section (1) or sub-section (2) fails to give such notice, he shall, on

conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 174

(2) Whoever contravenes any provision of sub-section (1), shall,

unless the provisions of clause (a) of sub-section (6) of Section 171

apply, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to

one hundred rupees, and in the case of a continuing contravention

with further fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every

day after the first during which such contravention continues.

Sub-section (8)

of Section 174

(8) Whoever contravenes the conditions of any permission

granted under sub-section (4), or fails to comply with the

provisions of sub-section (6) or (7), shall, on conviction, be

punished with fine which may extend Five thousand rupees, and in

the case of continuing contravention with further fine which may

extend to one hundred rupees for every day after the first during

which such contravention continues.

Sub-section (7)

of Section 175

(7) Any such owner or occupier putting up any projection or

obstruction without the permission of the Council under sub-

section (2), or in contravention of such permission or any owner or

occupier who fails to remove any projection, encroachment or

obstruction after the receipt of a notice from the Council under sub-

section (4) or (5) shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which

may extend to Five thousand rupees and in the case of a continuing

offence with further fine which may extend to twenty rupees for

every day after the first during which such offence continues.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 176

(3) Whoever not being duly authorised in that behalf, removes

earth, sand or other material from, or makes any encroachment in

or upon, any open space which is not a private property, shall, on

conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to Five

thousand rupees, and in the case of continuing offence with further

fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every day after

the first during which such offence continues.

Sub-section (6)

of Section 178

(6) Whoever lays out or makes any such street either without

giving the notice required by sub-section (1) or otherwise than in

accordance with the instructions issued by the Council under clause

(a) of sub-section (3), or in any manner contrary to the provisions

of this Act, or of any bye-laws in force thereunder shall, on

conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to Five

thousand rupees, and the Council may cause any street so laid out

or made, to be altered and any building constructed in such street to

be altered or removed and the expense thereby incurred shall be

paid to the Council by the offender, and shall be recoverable in the

same manner as an amount due on account of a property tax.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 180

(2) Any person who destroys, pulls down or defaces any such

name or number of a public street or number or sub-number of any

premises or part thereof or puts up any name, number or sub-

number different from that determined by the Council and any owner

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of any premises or part thereof who does not at his own expense

put up such number or sub-number of such premises or part

thereof, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may

extend to five hundred rupees.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 181

(3) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (1)

shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to

Five thousand rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 182

(2) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (1)

or of any licence issued to him shall, on conviction, be punished

with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 183

(2) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (1)

or of any licence issued to him shall, on conviction, be punished

with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.

Sub-section (9)

of Section 184

(9) Any person who fails to comply with the notice issued by the

Chief Officer under sub-section (8), shall, on conviction, be

punished with fine which may extend to fifteen thousand rupees.

Sub-section (10)

of Section 184

(10) The Court convicting such person may also direct such

person to demolish or alter the building in accordance with the

order of the Chief Officer or in such other manner as the Court may

deem proper and within the period specified by the Court. If such

person fails to demolish or alter the building within the period

specified by the Court, or in the manner required by the Court, he

shall, on conviction, be punished with further fine which may

extend to one hundred rupees for every day after the expiry of the

period for compliance specified by the Court in its order during

which such non-compliance continues.

Sub-section (21)

of Section 184

(21) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other provisions

of this Act, the Chief Officer may, subject to the recommendation

of the Council, regularize any construction in respect of which no

notice as required under sub-section (2) has been given, on

payment of a fine equivalent to the fees and taxes payable in

respect thereof from the date of commencement of such

construction, provided that such construction is as per the building

bye-laws and complies with the provisions of any other law for the

time being in force.

Sub-section (5)

of Section 187

(5) Whoever without such permission as is required by sub-

section (1), makes or causes to be made, or in disobedience to the

requirements of a notice given under sub-section (2) suffers to

remain, any roof or wall of such material as aforesaid, shall, on

conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to five

thousand rupees, and in the case of a continuing offence with

further fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every day

after the first during which such offence continues.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 188

(3) Whoever— (a) occupies or permits to be occupied any such

building or part thereof affected by such construction without

giving any notice as required under sub-section (1) or in

contravention of the provisions of sub-section (2); or (b) fails to

comply with any order or requisition made under sub-section (1)

shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to ten

thousand rupees, and in the case of continuing contravention or

non-compliance with further fine which may extend to one hundred

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rupees for every day after the first during which such contravention

or non-compliance continues.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 189

(2) if any person contravenes any provision of sub-section (1),

he shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to

ten thousand rupees, and in the case of continuing contravention

with further fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every

day after the first during which such contravention continues.

Section 191

191. Penalty for defacing building, etc.— Any person—

(a) who, without the consent of the owner or occupier, and in

the case of municipal property without the permission in writing

of the Chief Officer, affixes any posting bill, placard or other

paper or means of advertisement against or upon any building,

wall, board, fence, pale, post, lamp-post or the like; or

(b) who, without such consent or permission, as aforesaid,

writes upon, soils, defaces or marks any such building, wall,

board, fence, pale, post, lamp-post or the like, with chalk or

paint or in any other way whatsoever, shall, on conviction, be

punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 197

(3) Whoever fails to comply with the notice issued by the Chief

Officer under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) or sub-section (2A),

as the case may be, shall be punishable with fine which may extend

to five thousand rupees and in case of a continuing offence with a

further fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every day

after the first during which such offence continues.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 205

(3) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (1)

shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to

Five thousand rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 206

(2) Any person who fails to comply with any notice issued by

the Chief Officer under sub-section (1), shall, on conviction, be

punished with fine which may extend to Five thousand rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 211

(2) Whoever contravenes any provision of sub-section (1) shall,

on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to Five

thousand rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 212

(2) Whoever fails to comply with the notice under sub-section

(1) shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to

two thousand five hundred rupees and in the case of continuing

offence with further fine which may extend to fifty rupees for every

day after the first during which such offence continues.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 216

(3) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section

(2), shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend

to fifty rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 218

(2) Whoever takes down, alters or removes any of the said bars,

chains, or posts or removes or extinguishes any such light without

the authority or consent of the Chief Officer, shall, on conviction,

be punished with fine which may extend to two thousand five

hundred rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 220

(2) Whoever contravenes any provision of sub-section (1) shall,

on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to two

thousand five hundred rupees and in the case of continuing

contravention with further fine which may extend to one hundred

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continues.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 221

(2) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (1)

shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to ten

thousand rupees and in the case of continuing contravention with

further fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every day

after the first during which such contravention continues.

Section 223

223. Depositing dust, etc., committing nuisance.— (1) Whoever

deposits or causes or suffers any member of his family or

household to deposit any dust, dirt, dung, ashes, refuse or filth of

any kind or any animal matter or any broken glass or earthenware

or other rubbish or any other thing that is or may be a nuisance or

danger, in any street or in any arch under a street or in any drain

beside a street or on any open space not being private property or

on any quay, jetty or landing place or on any part of the seashore,

or the bank of a tidal river, or whether above or below high water

mark, or on the bank of the river, water course or nullah, except at

such places, in such manner and at such hours as shall be fixed by

the Chief Officer, and whoever commits or suffers any members of

his family or household to commit nuisance in any such place as

aforesaid, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may

extend to Five thousand rupees.

(2) Whoever throws or puts or causes or suffers any members of

his family or household to throw or put any of the matters

described in sub-section (1) except night-soil or except with the

permission of the Chief Officer, any night-soil into any drain,

culvert, tunnel, gutter or water-course, and whoever commits

nuisance or suffers any member of his family or household to

commit nuisance in any such drain, culvert, tunnel, gutter or water-

course, or in such close proximity thereto as to pollute the same,

shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to

Five thousand rupees.

Section 224

224. Discharging sewage, etc.— Whoever causes, or allows the

water of any sink, sewer or cesspool or any other liquid or other

matter which is or which is likely to become a nuisance, from any

building or land under his control, to run, drain or be thrown or put

upon any street or open space, or to soak through any external wall,

or causes or allows any offensive matter from any sewer or privy to

run, drain or be thrown into a surface drain in any street, without

the permission in writing of the Chief Officer or who fails to

comply with any condition prescribed in such permission, shall, on

conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to Five

thousand rupees.

Section 225

225. Non-removal of filth, etc.— Whoever, being the owner or

occupier of any building or land, keeps, or allows to be kept for

more than twenty-four hours, or otherwise than in some proper

receptacle, any dirt, dung, bones, ashes, night-soil, filth or any

noxious or offensive matter, in or upon such building or land, or

suffers such receptacle to be in a filthy or noxious state, or neglects

to employ proper means to remove the filth from and to cleanse and

purify such receptacle, or keeps or allows to be kept in or upon

such building or land any animal in such a way as to cause a

nuisance, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may

extend to five thousand rupees, and in the case of continuing offence

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with further fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every

day after the first during which such contravention continues.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 226

(3) Whoever,— (a) when the Chief Officer has fixed such hours,

manner and routes and given such public notice, removes or causes

to be removed along any street any such offensive matter at any

time except within the hours so fixed, or by any route other than

that fixed by the Chief Officer; or (b) at any time, whether such

hours, manner or routes have been fixed by the Chief Officer or

not,— (i) uses for any such purpose any cart, carriage, receptacle or

vessel, not having a covering sufficient for preventing the escape of

the contents thereof and of the stench therefrom; or (ii) wilfully or

negligently slops or negligently slops or spills any such offensive

matter in the removal thereof; or (iii) does not carefully sweep and

clean every place in which any such offensive matter has been

slopped or spilled; or (iv) places or sets down in any public place

any vessel containing such offensive matter, shall, on conviction,

be punished with fine which may extend to Five thousand rupees.

Section 227

227. Using offensive manure, etc.— Whoever, except with the

written permission of the Chief Officer, and in accordance with the

conditions of such permission, stores or uses night-soil or other

manure or substance emitting an offensive smell in such manner as

to be a nuisance to the neighbourhood shall, on conviction, be

punished with fine which may extend to Five thousand rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 230

(2) Any person who fails to comply with the notice issued under

sub-section (1) shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which

may extend to Five thousand rupees, and in the case of continuing

non-compliance with further fine which may extend to one hundred

rupees for every day after the first, during which such non-

compliance continues.

Section 240

240. Penalty for contravention of provisions relating ito

dangerous diseases.— (1) Whoever knowingly contravenes any

provision of Section 232, 233, 235, 236, 237 or 238 or clause (d) of

section 239, or disobeys any order or requisition made under any of

the aforesaid sections, or obstructs any officer of the Council or

other person acting under the authority of the Council in carrying

out executively any such order shall, on conviction, be punished

with, fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, and in the

case of continuing offence with further fine which may extend to

one hundred rupees for every day after the first during which such

contravention continues. (2) Whoever contravenes any provision of

clauses (a), (b) or (c) of Section 239, or disobeyes any order or

requisition made under any of the aforesaid clauses, or obstructs

any officer of the Council or other person acting under the

authority of the Council in carrying out executively any such order

shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to

five thousand rupees, and in the case of continuing offence with

further fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every day

after the first during which such contravention continues.

Sub-section (5)

of Section 243

(5) Any owner who after the date specified in any requisition

issued under sub-section (2) permits the overcrowding of any

building in contravention of such requisition, and any person who

omits to vacate any such building in accordance with the notice

given to him under sub-section (4), shall, on conviction, be

punished with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for each

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which such overcrowding, or such omission to vacate, continues.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 245

(3) Whoever commits a breach of any notice given or of any

condition imposed by the Council in exercise of any power under

this section shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may

extend to two thousand rupees.

Sub-section (5)

of Section 246

(5) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (2)

shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to

two thousand rupees.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 247

(3) Any person who buries or otherwise disposes of any corpse

in any such place, after the date specified in the said notification for

closure of the same, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine

which may extend to two thousand rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 248

(2) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section

(1), shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend

to Five thousand rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 252

(2) Whoever uses or allows to be used any place for any of the

purposes specified in sub-section (1), without a licence, or in

contravention of any conditions subject to which a licence may

have been granted under sub-section (1) shall, on conviction, be

punished with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees if the

contravention is of clause (i) or (ii) of sub-section (1) and with fine

which may extend to one thousand rupees if the contravention is of

clause (iii) of that sub-section, and in the case of continuing

contravention of the said clause (i) or (ii) with further fine of one

hundred rupees, and of the said clause (iii) with further fine of fifty

rupees for every day after the first during which such contravention

continues.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 254

(2) Any person who contravenes any provision of sub-section (1)

shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to

Five thousand rupees.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 257

(3) Any person who, without a licence from the Chief Officer

under sub-section (2), shall occupy any stall, shop, stand, shed, pen

or space in a municipal market or sell or expose for sale any article

in a municipal market or use a municipal slaughter-house, shall, on

conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 259

(3) Whoever uses or permits the use of any premises in

contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1), or whoever

refuses to comply with any notice issued by the Chief Officer under

sub-section (2), shall, on conviction be punished with fine which

may extend to five thousand rupees and in the case of continuing

offence with further fine which may extend to five hundred rupees

for every day after the first during which such offence continues.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 260

(3) Whoever uses or permits the use of any premises in

contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1), or whoever

refuses to comply with any notice issued by the Chief Officer under

sub-section (2), shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which

may extend to five thousand rupees and in the case of continuing

offence with further fine which may extend to five hundred rupees

for every day after the first during which such offence continues.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 261

(3) Whoever uses or permits the use of any premises in

contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1), or whoever refuses

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to comply with any notice issued by the Chief Officer under sub-

section (2), shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may

extend to five thousand rupees, and in the case of continuing

offence with further fine which may extend to five hundred rupees

for every day after the first during which such offence continues.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 263

(3) Whoever establishes, alters, enlarges or extends or permits

the establishment, material alteration, enlargement or extension of

any such factory, workshop or place of business without a licence

or in contravention of any condition subject to which the licence

may have been granted shall, on conviction, be punished with fine

which may extend to five thousand rupees. Explanation:— Nothing

in this section of Section 265 shall be deemed to affect any

provision of the Indian Boilers Act, 1923, or authorise any order

relating to the fixing or fencing of any engine, mill-gearing, hoist

or other machinery in any factory to which the provisions of the

Factories Act, 1948, are applicable. V of 1923. LXIII of 1948.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 264

(2) Whoever uses or employs any such whistle or trumpet as

aforesaid in contravention of any provision of sub-section (1) shall,

on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to fifty

rupees and in the case of continuing offence with further fine which

may extend to five rupees for every day after the first during which

such offence continues.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 265

(3) Whoever uses or permits the use of any premises in

contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1), or whoever

refuses to comply with any notice issued under sub-section (2)

shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to

411[five thousand rupees], and in the case of continuing offence

with further fine which may extend to five hundred rupees for

every day after the first during which such offence continues.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 266

(3) Whoever keeps in or upon any premises any article in

contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1) or (2), or in

contravention of any conditions subject to which a licence may

have been granted shall, on conviction, be punished with fine

which may extend to two thousand rupees, and in the case of

continuing offence with further fine which may extend to one

hundred rupees for every day after the first during which such

offence continues.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 270

(3) Whoever forcibly opposes the seizure of cattle liable to be

seized under this section, and whoever rescues the same after

seizure, either from a pound or from any person taking or about to

take them to a pound, shall, on conviction, be punished with

imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with

fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, or with both.

Sub-section (4)

of Section 275

(4) The compensation, fees and expenses mentioned in this

section, may be recovered as if they were fines imposed by the

Magistrate.

Section 276

276. Penalty for allowing cattle to stray in street or to trespass

upon private or public property.— (1) Whoever, within a municipal

area, allows any cattle which are his property or in his charge to

stray in any street or to trespass upon any private or public property

shall, on conviction, be punished— (i) for the first offence, with

fine which may extend to one thousand rupees; (ii) for a second or

subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend

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to six months, or with fine which may extend to two thousand

rupees, or with both.

(2) The Magistrate trying the offence under sub-section (1) may

order,— (a) that the accused shall pay such compensation not

exceeding one thousand rupees as the Magistrate considers

reasonable, to any person for any damage proved to have been

caused to his property or to the produce of land, by the cattle under

the control of the accused, trespassing on his land; and also, (b) that

the cattle in respect of which an offence has been committed shall

be forfeited to the Government.

(3) Any compensation awarded under sub-section (2) may be

recovered as if it were a fine imposed under this section.

(4) An offence under this section shall be cognizable.

Section 277

277. Tethering cattle, etc.— Whoever tethers cattle or other

animals, or causes or suffers them to be tethered by any member of

his family or household, in any public street or place so as to

obstruct or endanger the public traffic therein, or to cause a

nuisance, or who causes or suffers such animals to stray about

without a keeper, shall, on conviction, be punished— (a) for a first

offence, with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees; (b)

for a second or subsequent offence, with fine which may extend to

two thousand rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 279

(2) Whoever after such direction keeps any pigs in any place

within the municipal area or specified part thereof without the

permission required as aforesaid, or otherwise than in accordance

with the terms thereof, shall, on conviction, be punished with fine

which may extend to three hundred rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 280

(2) Whoever contravenes any provision of sub-section (1) shall,

on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to Five

thousand rupees.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 281

(3) Any prosecution under this Act or the rules or bye-laws made

thereunder may, save as therein otherwise provided, be instituted

before any Magistrate; and every fine or penalty imposed under or

by virtue of this Act or any rule or bye-law, and any compensation,

expenses, charges or damages for the recovery of which no special

provision is otherwise made in this Act, may be recovered on

application to any Magistrate, by the distress and sale of any

movable property within the limits of his jurisdiction belonging to

the person from whom the money is claimable.

Section 284

284. General penalty.— Whoever— (a) does or omits to do any

act in contravention of any provisions of this Act, or the rules or

bye-laws made thereunder; or (b) disobeys or fails to comply with

any lawful direction given by any written notice or order issued by

or on behalf of a Council under any power conferred by or under

this Act; or (c) fails to comply with the conditions subject to which

any permission or licence was given to him by or on behalf of a

Council under any power conferred by or under this Act; or (d)

when lawfully called upon by the Chief Officer or any officer duly

authorised to supply an information in his possession which may be

required for the purpose of this Act or of any rules or bye-laws

made thereunder, fails to supply such information or wilfully

supplies false information, shall, if no other penalty is provided for

the offence, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend

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to Five thousand rupees, and in the case of continuing offence with

further fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every day

after the first during which such contravention continues: Provided

that, when a notice or order fixes a time within which a certain act

is to be done, and no time is specified by or under this Act, it shall

rest with the Magistrate to determine whether the time so fixed was

reasonable time.

Section 314

314. Proceedings, if any occupier opposes the execution of the

Act.— If the occupier of any building or land prevents the owner

thereof from carrying into effect in respect of such building or land,

any of the provisions of this Act, after notice of his intention so to

carry them into effect has been given by the owner to such

occupier, any Executive Magistrate upon proof thereof, and upon

application of the owner, may make an order in writing requiring

such occupier to permit the owner to execute all such works, with

respect to such building or land as may be necessary for carrying

into effect the provisions of this Act, and may also, if he thinks fit,

order the occupier to pay to the owner the costs relating to such

application or order; and if, after the expiration of eight days from

the date of the order, such occupier continues to refuse to permit

such owner to execute any such work, such occupier shall, on

conviction, for every day during which he so continues to refuse,

be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees and

every such owner, during the continuance of such refusal, shall be

discharged from any penalties to which he might otherwise have

become liable by reason of his default in executing such works.

The City of

Panaji

Corporation

Act, 2002

(Goa Act 1 of

2003)

Sub-section (2)

of Section 55

(2) The following penalties may, for good and sufficient reasons,

be imposed upon any municipal officer or servant— (i) censure; (ii)

withholding of increments or promotion, including stoppage at an

efficiency bar; (iii) reduction to a lower post or time-scale or to a

lower stage in a time-scale; (iv) recovery from pay of the whole or

part of any pecuniary loss caused to the Corporation by negligence

or by breach of orders; (v) suspension; (vi) removal from the

service of the Corporation, which does not disqualify from future

employment; (vii) dismissal from the service of the Corporation,

which ordinarily disqualifies from future employment:

Provided that a dismissed municipal officer or servant may be

re-employed by the Corporation with the special sanction of the

State Government; and (viii) fine to be deducted from salary:

Provided that no fine shall be inflicted upon members of the

clerical and ministerial establishments or upon any municipal

servant with a monthly salary of more than five thousand rupees.

Explanation:— ‘The penalty of removal may be inflicted upon a

municipal officer or servant either for misconduct not sufficiently

grave to justify dismissal or on account of general unfitness for the

duties of his office.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 113

(3) If any person willfully delays or obstructs any person in the

exercise of any of his powers under this section he shall be liable to

a fine not exceeding five thousand rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 136

(2) If any person so called upon to furnish information omits to

do so or furnishes information which is untrue to his knowledge, he

shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two thousand

rupees.

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137. Duty of occupier to furnish true information regarding

owner's name and address.— If the occupier of any land or

building neglects or refuses, without reasonable cause, to comply

with a notice served under Section 110 or furnishes information

which is untrue to his knowledge he shall be punishable with fine

which may extend to two thousand rupees.

Sub-section (1)

of Section 141

(1) If any person, bringing or receiving within the prescribed

limits of the City a conveyance or package on which a toll or cess

on imports is or is believed to be leviable, refuses on the demand of

an officer authorized by the Commissioner in this behalf to permit

the officer to inspect, weigh or otherwise examine the contents of

the conveyance or package for the purpose of ascertaining whether

it contains any article, in respect of which a toll or cess on imports

is payable, or refuses to communicate to the officer any

information or to exhibit to him any bill, invoice or document of a

like nature which he may possess relating to the article, or with the

intention of defrauding the Corporation communicates false

information or exhibits any false, forged, or fraudulent bill, invoice

or document of a like nature, he shall be punished with a fine which

may extend to one thousand rupees.

Section 142

142. Punishment for evading payment of toll or cess.— If

animals or articles passing the limits of the Corporation are liable

to the payment of a toll or cess on imports, then every person who,

with intention to defraud the Corporation causes or abets the

introduction of, or himself introduces or attempts to introduce

within the said limits, any such animals or articles upon which

payment of the toll or cess on imports due on such introduction has

neither been made nor tendered, shall be punishable with fine

which may extend either to ten times the value of such toll or cess

on imports, or to five thousand rupees, whichever may be greater.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 169

(2) Whoever, without the permission of the Commissioner,

makes or keeps for a longer time than one week after the issue of

notice under this section, any drain, privy, latrine, urinal, absorption

pit, disposal work, cesspool or other receptacle for filth or refuse,

within fifteen metres of any spring, well, tank, reservoir, swimming

pool or other source from which water is or may be derived for

public use, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two

thousand rupees, and, when a notice has been issued, with a further

fine, not exceeding five hundred rupees for each day during which

the offence is continued after the lapse of the period allowed for

removal.

Section 170

170. Discharging sewage.— Whoever, without the permission of

the Commissioner causes or knowingly or negligently allows the

contents of any sink, cesspool or any other offensive matter to flow,

drain or be put upon any street or public place, or into any

irrigation channel or any drain not set apart for the purpose, shall

be punished with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees.

Section 171

171. Making or altering drains without authority.— Whoever,

without the permission of the Commissioner, makes or causes to be

made, or alters or causes to be altered, any drain, leading into any

of the drains vested in the Corporation, shall be punished with fine

which may extend to two thousand rupees.

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Sub-section (2)

of Section 206

(2) Any person acting in contravention of the terms of sub-

section (1) shall be punished with a fine not exceeding five

thousand rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 223

(2) If the owner of a cinematograph or other apparatus uses the

apparatus or allows it to be used, or if any person takes part in any

public dramatic performance, circus or pantomime, or if the

occupier of any premises allows those premises to be used, in

contravention of the provisos of this section, or of any condition of

a licence granted under this section, he shall be liable to a fine not

exceeding ten thousand rupees and in the case of a continuing

offence, to a further penalty of one thousand rupees for each day

during which the offence continues, and his licence shall be liable

to be revoked by the Commissioner.

Sub-section (4)

of Section 228

(4) Any person who slaughters for sale any animal at any place

within the City other than the one fixed by the Corporation under

this section shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two

thousand rupees.

Sub-section (4)

of Section 229

(4) Any person bound to act in accordance with sub-section (1)

of this section shall, if he fails so to act, be punished with fine

which may extend to one thousand rupees.

Section 243

243. Information to be given of existence of dangerous

disease.— Whoever— (a) being a medical practitioner or a person

openly and constantly practising the medical profession and in the

course of such practice becoming cognizant of the existence of any

infectious disease in any dwelling other than a public hospital, or,

in default of such medical practitioner or person practising the

medical profession, (b) being, the owner, or occupier of such

dwelling and becoming cognizant of the existence of any such

disease therein, or, in default of such owner or occupier, (c) being

the person in charge of, or in attendance on, any person suffering

from any such disease in such dwelling, and becoming cognizant of

the existence of the disease therein, fails forthwith to give

information, or knowingly gives false information to the Medical

Officer of Health or to any other officer to whom the Corporation

may require information to be given respecting the existence of

such disease, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to

five thousand rupees: Provided that a person not required to give

information in the first instance, but only in default of some other

person, shall not be punishable if he shows that he had reasonable

cause to suppose that the information had been, or would be, duly

given.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 264

(2) Any person failing to comply with the term of such notice

shall be punishable with a fine which may extend to ten thousand

rupees and if he fails to comply with the terms of such notice after

the first day of his failure so to do, with a further fine which may

extend to one thousand rupees for every such day after the first.

Sub-section (1)

of Section 269

(1) If any building is erected or re-erected in contravention of

any town-planning scheme mentioned under Section 255 or of any

building bye-laws made under Section 386, the Commissioner,

without prejudice to his right to take proceedings for a fine in

respect of the contravention, may by notice require the owner either

to pull down or remove the work or, if he so elects to effect such

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alterations therein as may be necessary to make it comply with the

said scheme or byelaws.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 296

(3) Whoever contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1) or

omits to comply with the terms of a notice under sub-section (2),

shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred

rupees and in case of a continuing contravention or omission, with

a further fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every

day after the first during which the contravention or omission

continues.

Section 298

298. Destroying direction-posts, lamp-posts, etc.— Whoever,

without being authorised by the Commissioner, defaces or disturbs

any municipal direction-post, lamppost or lamp or damages any

municipal light in any public place, shall be punishable with fine

which may extend to five hundred rupees.

Sub-section (1)

of Section 299

(1) Whoever, without the consent of the owner or occupier or

other person for the time being in charge affixes or causes to be

affixed any poster, bill, notice, placard or other paper or means of

advertisement against or upon any street, building, wall, tree,

board, fence or pole or writes upon, soils, defaces or marks any

such building, wall, tree, board, fence or pole with chalk or paint or

in any other way whatsoever, shall be punishable with fine which

may extend to one thousand rupees.

Section 305

305. Driving vehicles without proper lights.— Whoever drives

or propels any vehicle not properly supplied with lights in any

street during the period from half an hour after sunset to half an

hour before sunrise shall be punishable with fine which may extend

to five hundred rupees.

Sub-section (1)

of Section 306

(1) Whoever, in contravention of any general or special

prohibition issued by the Commissioner, and without the

permission of the Commissioner, beats a drum or tom tom, blows a

horn or trumpet or beats or sounds any other instrument or makes a

noise on any utensil, shall be punishable with fine which may

extend to one thousand rupees.

Section 307

307. Discharging fire-arms.— Whoever, unless authorized,

bound or justified discharges fire-arms or lets off fire-works, fire

balloons, or detonators, or engages in any game in such a manner

as to cause, or be likely to cause danger to persons passing by or

dwelling or working in the neighborhood, or risk of injury to

property, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one

thousand rupees.

Section 308

308. Quarrying, blasting, cutting timber or building.— Whoever

quarries, blasts, cuts timber or carries on building operations in

such manner as to cause or to be likely to cause danger to persons

passing by or dwelling or working in the neighborhood, shall be

punishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.

Section 309

309. Lopping of branches, etc. of tree or plant on a public

place.— Whoever, without the permission of the Commissioner,

lops or cuts the branches or twigs of any tree or plant standing on a

public place, or plucks the fruits, flowers or leaves of such tree or

plant, or causes any damage thereto, shall be punishable with fine

which may extend to one thousand rupees, or in the case of a

second or subsequent breach, to two thousand rupees.

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Section 318

318. Allowing dogs to be at large.— Whoever, being the owner

or person in charge of any dog, allows it to be at large in any street

without a muzzle— (a) if such dog is likely to annoy or intimidate

passers-by, or (b) if the Commissioner has by notice in the

prescribed manner during the prevalence of rabies directed that

dogs shall not be at large without muzzles, shall be punishable with

fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.

Section 319

319. Letting loose horse or other animals.— Whoever willfully

or negligently lets loose any horse or other animal so as to cause, or

negligently allows any horse or other animal to cause injury,

danger, alarm or annoyance to any person or damage to property,

shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five thousand

rupees.

Section 376

376. Power to demand punishment or dismissal.— Notwithstanding

anything contained in this Act, if in the opinion of the State

Government any officer or servant of the Corporation is negligent

in the discharge of his duties, the Corporation shall, on the

requirement of the State Government, suspend, fine or otherwise

punish him, and if in the opinion of the State Government he is

unfit for his employment, the Corporation shall dismiss him.

Section 387

387. Penalties for breach of bye-laws.— (1) In making a bye-

law under Section 386, the Corporation may provide that a breach

or any abatement of a breach of it shall be punishable. (a) with fine

which may extend to ten thousand rupees and in the case of a

continuing breach, with fine which may extend to one thousand

rupees for each day during which the breach continues after

conviction for the first breach, or (b) with fine which may extend to

one thousand rupees for every day during which the breach

continues after receipt of written notice from the Commissioner to

discontinue the breach.

(2) In lieu of or in addition to such fine, the Magistrate may

require the offender to remedy the mischief so far as is in his

power.

Sub-section (4)

of Section 391

(4) in making rules under clauses (d) and (i), and clauses (t) and

(u) of sub-section (2), the State Government may direct that a

breach of any provision thereof shall be punishable with fine which

may extend to five hundred rupees.

Sub-section (1)

of Section 392

(1) Whoever:

(a) contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or of the

rules made thereunder mentioned in the first column of the

following table, or (b) fails to comply with any direction

lawfully given to him or any requisition lawfully made upon him

under any of the said provisions or rules, shall be punishable

with a fine which may extend to the amount mentioned in the

third column of the said table.

Section 395

395. Penalty for obstruction.— Any person who willfully

obstructs any Corporation authority, or any Corporation officer or

servant, or any person authorized by any Corporation authority in

the exercise of powers conferred by this Act or any rules or

byelaws made thereunder shall be punished with fine which may

extend to one thousand rupees.

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Section 398

398. Penalty for disobedience of order of Corporation

authorities.— Whoever disobeys any lawful direction or

prohibition given by an authority of the Corporation by a public

notice or any written notice lawfully issued by it under the

provision this act, or fails to comply with the condition subject to

which any permission was given to him by an authority of the

Corporation under the said provision, shall, if the disobedience or

omission is not an offence punishable under any other section, be

punishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, and

in case of continuing breach, with a further fine which may extend

to one thousand rupees for every day after the first during which

the breach continues:

Provided that when the notice fixes a time within which a certain

act is to be done and no time is specified in this Act, it shall rest

with the magistrate trying an offence under this section to

determine whether the time so fixed was reasonable for purpose of

compliance with the notice.

The Goa

Panchayat Raj

Act, 1994 (Goa

Act No. 14 of

1994)

Sub-section (2)

of Section 27

(2) Any person who contravenes the provision of sub-section (1)

shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to

rupees five hundred.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 32

(2) An offence under sub-section (1) shall be cognizable.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 36

(2) Any person who contravenes the provision of sub-section (1)

shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to

two hundred and fifty rupees.

Sub-section (1)

of Section 38

(1) Any person who at a public meeting held in connection with

an election under this Act, acts or incites others to act, in a

disorderly manner for the purpose of preventing the transaction of

the business for which the meeting was called shall, on conviction

be punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.

Section 40

40. Penalty for illegal hiring or procuring of conveyance at

election.— If any person is guilty of any such corrupt practice as is

specified in clause (vi) of Section 23 at or in connection with an

election, he shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may

extend to five hundred rupees.

Section 88

88. Penalty for using water for certain purposes.— Whoever,—

(a) bathes in or defiles, the water in any place set apart for

drinking purposes by the Panchayat, or, in the case of private

property, by the owner thereof; or (b) deposits any offensive or

deleterious matter in the dry bed of any place set apart as aforesaid

for drinking purposes; or (c) washes clothing in any place set apart

as aforesaid for drinking or bathing; or (d) washes any animal or

any cooking utensils or wood, skins, or other foul or offensive

substances, or deposits, any offensive or deleterious matter in any

place set apart as aforesaid for drinking purposes or for bathing or

for washing clothes; or (e) allows the water from a sink, sewer,

drain, engine or boiler, or any other offensive matter belonging to

him or flowing from any building or land belonging to or occupied

by him, to pass into any place set apart as aforesaid for drinking

into any place set apart as aforesaid for drinking purposes or for

bathing or for washing clothes; or (f) uses water from any source in

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contravention of the provisions of Section 87; shall on conviction,

be punished with fine which may extend to fifty rupees and if the

offence be a continuing one, with further fine which may extend to

ten rupees for every day during which the said offence is continued

after the date of first conviction.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 90

(3) Any person who buries or otherwise disposes of any corpse

in any such place after the date specified in the said notification for

closure thereof or buries any corpse in any unoccupied Government

land not set apart for the burial of the dead under the provisions of

any law for the time being in force or by established usage, shall,

on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to one

hundred rupees.

Sub-section (3)

of Section 93

(3) Whoever washes such clothing or bedding or other articles at

any place other than those set apart for such purposes under sub-

section (1), shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may

extend to fifty rupees.

Section 110

110. Using offensive substance, etc.— Whoever, except with the

written permission of a Panchayat and except in the manner, if any,

enjoined in such permission, stores or uses night soil or other

substances emitting an offensive smell other than cattle manure

shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to

one hundred rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 111

(2) If any person shall, after such direction, use or permit to be

used, any such furnace not so constructed, supplemented or altered

or shall so negligently use or permit to be used any such furnace

that the smoke arising therefrom shall not be effectually consumed

or burnt as far as may be practicable, every person so offending

being the owner or occupier of the said works or buildings or being

an agent or other person employed by such owner or occupier for

managing the same, shall on conviction, be punished with fine

which may extend to one hundred rupees and upon any subsequent

conviction, with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees:

Provided that nothing in this section shall be held to apply to

locomotive engines used for the purpose of traffic upon any railway

or any other engines, for the repair of roads.

Section 112

112. Prohibition of nuisance.— Whoever, within a panchayat

area,—

(a) in any public street or public place,—

(i) eases himself; or

(ii) loiters or begs importunately for alms; or

(iii) expose or exhibits, with the object of exciting charity,

any deformity or disease or any offensive sore or wound; or

(iv) carries meat exposed to public view; or

(v) without proper authority defaces or writes upon or

otherwise marks any building monument, post, wall, fence,

tree or other thing; or

(vi) without proper authority affixes upon any building,

monument, post, wall, fence, tree or other thing any bill,

notice or other document; or

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otherwise obliterates any notice or other document put up or

exhibited under this Act or the rules or bye-laws made

thereunder; or

(b) at any time or place at which the same has been prohibited

by the Panchayat by public or special notice, beats any drum or

tom-tom or blows a horn or trumpet or beats any utensil or

sounds any brass or other instrument or plays any music; or

by singing, screaming or shouting or by using any apparatus for

amplifying or reproducing the human voice, such as megaphone

or a loudspeaker; or

(d) lets loose any animal so as to cause, or negligently allows

any animal to cause injury, danger, alarm or annoyance to any

person; or

(e) uses or permits to be used as a latrine any place not

intended for that purpose; shall, on conviction, be punished with

fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.

Sub-section (1)

of Section 112-B

(1) Whoever, within the limits of a village, allows any cattle

which are his property or in his charge to stray in any street or to

trespass upon any private or public property shall, on conviction, be

punished,—

(i) for the first offence, with a fine which may extend to

rupees two hundred;

(ii) for a second or subsequent offence, with a fine which may

extend to five hundred rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 112-C

(2) Whoever forcibly opposes the seizure of cattle liable to be

seized under the Act and whoever rescues the same after the

seizure, either from a pound or from any person taking or about to

take them to a pound, shall, on conviction, be punished with

imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or with a fine of

Rs. 1,000/-, or with both.

Sub-section (4)

of Section 187

(4) Any person who wilfully neglects or refuses to comply with

any requisition lawfully made under sub-section (3), shall on

conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to one

hundred rupees: Provided that no proceedings under this sub-

section shall be instituted without the sanction of the Chief

Executive Officer.

Section 209

209. Penalty for contravention of any order regarding

requisition.— If any person contravenes any order made under

section 203 or section 205 he shall, on conviction, be punished with

imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with fine

or with both.

Section 211

211. Penalty for acting as a member, Sarpanch or Deputy

Sarpanch of Village Panchayat and Adhyaksha or Upadhyaksha of

Zilla Panchayat when disqualified.— (1) Whoever acts as a

member of Panchayat or Zilla Panchayat when he knows that under

this Act or the rules made thereunder, he is not entitled to or has

ceased to be entitled to hold office as such, shall, on conviction, be

punished with fine of one hundred rupees for every day on which

he sits or votes as member.

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(2) Whoever acts as the Sarpanch or Deputy Sarpanch of

Panchayat or Adhyaksha or Upadhyaksha of Zilla Panchayat or

exercises any of his functions when he knows that under this Act or

the rules made thereunder, he is not entitled to or has ceased to be

entitled to hold office as such, or to exercise such functions shall,

on conviction, be punished with fine of two hundred rupees for

every day on which he acts or functions as such.

(3) Any person who has been the Sarpanch or Deputy Sarpanch

of a Panchayat, or Adhyaksha or Upadhyaksha of Zilla Panchayat

fails to hand over any document or any moneys or other properties

vested in, or belonging to, the Panchayat or the Zilla Panchayat, as

the case may be, which are in or have come into his possession or

control, to his successor in office or other prescribed authority,—

(a) in every case as soon as his term of office as Sarpanch or

Deputy Sarpanch of Panchayat and Adhyaksha or Upadhyaksha of

Zilla Panchayat expires; and (b) in the case of a person who was

Deputy Sarpanch on demand by the Sarpanch of the Panchayat and

Upadhyaksha of the Zilla Panchayat; shall, on conviction, be

punished with a fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.

Section 212

212. Penalty for interested member voting.— Whosoever votes

as member of a Panchayat or Zilla Panchayat in contravention of

the provisions of sub-section (4) of Section 55 or clause (g) of sub-

section (2) of Section 136, shall on conviction, be punished with

fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.

Section 213

213. Penalty for acquisition by officer or servant of interest in

contract.— If any member, officer or servant of a Panchayat or

Zilla Panchayat knowingly acquires for himself directly or

indirectly, by himself or by a partner, employer or servant, any

share or interest in any contract or employment with, by or on

behalf of a Panchayat or Zilla Panchayat he shall, on conviction, be

punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees:

Provided that no person shall, by reason of being a shareholder, in

or member of, any company, be held to be interested in any

contract entered into between such company and the Panchayat or

Zilla Panchayat unless he is a Director of such company: Provided

further that nothing in this section shall apply to any person who,

with the sanction of the Director enters into a contract with a

Panchayat or Zilla Panchayat.

Section 214

214. Wrongful obstruction of certain officers.— Any person who

prevents the Chief Executive Officer or the Secretary or any person

to whom such officer has lawfully delegated his powers from

entering on or into any place, building or land, from exercising his

lawful power of entering thereon or, therein shall, on conviction, be

punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to

one month or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or

with both.

Section 215

215. Prohibition against obstruction of Sarpanch or Deputy

Sarpanch, etc.— Any person obstructing a Sarpanch, Deputy

Sarpanch, Secretary or member of a Panchayat, Adhyaksha,

Upadhyaksha, Chief Executive Officer or member of a Zilla

Panchayat or any person employed by the Panchayat or Zilla

Panchayat or any person with whom a contract has been entered

into by or on behalf of a Panchayat or Zilla Panchayat in the

discharge of his duty of anything which he is empowered or required

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to do by virtue, or in consequence of this Act or any rules, bye-

laws, regulation or order made thereunder, shall, on conviction, be

punished with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.

Section 216

216. Prohibition against removal or obliteration of notice.— Any

person, who without authority in the behalf, removes, destroys,

defaces or otherwise obliterates any notice exhibited or any sign or

mark erected by or under the orders of, a Panchayat, or Zilla

Panchayat or its executive authority, shall, on conviction, be

punished with fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.

Section 217

217. Penalty for not furnishing information or giving false

information.— Any person who is required by this Act or by any

notice or by other proceedings issued thereunder to furnish any

information, fails to furnish any information or knowingly

furnishes false information, shall, on conviction, be punished with

fine which may extend to one hundred rupees.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 218

(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of sub-section

(1) shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to

five hundred rupees, and if he is an officer or employee of the

Panchayat or Zilla Panchayat, shall also be liable for dismissal

from service.

Section 223

223. Punishment for disobedience or orders and notices not

punishable under any other section.— Whoever disobeys or fails to

comply with any lawful direction given by way of written notice

issued by or on behalf of a Panchayat, or Zilla Panchayat under any

power conferred by this Act or fails to comply with the conditions

subject to which any permission was given to him by the

Panchayat, or Zilla Panchayat concerned under any power so

conferred, shall, on conviction, if the disobedience or failure is not

an offence punishable under any other section, be punished with

fine which may extend to one hundred rupees and with further fine

which may extend to five rupees for every day during which the

said disobedience or failure continues after the date of first

conviction: Provided that when the notice fixes a time within which

a certain act is to be done, and no time is specified in this Act, the

Magistrate shall determine whether the time so fixed was

reasonable.

Sub-section (1)

of Section 228

(1) Whoever,— (a) rents, alters, adds to or reconstructs a

building without the written permission required by Section 66 or

in contravention of any of the conditions imposed by it; (b) uses

any place without a licence required by Sections 68, 69, 70 and 71

or in contravention of any of the conditions or during the

suspension of the licence; or (c) contravenes any other provision of

this Act, shall on conviction, be punished with fine which may

extend to five hundred rupees, and in the case of a continuing

offence with a fine which may extend to five rupees for every day

after the first conviction during which the offence continues.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 236

(2) Whoever contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1), shall

be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to

three months or with fine which may extend to rupees five

thousand or with both and in the case of continuing contravention,

with a further fine which may extend to rupees five hundred for

each day during which the contravention continues.

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Labour Welfare

Fund Act, 1986

(Act 4 of 1987)

Sub-section (2)

of Section 3

(2) There shall also be credited to the Fund—

(a) unpaid accumulations paid to the Board under sub-section

(2) of Section 12;

(b) deductions made under the proviso to sub-section (2) of

Section 9 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (Central Act 4 of

1936);

(d) any interest by way of penalty paid under Section 13;

(e) any voluntary donations;

(f) any fund transferred under sub-section (5) of Section 16;

(g) any sum borrowed under Section 17;

(h) grants or advances made by the Government; and

(i) all fines imposed and realised from employers by courts

for violations of Labour Laws less the deduction made by Court

towards administrative expenses.

Sub-section (1)

of Section 13

(1) If an employer does not pay to the Board any amount of

unpaid accumulation or fines realised from the employees, within

the time specified by or under this Act, the Secretary may serve or

cause to be served a notice on such employer to pay the amount

within the period specified therein which shall not be less than

thirty days from the date of service of such notice.

Sub-section (2)

of Section 16

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-

section (1), the money in the Fund may be utilised by the Board to

defray expenditure on the following, namely:—

(a) community and special education centres, including

reading rooms and Libraries;

(b) vocational trainings;

(d) excursions and tours;

(e) community necessities;

(f) entertainment and other forms of recreation;

(g) convalescent homes for tuberculosis patients;

(h) holiday homes in health resorts;

(i) home industries and subsidiary occupations for women and

unemployed;

(j) part-time employment for housewives of employees;

(k) pre-schools, nurseries and creches for employees;

(l) nutritious food to children of employees;

(m) employment opportunities to the disabled employees;

(n) cost of administering this Act including the salaries and all

allowances of the staff appointed for the purposes of this Act;

and

(o) such other objects as would, in the opinion of the Board,

improve the standard of living and ameliorate the social

conditions of labour;

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(q) any scheme approved by the Government for the benefit

of retrenched workmen and other workmen affected by layoff or

closure of industrial establishments.

Provided that the Fund shall not be utilised in financing any

measure which the employer is required under any law for the time

being in force to carry out:

Provided further that the fines shall be ex-pended by the Board

under this Act notwithstanding anything contained in the Payment

of Wages Act, 1936 (Central Act 4 of 1936) or any other law or

agreement for the time being in force.

Section 26

26. Penalty for non-compliance with direction.— Any person

who wilfully fails to produce any document required by the Board

or to furnish any information called for by the Board or wilfully

fails to comply with any directions issued by the Board under

Section 25, shall, on conviction be punished—

(a) for the first offence, with imprisonment for a term which

may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to

five hundred rupees, or with both; and

(b) for a second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for

a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may

extend to one thousand rupees, or with both:

Provided that in the absence of special and adequate reasons to

the contrary to be mentioned in the judgment of the court, in any

case where the offender is sentenced to fine only, the amount of

fine shall not be less than hundred rupees.

Section 27

27. Penalty for obstructing inspection or for failure to produce

documents, etc.— Any person who wilfully obstructs an Inspector

in the exercise of his powers or discharge of his duties under this

Act or fails to produce for inspection on demand by an Inspector

any registers, record or other documents maintained in pursuance

of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder or to

supply to him on demand true copies of any such document, shall,

on conviction, be punished—

(a) for the first offence, with imprisonment for a term which

may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to

five hundred rupees, or with both; and

(b) for a second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for

a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may

extend to one thousand rupees, or with both:

Provided that in the absence of special and adequate reasons

to the contrary to be mentioned in the judgement of the court, in

any case where the offender is sentenced to fine only, the

amount of fine shall not be less than hundred rupees.

Section 29

29. General provision for punishment for offences.— Any

employer who contravenes any provision of this Act or of any rule

or order made thereunder shall, if no other penalty is provided

separately under this Act, be punishable with imprisonment which

may extend to six months or with a fine which may extend to one

thousand rupees or with both.

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Section 29A

29A. Compounding of Offences.— (1) Any offence punishable

under this Act, not being an offence punishable with imprisonment

only, or with imprisonment and also with fine, may, on an

application of the accused person, either before or after the

institution of any prosecution, be compounded by such Officer, as

the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,

specify, for a sum equivalent to seventy-five percent of the

maximum fine provided for such offence, in such manner as

prescribed.

(2) Nothing contained in sub-section (1) shall apply to an

offence committed by a person for the second time or thereafter

within a period of five years from the date,—

(a) of commission of a similar offence which was earlier

compounded; (b) of commission of a similar offence for which

such person was earlier convicted.

(3) Every officer referred to in sub-section (1) shall exercise the

powers to compound an offence, subject to the direction, control

and supervision of the Government.

(4) Every application for the compounding of an offence shall be

made in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed.

(5) Where any offence is compounded before the institution of

any prosecution, no prosecution shall be instituted in relation to

such offence, against the offender in relation to whom the offence

is so compounded.

(6) Where the composition of any offence is made after the

institution of any prosecution, such composition shall be brought

by the officer referred to in sub-section (1) in writing to the notice

of the court in which the prosecution is pending and on such notice

of the composition of the offence being given, the person against

whom the offence is so compounded shall be discharged.

(7) Any person who fails to comply with an order made by the

officer referred to in sub-section (1), shall be liable to pay a sum

equivalent to twenty percent of the maximum fine provided for the

offence, in addition to such fine.

(8) No offence punishable under the provisions of this Act shall

be compounded except under and in accordance with the provisions

of this section

Sub-section (3)

of Section 37

(3) Any rule made under this section may provide that a

contravention thereof shall be punishable with a fine which may

extend to five hundred rupees.

Section 41

41. Realisation of fines and remittance thereof.— All fines

recovered from the wages of an employee under the respective

conditions of services in an establishment shall be recorded in a

for payment of wages to such employee and all such recoveries

shall be credited to the Labour Welfare Fund constituted under

section 3 in the manner prescribed.

The Goa,

Daman and Diu

Public Health

Act, 1985 (Act

No. 25 of 1985)

Sub-section (4)

of Section 53

(4) Whoever—

(a) obstructs the removal of any person to any hospital or

other place under sub-section (1), or

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(2)

(3)

(4)

(b) leaves or takes away any person from any such hospital or

place in contravention of sub-section (3), shall be punished with

imprisonment which may extend to three months or with fine or

with both.

Section 97

97. Penalty for breach of rules.— (1) In making a rule under

section 75, the Government may provide that a breach of such rule

shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to three

months or with fine or with both.

(2) In making a rule under any other provision contained in this

Act, the Government may provide that a breach of such rule shall

be punishable— (i) with fine which may extend to one hundred

rupees and in case of a continuing breach, with fine which may

extend to thirty rupees for every day during which the breach

continues after conviction for the first breach; or (ii) with fine

which may extend to twenty rupees for every day during which the

breach continues after receipt of notice from the local authority or

the Health Officer to discontinue such breach.

Section 102

102. Penalty for preventing entry of local authority or Health

Officer.— Every person who prevents the local authority or the

Health Officer or any person to whom the local authority or the

Health Officer has lawfully delegated his powers of entering on or

into any land or building from exercising his lawful power of

entering thereon or therein to, shall be punished with simple

imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month or with

fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.

10.

The Goa Non-

Biodegradable

Garbage

(Control) Act,

1996 (Goa Act

No. 5 of 1997)

Section 5A

5A. Penalty for contravening provision of Section 5.— (1)

Whoever contravenes any of the provisions of Section 5 of this Act

shall be punishable with,—

(a) a fine of Rs. 200/- (Rupees two hundred only) for the first

offence, Rs. 500/- (Rupees five hundred only) for the second

offence, and Rs. 5000/- (Rupees five thousand only) for every

subsequent offence, when the offence is in relation to a

residential house;

(b) a fine of Rs. 25,000/- (Rupees twenty-five thousand only)

for the first offence, Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees fifty thousand only)

for the second offence, and Rs. 1,00,000/- (Rupees one lakh

only) for every subsequent offence, when the offence is in

relation to a commercial establishment.

Section 5B

5B. Penalty for contravening provisions of Section 3A.—

(1) whoever contravenes provisions of sub-section (1) of Section

3A shall be punishable with a fine of Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees fifty

thousand only) for the first offence, Rs. 1,00,000/- (Rupees one

lakh only) for the second offence and Rs. 3,00,000/- (Rupees three

lakhs only) for every subsequent offence.

(2) Whoever contravenes provisions of sub-section (2) of

Section 3A shall be punishable with,—

(i) a fine of Rs. 2,500/- (Rupees two thousand five hundred

only) for the first offence, Rs. 3,500/- (Rupees three thousand

five hundred only) for the second offence and Rs. 5,000/-

(Rupees five thousand only), for every subsequent offence, when

the offence is in relation to an individual;

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(3)

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(ii) a fine of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand only) for the

first offence, Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees twenty thousand only) for the

second offence and Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees fifty thousand only),

for every subsequent offence, when offence is in relation to

commercial establishment;

(3) Whoever contravenes provisions of sub-section (3) of

Section 3A shall be punishable with a fine of Rs. 5,000/- (Rupees

five thousand only) in case of simple burning, Rs. 25,000/- (Rupees

twenty-five thousand only) in case of bulk burning, for the first

offence and for subsequent offences Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees ten

thousand only) for simple burning and Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees fifty

thousand only) for bulk burning.”.

Section 8

8. Penalties.— (1) Save as provided in Section 5A of this Act,

whoever is guilty of any act ]or intentional omission in

contravention of any of the provisions of this Act, or of any rules,

notification or order made, issued or given under this Act, shall be

punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one

month or with fine which may extend to rupees five thousand, or

with both.

(2) Whoever having been convicted of an offence under this Act

is again convicted of any offence under this Act shall be punishable

with double the penalty provided for the latter offence.

(3) Whoever in any manner aids abets or is accessory to the

commission of an offence under this Act shall on conviction be

punished with imprisonment prescribed for the offence.

11.

The Goa (Right

of Citizens to

Time-Bound

Delivery of

Public Services)

Act, 2013 (Goa

Act 19 of 2013)

Section 12

12. Penalty for not providing public service.— Where the

Appellate Authority is of the opinion that the designated officer has

failed to provide the public service to the eligible person or has

caused delay in providing the public service or has provided the

public service which is deficient in any manner, it may impose a

fine on such designated officer— (i) of rupees fifty for each day or

rupees two thousand five hundred, whichever is less, in case of

failure to provide public service; (ii) of rupees fifty for each day of

such delay or rupees two thousand five hundred, whichever is less,

in case of delay in providing public service; and (iii) of rupees five

hundred, in case of deficiency in public service provided: Provided

that before imposing such fine, the designated officer shall be given

a reasonable opportunity of being heard.

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