{"act":{"id":"goa-daman-diu-highways-act-1974","short_title":"The Goa, Daman and Diu Highways Act, 1974","long_title":null,"act_number":"10","act_year":1974,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu","unit":"section","section_count":74,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/e7279a33-745a-4f91-9c16-64c681a2bea6.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/goa-daman-diu-highways-act-1974/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"13","heading":"Regulation or diversion of right of access to highway","text":"(1) The Highway Authority may, if it is considered essential in the interests of safety or convenience of traffic, regulate or divert any existing right of access to a highway across land lying between the control line and the highway boundary: Provided that the existing right of access shall not be diverted until alternative access has been given. (2) Where the existing right of access is diverted, the point at which alternative access is given to the highway shall not be unreasonably distant from the existing point of access. (3) The Highway Authority shall, by notification in the Official Gazette, publish the date on which the existing right of access has been diverted and alternative access has been given.","html":"<p>(1) The Highway Authority may, if it is considered essential in the interests of safety or convenience of traffic, regulate or divert any existing right of access to a highway across land lying between the control line and the highway boundary: Provided that the existing right of access shall not be diverted until alternative access has been given. (2) Where the existing right of access is diverted, the point at which alternative access is given to the highway shall not be unreasonably distant from the existing point of access. (3) The Highway Authority shall, by notification in the Official Gazette, publish the date on which the existing right of access has been diverted and alternative access has been given.</p>","words":119,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/goa-daman-diu-highways-act-1974/section/13/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/e7279a33-745a-4f91-9c16-64c681a2bea6.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/8a398948-755b-4f34-9f48-98098cab76c2/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}