{"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":"24","heading":"Appeal against notice served under sub-section (1) of section 23","text":"Where the person on whom notice to remove an encroachment has been served under sub-section (1) of section 23 lays claim that the land in respect of which encroachment has been alleged in his property or that he has acquired a right over it by virtue of adverse possession or otherwise, he shall, within the time-limit prescribed in the notice for the removal of the encroachment, file an appeal before the Collector under intimation to the Highway Authority or the officer authorised under sub-section (1) of section 21, as the case may be. The Collector shall after due enquiry record his decision in writing and communicate the same to the appellant and the Highway Authority or such officer. The Highway Authority or such officer shall till then desist from taking further action in the matter.","html":"<p>Where the person on whom notice to remove an encroachment has been served under sub-section (1) of section <a href=\"/goa-daman-diu-highways-act-1974/section/23/\">23</a> lays claim that the land in respect of which encroachment has been alleged in his property or that he has acquired a right over it by virtue of adverse possession or otherwise, he shall, within the time-limit prescribed in the notice for the removal of the encroachment, file an appeal before the Collector under intimation to the Highway Authority or the officer authorised under sub-section (1) of section <a href=\"/goa-daman-diu-highways-act-1974/section/21/\">21</a>, as the case may be. The Collector shall after due enquiry record his decision in writing and communicate the same to the appellant and the Highway Authority or such officer. The Highway Authority or such officer shall till then desist from taking further action in the matter.</p>","words":135,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/goa-daman-diu-highways-act-1974/section/24/","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."}