{"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":"42","heading":"Inquiry and order","text":"On the date fixed under section 41 or on such other date to which the inquiry may be adjourned the officer authorised under section 41 shall, after holding a formal inquiry and after hearing the objections, if any, stated by the persons as required by notice under section 41, make an order. The order shall specify- (a) the lands benefited by the construction of the work; (b) the increase in the value of such lands by the proposed construction; (c) the amount of the betterment charges leviable on each of the said lands; (d) the date from which such betterment charges shall be leviable: Provided that no betterment charges shall be leviable in respect of any land- (a) which is unsuitable for development as a building site, or (b) which is situate beyond a distance of two hundred metres from the middle of the highway on either side.","html":"<p>On the date fixed under section <a href=\"/goa-daman-diu-highways-act-1974/section/41/\">41</a> or on such other date to which the inquiry may be adjourned the officer authorised under section <a href=\"/goa-daman-diu-highways-act-1974/section/41/\">41</a> shall, after holding a formal inquiry and after hearing the objections, if any, stated by the persons as required by notice under section <a href=\"/goa-daman-diu-highways-act-1974/section/41/\">41</a>, make an order. The order shall specify- (a) the lands benefited by the construction of the work; (b) the increase in the value of such lands by the proposed construction; (c) the amount of the betterment charges leviable on each of the said lands; (d) the date from which such betterment charges shall be leviable: Provided that no betterment charges shall be leviable in respect of any land- (a) which is unsuitable for development as a building site, or (b) which is situate beyond a distance of two hundred metres from the middle of the highway on either side.</p>","words":148,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/goa-daman-diu-highways-act-1974/section/42/","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."}