{"act":{"id":"goa-highways-act-1974","short_title":"The Goa Highways Act, 1974","long_title":null,"act_number":"10","act_year":1974,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Goa","unit":"section","section_count":75,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/180f88b5-26ca-47fb-a5a7-e0b1b9f70822.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/goa-highways-act-1974/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"5","heading":"Powers and duties of Highway Authorities","text":"Subject to such conditions as may be specified in the notification appointing a Highway Authority and subject to the general or special orders of the Government, a Highway Authority shall exercise powers and discharge duties in accordance with the provisions of this Act for the restriction of ribbon development along highways, for the prevention and removal of encroachments and for all matters necessary and incidental to any or all of the above subjects. Also subject to the approval of the Government and to such general or special orders which the Government may make in this behalf, it shall be lawful for a Highway Authority to undertake the construction, maintenance, development or improvement of highways.","html":"<p>Subject to such conditions as may be specified in the notification appointing a Highway Authority and subject to the general or special orders of the Government, a Highway Authority shall exercise powers and discharge duties in accordance with the provisions of this Act for the restriction of ribbon development along highways, for the prevention and removal of encroachments and for all matters necessary and incidental to any or all of the above subjects. Also subject to the approval of the Government and to such general or special orders which the Government may make in this behalf, it shall be lawful for a Highway Authority to undertake the construction, maintenance, development or improvement of highways.</p>","words":114,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/goa-highways-act-1974/section/5/","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/180f88b5-26ca-47fb-a5a7-e0b1b9f70822.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/a99850b7-9411-4ba1-9bfc-8ed11419fceb/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."}