{"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":"57","heading":"Unauthorised occupation of highway","text":"Whoever- - (a) occupies or makes any encroachment on any highway in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 21, or (b) fails to comply with the notice served on him under sub-section (1) of section 23 for no valid reason- shall on conviction be punished (a) for a first offence with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees. (b) for a subsequent offence in relation to the same encroachment with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees plus a further fine not exceeding fifty rupees per day on which such occupation of the highway or encroachment continues.","html":"<p>Whoever- - (a) occupies or makes any encroachment on any highway in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1) of section <a href=\"/goa-highways-act-1974/section/21/\">21</a>, or (b) fails to comply with the notice served on him under sub-section (1) of section <a href=\"/goa-highways-act-1974/section/23/\">23</a> for no valid reason- shall on conviction be punished (a) for a first offence with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees. (b) for a subsequent offence in relation to the same encroachment with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees plus a further fine not exceeding fifty rupees per day on which such occupation of the highway or encroachment continues.</p>","words":104,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/goa-highways-act-1974/section/57/","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."}