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The Goa, Daman and Diu Reorganisation Act, 1987

68 sections · As amended up to 2026-08

Sections

  1. 130th May, 1987, vide notification No. S.O. 518(E), dated 26th May, 1987, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii)
  2. 2Definition
  3. 3Formation of State of Goa
  4. 4Formation of Union territory of Daman and Diu
  5. 5[
  6. 7Election to fill the seat allotted to the State of Goa
  7. 8Allocation of seats in the House of the People
  8. 9Parliamentary constituency of the Union territory of Daman and Diu
  9. 11Provisions as to sitting members
  10. 12Provisions as to Legislative Assembly
  11. 13Provisional Legislative Assembly
  12. 15Speaker of the provisional Legislative Assembly
  13. 16Rules of procedure
  14. 17Delimitation of constituencies
  15. 18Power of Election Commission to maintain delimitation orders up-to-date
  16. 20Common High Court for Maharashtra, Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
  17. 21Provision as to advocates
  18. 22Practice and procedure in the common High Court
  19. 23Custody of seal of the common High Court
  20. 24Form of writs and other processes
  21. 25Powers of Judges
  22. 26Principal seat and other places of sitting of the common High Court
  23. 27Procedure as to appeals to Supreme Court
  24. 28Transfer of proceedings to the common High Court
  25. 29Interpretation, etc
  26. 30Saving
  27. 31Authorisation of expenditure pending its sanction by the Legislature
  28. 32Reports relating to the accounts of the existing Union territory
  29. 33Distribution of revenues
  30. 34Definition
  31. 35Land and goods
  32. 36Cash balances
  33. 37Arrears of taxes
  34. 38Right to recover loans and advances
  35. 39Investments in and loans, etc., to certain corporate bodies
  36. 40Assets and liabilities of State undertakings
  37. 41Refund of taxes collected in excess
  38. 42Certain deposits
  39. 43Provident fund
  40. 44Pensions granted by the Administrator, etc
  41. 45Contracts
  42. 46Liability in respect of actionable wrong
  43. 47Liability as guarantor of co-operative societies
  44. 48Items in suspense
  45. 49Residuary provision
  46. 50Apportionment of assets or liabilities by agreement
  47. 51Power of Central Government to order allocation or adjustment in certain cases
  48. 52Continuance of certain arrangements
  49. 53Provision as to co-operative banks
  50. 54General provisions as to statutory corporations
  51. 55Temporary provisions as to continuance of certain existing road transport permits
  52. 56Special provision relating to retrenchment compensation in certain cases
  53. 57Special provision as to income-tax
  54. 58Continuance of existing facilities in certain institutions
  55. 59Provisions relating to All India Services
  56. 60Provisions relating to other services
  57. 61Provisions as to continuance of officers in the same posts
  58. 62Powers of Central Government to give directions
  59. 63[
  60. 64[
  61. 65[
  62. 66Territorial extent of laws
  63. 67Power to adapt laws
  64. 68Power to construe laws
  65. 69Provisions as to continuance of courts, etc
  66. 70Effect of provisions of Act inconsistent with other laws
  67. 71Power to remove difficulties
  68. 72Power to make rules