GOA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2022

[Act No. 28 of 2022]

[03rd October, 2022]

PREAMBLE

An Act further to amend the Goa Information Technology Development Act, 2007 (Goa Act 10 of 2007).

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Goa in the Seventy-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:--

Section 1 - Short title and commencement

(1)     This Act may be called the Goa Information Technology Development (Amendment) Act, 2022.

(2)     It shall come into force at once.

Section 2 - Section 2

Substitution of section 50 for section 50 of the Goa Information Technology Development Act, 2007 (Goa Act 10 of 2007), the following section shall be substituted, namely:--

"50. Penalty for obstruction.-

(1)     Any person who obstructs the entry of a person authorised under section 35 or any person with whom the Corporation has entered into a contract for the performance and execution of any act by such person, to enter into or upon any land or building or molests such person after such entry or who obstructs the lawful exercise by him of any power conferred by or under this Act shall, on conviction by a competent Court, be punished with fine which may extend upto fifty thousand rupees.

(2)     If any person removes any mark setup for the purpose of indicating any level, boundary line or direction necessary to the execution of works authorized under this Act, he shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend upto fifty thousand rupees."