GOVERNMENT  OF  MAHARASHTRA

LAW  AND  JUDICIARY  DEPARTMENT

MAHARASHTRA  ACT  NO.  V  OF  1968.

  THE  BOMBAY  QUEEN  VICTORIA  STATUE  SITE  (AND
ADJOINING  LAND  UTILIZATION  FOR  CONSTRUCTION  OF
SATELLITE  TELECOMMUNNICATIONS  EXCHANGES  OF

THE  OVERSEAS  COMMUNICATIONS  SERVICE)  ACT,  1968.

(As modified up to the 30th April 2013)

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GOVERNMENT  OF  MAHARASHTRA

LAW  AND  JUDICIARY  DEPARTMENT

MAHARASHTRA  ACT  NO.  V  OF  1968.

  THE  BOMBAY  QUEEN  VICTORIA  STATUE  SITE  (AND
ADJOINING  LAND  UTILIZATION  FOR  CONSTRUCTION  OF
SATELLITE  TELECOMMUNNICATIONS  EXCHANGES  OF

THE  OVERSEAS  COMMUNICATIONS  SERVICE)  ACT,  1968.

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THE BOMBAY QUEEN VICTORIA STATUE SITE (AND ADJOINING
LAND UTILIZATION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF SATELLITE
TELECOMMUNICATIONS EXCHANGES OF THE OVERSEAS
COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE) ACT, 1968.
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CONTENTS

PREAMBLE.

SECTIONS.

1. Short title and commencement.

2. Vesting of Queen Victoria Statue site at Bombay and adjoining land in
Government and payment of compensation to Municipal Corporation.

3. Use of site and land vested in State Government for setting up Satellite
Telecommunications Exchanges of the Overseas Communications Service
by Government of India and changes in Development Plan, Development
Control Rules, Building Regulations, etc. for enabling construction of the
Exchanges.

4. Repeal of Mah. Ord. I of 1968 and saving.

THE SCHEDULE.

1968 : Mah. V]

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MAHARASHTRA ACT No. V OF 1968.1

[THE BOMBAY QUEEN VICTORIA SITE (AND ADJOINING LAND UTILIZATION
FOR CONSTRUCTION OF SATELLITE TELECOMMUNICATIONS EXCHANGES
OF THE OVERSEAS COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE) ACT, 1968].

[19th March 1968]

An Act to make provision for placing the Queen Victoria statue site at Bombay
and certain land adjacent thereto at the disposal of the Government of India for
setting  up  of  Satellite  Telecommunications  Exchanges  of  the  Overseas
Communications Service and for that purpose to amend the Bombay municipal
Corporation Act and to take power to make certain changes in the Development
Plan, Development Control Rules and Building Regulations, etc.

Bom. III
of 1888.

WHEREAS, by Section 89-B of the Bombay Municipal Corporation Act, all the
estate, right, title and interest of Government in and to the statue of Her Majesty
Queen Victoria and the site thereof in the Esplanade Road at Bombay were
vested in the Municipal Corporation and it was provided that the, said statue
and the said site shall thereafter, be held by the Corporation in trust as a public
monument;

AND WHEREAS, the said statue (along with other statues of foreign sovereigns
and  administrators)  has  been  removed  from  the  said  site,  on  the  12th  day  of
August 1965;

AND WHEREAS, the purpose for which the site was vested and the trust was

created, no longer exist;

AND WHEREAS, it is expedient that the said trust be revoked and extinguished
and the said site which is vested in the Corporation therefor be divested from
the Corporation and revested in the State Government;

AND  WHEREAS,  the  said  site  and  certain  land  adjacent  thereto  are
immediately required for th setting up of Satellite Telecommunications Exchanges
of the Overseas Communications Service for participating in the Global Satellite
Communications System beirsgset up for the carriage of international public
communications by the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortiui
(INTELSAT)  consisting  of  60  nations  (of  which  India  Is  a  member)  who  are
signatories to an agreement fr setting up a global comnunications satellite system;

AND WHEREAS, the said site and the land adjacent thereto are most suitable
for the said Excbanges; being within the required distance of the Waudby Road
Exchange  through  which  the  messages  and  information  received,  will  be
distributed throughout India;

AND WHEREAS, it is necessary to make immediate provision for placing the
said site of the Queen’s statue aforesaid and certain land adjacent thereto at the
disposal of the Government of India in the Ministry of Communications for the
aforesaid  purpose,  for  the  immediate  commencement  of  construction  of  the
Exchanges,  and  also  to  make  consequential  and  supplemental  provisions

1For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see. Maharashtra Government Gazette, 1968,

Part- V. Extra pge 97.

Short  titte
and com-
mencement.

Vesting 
of
Queen Victoria
statue  site  at
Bombay  and
adjoining  land
in Government
and payment of
compensation
to  Municipal
Corporation.

2         Bombay Queen Victoria statue site (and adjoining land
        utilization for construction of Satellite Telecommunications
      Exchanges of the Overseas Communications Service) Act, 1968.

[1968 : Mah. V

(including any changes which may be necessary in the Development Plan for
Greater Bombay, the Development Control Rules, the Municipal Corporation
Building Regulations and in matters related thereto), for enabling the speedy
construction and efficient working thereafter, of the Exchanges aforesaid ; It is
hereby enacted in the Nineteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :–

1. (1) This Act may be called the Bombay Queen Victoria statue site (and
adjoining  land  utilization  for  construction  of  Satellite  Telecommunications
Exchanges of the Overseas Communications Service) Act, 1968.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 12th day of January 1968.

 2. (1) The statue of Her Majesty Queen Victoria having been removed from
the site vested in and held by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay in
trust as statue site a public monument and the site no longer being required for
the purpose of the trust, the trust aforesaid shall be and is hereby revoked and
extinguished and all the estate, right, title and interest of the Corporation in
and to the said site shall be and is hereby divested from the Corporation and is
hereby revested, without further assurance, in the State Government, free from
all rights and liabilities and charges of whatsoever affecting the same and the
State  Government  shall  take  possession  immediately  of  the  said  site.  In
consequence  of  the  revocation  and  extinguishment  of  the  said  trust,  Section
89-B of the Bombay Municipal Corporation Act shall be  deleted and in the proviso
to Section 92 of the said Act, the words "to the statue of Her Majesty Queen
Victoria or" shall be deleted and for the words, figures and letters "or to the sites
thereof referred to in Sections 89-B and 89-C" the words, figures and letter "or to
the site thereof referred to in Section 89-C" shall be substituted.

(2) The land adjacent to the site of the aforesaid statue, more particularly
described in the Schedule, shall be and is hereby divested from the Corporation,
and is hereby vested, without further assurance, in the State Government, free
from all rights, liabilities and charges whatsoever, whether of individuals or of
the  Corporation  or  of  the  public,  affecting  the  same.  The  State  Government
shall take possession immediately of the said land.

Bom.  III
of 1888.

(3) For the site and land so revested or vested in the State Government, such
compensation may be paid by that Government as may be agreed upon with the
Corporation; and In default of agreement as may be determined by a person
appointed by the State Government, who shall determine the compensation in
accordance with the principles for determining compensation laid down in the
Land Acquisition Act, 1894 and the provisions of that Act (including provisions
for reference to Court and appeal) shall apply there to mutatis mutandis as if
the Site and land had been acquired and compensation to be determined under
the provisions of the said Act.

I of
1894.

3. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Bombay Municipal Corporation

Bom. III
of 1888.
Mah.
XXX-VII
of 1966.

                 Bombay Queen Victoria statue site (and adjoining land

1968 : Mah. V]
                       utilization for construction of Satellite Telecommunications

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      Exchanges of the Overseas Communications Service) Act, 1968.

Act or in the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966 (including any
Building Regulations, Development Control Rules or Development Plan made
or sanctioned under those Acts) or in any other law for the time being in force,
the State Government may allow the use of the aforesaid site and land adjacent
thereto  for  the  setting  up  of  Satellite  Telecomnunications  Exchanges  of  the
Overseas Communications Service and for that purpose may transfer the site
and land adjacent thereto to the Government of India on such terms and conditions
and  imposing  such  restrictions  as  it  may  think  fit  to  impose  and  the  State
Government shall have power to remove any land from any reservation made in
the Development Plan for Greater Bombay and to relax any restrictions as to
the floor space index or to fix some other floor space index or to remove or relax
any  other  terms  and  conditions  and  restrictions  regarding  the  development
control  and  building  rules  and  regulations  and  in  respect  of  matters  related
thereto regard being had to the necessity therefore, for enabling the proper and
efficient, building and working of the said Exchanges.

Mag.
Ord. I
of 1968.

4. (1) The Bombay Queen Victoria statue site (and adjoining land utilization
for  construction  of  Satellite  Telecommunications  Exchanges  of  the  Overseas
Communications Service) Ordinance, 1968, is hereby repealed.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under
the said Ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or taken under this Act.

Use of site and
land vested in
State Govern-
ment for
setting up
satelliteTelecom-
munications
Exchanges of
the Overseas
Communica-
tions Service
by Govern-
ment of India,
and changcs in
Development
Plan, develop-
ment Control
Rules, Building
Regulation,
etc.  for
enabling
construction
of the
Exchanges.

Repeal of
Mah. Ord. I of
1968 and
saving.

4         Bombay Queen Victoria statue site (and adjoining land
        utilization for construction of Satellite Telecommunications
      Exchanges of the Overseas Communications Service) Act, 1968.

[1968 : Mah. V

THE  SCHEDULE
Description and plan of the Queen Victoria statue site and land adjacent
thereto vested in the State Government under Section 2.
DESCRIPTION

(a) All that piece or parcel of land comprised in Queen Victoria statue site
containing, by admeasurement, 1013 sq. yards i.e. 847 sq. metres or thereabout
and bearing Cadestral Survey No. 733 of Fort division and bounded as follows:
that is to say, on or towards the South by the public street and beyond it the
property of Central Telegraph Office bearing C. S. No. 708, on or towards theWest
by the Mayo Road, on or towards the East by the. Mahatma Gandhi Road (formerly
known as Esplanade Road) and or towards the North by the road junction.The
boundaries of the above land are shown in red colour on the plan below.

(b) The portion of public street adjacent to Cadestral Survey No. 733 to its
South containing, by admeasurement 391 sq. yds i.e. 327 sq. metres or thereabout
and bounded as follows : that is to say, on or towards the South by C. S. No. 708,
on or towards the West by the Mayo Road, on or towards the East by the Mahatma
Gahdhi Road (formerly known as Esplanade Road) and on or towards the North
by C. S. No. 733. The Western, Southern and Eastern boundaries of the above
land are shown in blue colour and Northern boundary thereof is shown in red
colour on the plan below:

PLAN

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