#THE GOA, DAMAN AND DIU (ADMINISTRATION) ACT, 1962 
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##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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SECTIONS 
1.  Short title and commencement. 
2.  Definitions. 
3.  Representation in the House of the People. 
4.  Officers and functionaries in relation to Goa, Daman and Diu. 
5.  Continuance of existing laws and their adaptation. 
6.  Power to extend enactments to Goa, Daman and Diu. 
7.  [Repealed.] 
8.  Power to construe laws. 
9.  Validation of certain action and indemnity of officers for certain acts. 
10.  Power to remove difficulties. 
11.  Repeal and saving. 



#THE GOA, DAMAN AND DIU (ADMINISTRATION) ACT, 1962 

##ACT NO. 1 OF 1962 

[27th March, 1962.] 

An Act to provide for the administration of the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu and for 
  matters connected therewith. 

  BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:— 

1. **Short title and commencement.**—(1) This Act may be called the Goa, Daman and Diu 
(Administration) Act, 1962. 

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 5th day of March, 1962. 

2. **Definitions.**—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— 

  (a) “Administrator” means the Administrator of Goa, Daman and Diu appointed by the President 
under Article 239 of the Constitution; 

  (b) “appointed day” means the twentieth day of December, 1961; 

  (c) “Goa, Daman and Diu” means the Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu. 

3. **Representation in the House of the People.**—(1) There shall be allotted two seats to the Union 
territory of Goa, Daman and Diu in the House of the People. 

(2) In the Representation of the People Act, 1950 (43 of 1950),— 

  (a) in section 4, in sub-section (1), after the words “to Dadra and Nagar Haveli”, the words “to 
Goa, Daman and Diu” shall be inserted; 

  (b) in the First Schedule,— 

     (i) after entry 22, the following entry shall be inserted, namely:— 

       “23. Goa, Daman and Diu ..... 2”; 

     (ii) entries 23 and 24 shall be re-numbered as entries 24 and 25, respectively. 

(3) In  the  Representation  of  the  People  Act,  1951  (43  of  1951),  in  section  4,  after  the  words  “to 
Dadra and Nagar Haveli”, the words “to Goa, Daman and Diu” shall be inserted. 

4. **Officers and functionaries in relation to Goa, Daman and Diu.**—Without  prejudice  to  the 
powers of the Central Government to appoint from time to time such officers and authorities as may be 
necessary for the administration of Goa, Daman and Diu, all judges, magistrates and other officers and 
authorities who, immediately before the commencement of this Act, were exercising lawful functions in 
connection  with the  administration  of  Goa,  Daman  and  Diu  or  any  part  thereof,  shall, unless  otherwise 
directed at any time by the Central Government in relation to any such judge, magistrate or other officer 
or  authority,  or  until  other  provision  is  made  by  law,  continue  to  exercise  in  connection  with  such 
administration  their  respective  functions  in  the  same  manner  and  to  the  same  extent  as  before  such 
commencement with such altered designation, if any, as that Government may determine. 

5. **Continuance of existing laws and their adaptation.**—(1) All laws in force immediately before 
the appointed day in Goa, Daman and Diu or any part thereof shall continue to be in force therein until 
amended or repealed by a competent Legislature or other competent authority. 

(2) For the purpose of facilitating the application of any such law in relation to the administration of 
Goa, Daman and Diu as a Union territory and for the purpose of bringing the provisions of any such law 
into accord with the provisions of the Constitution, the Central Government may, within two years from 
the  appointed  day,  by  order,  make  such  adaptations  and  modifications,  whether  by  way  of  repeal 
oramendment, as may be necessary or expedient and thereupon, every such law shall have effect subject 
to the adaptations and modifications so made. 

6. **Power to extend enactments to Goa, Daman and Diu.**—The  Central  Government  may,  by 
notification in the Official Gazette, extend with such restrictions or modifications as it thinks fit to Goa, 
Daman and Diu any enactment which is in force in a State at the date of the notification. 

7. **[Extension  of  the  jurisdiction  of  Bombay  High  Court  to  Goa,  Daman  and  Diu.]** *Rep. by the 
Goa, Daman and Diu Judicial Commissioner's Court (Declaration asHigh Court) Act,* 1964 (16 of 1964), 
*section 8 (w.e.f.* 16-12-1964). 

8. **Power to construe laws.**—For the purpose of facilitating the application of any law in relation to 
Goa, Daman and Diu, any Court or other authority may construe any such law in such manner not 
affecting the substance, as may be necessary or proper to adapt it to the matter before the Court or other 
authority. 

9. **Validation of certain action and indemnity of officers for certain acts.**—(1) All things done and 
all action taken (including any acts of executive authority, proceedings, decrees and sentences) in or with 
respect to Goa, Daman and Diu on or after the appointed day and before the commencement of this Act, 
by the Administrator or any other officer, whether civil or military, or by any other person acting under 
the  orders  of  the  Administrator  or  such  officer,  which  have  been  done  or  taken  in  good  faith  in  a 
reasonable belief that they were necessary for the peace and good government of Goa, Daman and Diu 
shall be as valid and operative as if they had been done or taken in accordance with law. 

(2) No suit or other legal proceeding whatsoever, whether civil or criminal, shall lie in any Court of 
law  against  the  Administrator  or  any  other  officer  of Government;  whether  civil  or  military,  or  against 
any other person acting under the orders of the Administrator or such other officer, for, or on account of, 
or in respect of, anything done or any action taken in Goa, Daman and Diu or any part thereof on or after 
the appointed day and before the commencement of this Act which has been done or taken in good faith 
and in a reasonable belief that it was necessary for the peace and good government of Goa, Daman and 
Diu: 

  Provided that if any such suit on other legal proceeding has been instituted before the commencement 
of this Act, it shall, on such commencement, abate. 

10. **Power to remove difficulties.**—(1) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of 
this Act or in connection with the administration of Goa, Daman and Diu, the Central Government may, 
by  order,  make  such  further  provision  as  appears  to  it  to  be  necessary  or  expedient  for  removing  the 
difficulty. 

(2) Any order under sub-section (1) may be made so as to be retrospective to any date not earlier than 
the appointed day. 

11. **Repeal and saving.**—(1) The Goa, Daman and Diu (Administration) Ordinance, 1962 (2 of 
1962), is hereby repealed. 

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