The Goa, Daman and Diu (Administration) Act, 1962

 

 
  

 

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The Goa, Daman and Diu (Administration)  
Act, 1962 

(Central Act 1 of 1962) 
 

 
The Goa, Daman and Diu (Administration) Act, 1962 

 

The Goa, Daman and Diu (Administration) Act, 1962, Act No. 1 of 1962.  

[27
th
 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 deemed to have come into force on the 5
th
 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 (443 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 function arise 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 



 

 

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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 of 

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 or amendment, 

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 Commissioners court (Declaration as 

High court) Act, 1964 (16 of 1964), S. 8 (w.e.f., 16-12-1963). 

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 and 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 



 

 

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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 or other legal proceeding has been instituted before the 

commencement of this Act, if 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), 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.