Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Prohibition of erection or re-erection of buildings, without permission.— (1) No person shall— (i) erect or re-erect any building; or (ii) commence to erect or re-erect any building; or (iii) make any material external alteration to any building; or (iv) construct or reconstruct any projecting portion of a building which the Commissioner is empowered by section 267 to require to be set back or is empowered to give permission to construct or reconstruct,— (a) unless the Commissioner has either by an order in writing granted permission or has failed to intimate within the prescribed period his refusal of permission for the erection or re-erection or the building or for the construction or re-construction of the projecting part of the building, or (b) after the expiry of one year from the date of the said permission or such longer period as the Commissioner may allow or from the end of the prescribed period as the case may be: Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any work, addition or alteration which the Corporation may by bye-law declare to be exempt. (c) 30[Provided further that a building which is reflected in the record of rights and the first promulgated survey plan prepared under the provisions of the Goa Land Revenue Code, 1968 (9 of 1969) shall be deemed to have been erected with due permission of the Commissioner] (2) If a question arises whether a particular alteration in or addition to an existing building is or is not a material alteration, the decision of the District Court, North Goa at Panaji, shall be final and conclusive. (3) No appeal shall be admitted under this section unless the matter has been determined by the Commissioner..