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Goa Tourist Places (Protection and Maintenance) Act, 2001 (Act No. 56 of 2001).

Country/Territory
India
Territorial subdivision
Goa
Document type
Legislation
Date
2001
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Long title
An Act to protect and maintain the tourist places from deterioration and erosion and preserve their tourism potential.
Subject
Wild species & ecosystems
Keyword
Tourism Management/conservation Ecosystem preservation Offences/penalties
Geographical area
Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Indian Ocean, South Asian Seas, Southern Asia
Entry into force notes
This Act enters into force immediately.
Abstract

This Act, consisting of 15 sections and several notifications, aims to protect and maintain the tourist places from deterioration and erosion and preserve their tourism potential. The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any place, monument, site, location to be a tourist place for the purposes of this Act, including any river, riverbed, beach, water spring, lake, water course or land, etc. In particular, it establishes that no person, company, association, firm or any other body shall cause any nuisance or carry out any activity, process, operation, etc., including the operation of or plying vessels, boats, etc. or omit to prevent or remove the nuisance, which damages or deteriorates or is likely to damage or deteriorate or is capable of being damaged or deteriorated or has damaged or deteriorated the tourism potentiality of any tourist place, declared as such under section 3 of this Act.

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