section 73. Savings
Savings.
The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Highways Act, 1974Infrastructure197367 sections
Statutory text
- (1) Subject to the provisions of this section, nothing in this Act shall affect, —
- (a) the rights of any local authority to make any excavation for the purpose of laying, making, altering, repairing or renewing any sewer, drain, water course or other works; or
- (b) the rights of any authority appointed under any law for the time being in force for gas or water, electricity, railways, tramways, or trolly vehicles to erect any support or make any excavation for the purposes of laying, making, altering, repairing or renewing any main pipe, sluice, weir, electric line, duct, drain or other apparatus; or
- (c) any land belonging to a railway administration or belonging to or used by a person holding a licence or sanction for the generation, transformation or distribution of electricity under the Indian Electricity Act, 1910, (Central Act 9 of 1910) when such land is held or used by the railway administration or such person, as the case may be, for the purpose of the railway or for generation, transformation of distribution of electricity, except in so far as they may consent thereto; or
- (d) any land within the limit of a cantonment or a port declared by or under any law made by Parliament or existing law to be a major port;
- (e) any land within the jurisdiction of a local authority under the administrative control of the Central Government: Provided that-
- (i) any restrictions in force under section 9 as to construction, formation or laying out of means of access to, or from, any road, shall without any such consent as aforesaid, extend to any such land as it specified in clause (c) in so far as the restrictions relate to means of access over or under such land to, or from, land other than land so specified; and
- (ii) any consent required for the purposes of this section shall not be unreasonably withheld and the question whether or not the consent so required is unreasonably withheld shall be determined by the Government whose decision on the question shall be final.
- (2) Nothing is this Act shall affect any powers and duties of the telegraph authority under the provisions of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885. (Central Act 13 of 1885)
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