**Executive Summary**
This document is the official publication of the Maharashtra Highways (Amendment) Act, 2025 (Mah. Act No. XXVIII of 2025), which amends the Maharashtra Highways Act. The Act was first published on April 28, 2025. It addresses the extension of periods and saving clauses related to notifications issued under the original Highways Act. The Amendment is deemed to have taken effect on March 1, 2025.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Act Title:** The Act is called the Maharashtra Highways (Amendment) Act, 2025.
* **Amendment to Section 18:**
* In Section 18 of the Maharashtra Highways Act, a provision is added after the existing proviso that allows the State Government to extend the period mentioned by up to one year if circumstances justify it.
* Any decision to extend the period must be recorded in writing and notified in the Official Gazette.
* The Land Acquisition Officer must publish the notification in two local newspapers, one in a vernacular language.
* **Saving Clause:**
* Notifications issued by the State Government under Section 15(2) of the principal Act between March 1, 2024, and March 31, 2024, that ceased to be operative due to the lapse of one year are deemed to be operative and in effect.
* These notifications are effective from the date they ceased to be operative and for a further period of one year from the date of commencement of the Maharashtra Highways (Amendment) Act, 2025.
* Any action taken under these notifications is deemed valid and legal and cannot be challenged in court or by authority.
**Impact Analysis**
**State Government**
* **Impact:** The State Government is granted the authority to extend notification periods by up to one year under certain circumstances.
* **Action Required:** Record decisions to extend periods in writing, notify the decision in the Official Gazette, and ensure the Land Acquisition Officer publishes the notification in local newspapers.
**Land Acquisition Officer**
* **Impact:** Responsibility for ensuring the substance of extended notification periods is published in local newspapers.
* **Action Required:** Publish notifications of extended periods in two local newspapers, one in a vernacular language.
**Citizens / Public**
* **Impact:** Notifications previously lapsed due to a time period are now being extended and given legal validity. The local publication of these notices will affect them.
* **Action Required:** Should review the notified information as needed.
Key Entities Referenced
Maharashtra Highways Act: The principal Act being amended.
Maharashtra Highways (Amendment) Act, 2025: Act amending the Maharashtra Highways Act.
Section 18 of the Maharashtra Highways Act: Section of the principal act that is being amended.
Constitution of India: Referenced for translation of the Act.
महाारााष्ट्र शाासन रााजपत्र असाधााराण भााग आठ, एप्रि�ल २८, २०२५/वैैशााख ८, शाकेे १९४७ 1
RNI No. MAHENG /2009/35528
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महाारााष्ट्र प्रिवैधाानमंडळााचेे अप्रिधाप्रिनयेम वै रााज्येपालांनी �ाख्येाप्रिपत केेलेले अध्येादेेशा वै केेलेले प्रिवैप्रिनयेम आप्रिण
प्रिवैधाी वै न्येाये प्रिवैभाागाकेडून आलेली प्रिवैधाेयेकेे (इंंग्रजी अनुवैादे).
In pursuance of clause )3( of article 348 of the Constitution of India, the following translation
in English of the Maharashtra Highways )Amendment( Act, 2025 )Mah. Act No. XXVIII of 2025(, is
hereby published under the authority of the Governor.
By order and in the name of the Governor of Maharashtra,
SATISH WAGHOLE,
Secretary )Legislation( to Government,
Law and Judiciary Department.
MAHARASHTRA ACT No. XXVIII OF 2025.
(First published, after having received the assent of the Governor in the
“Maharashtra Government Gazette”, on the 28th April 2025.)
An Act further to amend the Maharashtra Highways Act.
LV of WHEREAS it is expedient further to amend the Maharashtra Highways
1955. Act for the purposes hereinafter appearing; it is hereby enacted in the Seventy-
sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows :—
1. This Act may be called the Maharashtra Highways )Amendment( Act, Short title.
2025.
LV of 2. In section 18 of the Maharashtra Highways Act )hereinafter referred to Amendment of
1955. “the principal Act”(, in sub-section )3(, after the proviso, the following provisos section 18 of LV
of 1955.
shall be added and shall be deemed to have been added with effect from the
1st March 2025, namely :—
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भााग आठ-४१–१2 महाारााष्ट्र शाासन रााजपत्र असाधााराण भााग आठ, एप्रि�ल २८, २०२५/वैैशााख ८, शाकेे १९४७
“Provided further that, the State Government may extend the said
period upto one year, if it is of the opinion that the circumstances exist
justifying the same :
Provided also that, any such decision to extend the period shall be
recorded in writing and the same shall be notified in the Official Gazette and
the Land Acquisition Officer shall cause the substance of the notification to
be published in two local newspapers, one of which will be in a vernacular
language.”.
Saving. 3. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 18 of the principal
Act,—
)1( the notifications issued by the State Government under sub-section )2(
of section 15 of the principal Act during the period commencing from the
1st March 2024 and ending on the 31st March 2024, which have ceased
to be operative due to lapse of period of one year as per the provisions of
sub-section )3( of section 18, shall be deemed to be continued to be operative
and in effect,—
)i( from the dates on which they have ceased to be operative ; and
)ii( for a further period of one year from the date of commencement Mah.
of the Maharashtra Highways )Amendment( Act, 2025 ; and XXVIII
of 2025.
)2( anything done or any action taken under such notifications, shall be
deemed to have been validly and legally done or taken, as per the provisions
of the principal Act, and shall not be called in question before any Court
or authority on the ground that such notifications are not operative and
in effect.
ON BEHALF OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, STATIONERY AND PUBLICATION, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY DIRECTOR,
RUPENDRA DINESH MORE, PRINTED AT GOVERNMENT CENTRAL PRESS, 21-A, NETAJI SUBHASH ROAD, CHARNI ROAD,
MUMBAI 400 004 AND PUBLISHED AT DIRECTORATE OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, STATIONERY AND PUBLICATIONS,
21-A, NETAJI SUBHASH ROAD, CHARNI ROAD, MUMBAI 400 004. EDITOR : DIRECTOR, RUPENDRA DINESH MORE.