Act Number: 48

Act Name: The National Highways Act, 1956

Year: 1956

Enactment Date: 1956-09-11

Long Title: An Act to provide for the declaration of certain highways to be national highways and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways

Department:

Section 2: Declaration of certain highways to be national highways.
    (1) Each of the highways specified in the Schedule 1*** is hereby declared to be a national highway.
     (2) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare any other highway to be a national highway and on the publication of such notification such highway shall be deemed to be specified in the Schedule.
     (3) The Central Government may, by like notification, omit any highway from the Schedule and on the publication of such notification, the highway so omitted shall cease to be a national highway.
Notes:
1. The words "except such parts thereof as are situated within any municipal area" omitted by Act 16 of 1997, s. 2 (w.e.f. 24- 1-1997).
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