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Under Section 11 of the General Clauses Act, in the measurement of any distance for the purposes of a Central Act, the distance shall be measured:
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C.
1. Section 11 provides: 'In the measurement of any distance, for the purpose of any Central Act or Regulation made after the commencement of this Act, that distance shall, **unless a different intention appears, be measured in a straight line on a horizontal plane**.'
2. So the rule is **'as the crow flies' on a level horizontal plane** — not by road, not by waterway, not including the height of intervening obstacles.
3. The default ensures uniformity in measuring radius-based limits in licensing, prohibition and zoning laws.
4. A contrary intention may appear in the parent Act, in which case the GCA default yields.
_Source: ICSI CS Executive — Lesson 4, 'Measurement of distances (Section 11)', p. 110._
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