THE JAMMU AND KASHMIR RESERVATION (AMENDMENT)

ACT, 2023

NO. 34 OF 2023

[15th December, 2023.]

An Act further to amend the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India as

follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment)

Act, 2023.

(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification

in the Official Gazette, appoint.

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MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE

(Legislative Department)

New Delhi, the 15th December, 2023/Agrahayana 24, 1945 (Saka)

The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the

15th December, 2023 and is hereby published for general information:—

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2. In the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004, in section 2,—

(i) in clause (o),—

(A) for sub-clause (iii), the following sub-clause shall be substituted,

namely:—

“(iii) other backward classes declared as such by the Government

from time to time:";

(B) in the first proviso, for the words "said category", the words "category

of socially and educationally backward classes" shall be substituted;

(ii) clause (q) shall be omitted.

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S.K.G. RAHATE,

Secretary to the Govt. of India.

Amendment

of section 2.

Jammu and

Kashmir Act

XIV of 2004.

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THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY

[PART II—SEC. 1]

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Mohan

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