THE JAMMU AND KASHMIR REORGANISATION (AMENDMENT)

ACT, 2023

NO. 35 OF 2023

[15th December, 2023]

An Act further to amend the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019.

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 Reorganisation (Amendment)

Act, 2023.

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

in the Official Gazette, appoint.

Short title, and

commencement.

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 Reorganisation Act, 2019 (hereinafter referred to as the

principal Act), in section 14,—

(i) in sub-section (3), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:—

'Provided that subject to the provisions of sub-section (1) of section 60,

on and from the date of commencement of the Jammu and Kashmir

Reorganisation (Amendment) Act, 2023, the provisions of this sub-section shall

have effect as if for the figures "107", the figures "114" had been substituted.';

(ii) for sub-section (10), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:—

'(10) In the Second Schedule to the Representation of the People

Act, 1950, under the sub-heading "II. UNION TERRITORIES", against serial

number 3 relating to "Jammu and Kashmir", for the entries under columns 2 to 7,

the following entries shall respectively be substituted, namely:—

"3. Jammu and Kashmir

9".'.

3. After section 15 of the principal Act, the following sections shall be inserted,

namely:—

'15A. Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3) of section 14, the

Lieutenant Governor of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir may nominate not

more than two members, one of whom shall be a woman, from the community of

Kashmiri Migrants, to the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, the term "Migrant" shall have

the same meaning as assigned to it in clause (e) of section 2 of the Jammu and Kashmir

Migrant Immovable Property (Preservation, Protection and Restraint on Distress Sales)

Act, 1997.

15B. Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3) of section 14, the

Lieutenant Governor of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir may nominate one

member from displaced persons from Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir to the

Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, the term "displaced person"

means any person, who, on account of the setting up of the dominions of India and

Pakistan, or on account of civil disturbances or fear of such disturbances in any area

of the then State of Jammu and Kashmir presently under occupation of Pakistan,

during the years 1947-48, 1965 and 1971, had left or had been displaced due to such

disturbances from his place of residence in such area and who has been subsequently

residing outside such area and also includes successors-in-interest of any such person.'.

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S.K.G. RAHATE,

Secretary to the Govt. of India.

Amendment

of section 14.

34 of 2019.

Insertion of

new sections

15A and 15B.

Nomination

of Kashmiri

Migrants.

Nomination

of displaced

persons.

Jammu and

Kashmir Act

XVI of 1997.

43 of 1950.

THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY

[PART II—SEC. 1]

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Mohan

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