THE JAMMU AND KASHMIR REORGANISATION

(SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT, 2023

NO. 38 OF 2023

[20th 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

(Second Amendment) Act, 2023.

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

in the Official Gazette, appoint.

2. In the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, after section 14, the following

sections shall be inserted, namely:—

“14A. (1) Seats shall be reserved for women in the Legislative Assembly of the

Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

(2) As nearly as may be, one-third of the seats reserved under sub-section (7)

of section 14 shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes or the

Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative Assembly of the Union territory of Jammu and

Kashmir.

Short title and

commencement.

Insertion of

new sections

14A and 14B.

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Reservation of

seats for

women in

Legislative

Assembly of

Union

territory of

Jammu and

Kashmir.

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MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE

(Legislative Department)

New Delhi, the 22nd December, 2023/Pausha 1, 1945 (Saka)

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

20th December, 2023 and is hereby published for general information:—

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(3) As nearly as may be, one-third of the total number of seats to be filled by

direct election to the Legislative Assembly of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir

(including the number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes

and the Scheduled Tribes) shall be reserved for women in such manner as Parliament

may by law determine.

14B. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the provisions of this Act, the

provisions relating to reservation of seats for women in the Legislative Assembly of

the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir shall come into effect after an exercise of

delimitation is undertaken for this purpose after the relevant figures for the first

census taken after the commencement of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation

(Second Amendment) Act, 2023 have been published and shall cease to have effect

on the expiration of a period of fifteen years from such commencement.

(2) Subject to the provisions of section 14A, seats reserved for women in the

Legislative Assembly of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir shall continue till

such date as Parliament may by law determine.

(3) Rotation of seats reserved for women in the Legislative Assembly of the

Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir shall take effect after such subsequent exercise

of delimitation as Parliament may by law determine.

(4) Nothing in section 14A shall affect any representation in the Legislative

Assembly of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir until the dissolution of the

then existing Legislative Assembly of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.”.

—————

S.K.G. RAHATE,

Secretary to the Govt. of India.

Reservation

of seats for

women to

take effect.

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