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Section 14: Optimum retainable area of land.

The Jammu and Kashmir Agrarian Reforms Act, 1976Union territory Act of Jammu and Kashmir · Act 17 of 1976

[(1) Save as provided in clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 4 of this Act, aggregate land held in ownership or as tenant or otherwise by, or vested under this Act in, an individual or all members of a family shall not exceed the ceiling area.]

(2) Where, after the first day of September, 1971, any land has been or is acquired by any such place of worship or waqf or dharamshala or public trust or institution or individual or member as is mentioned in sub-section (1) by purchase gift, bequest, inheritance, mortgage, family settlement, degree or order of a court or by any other mode whatsoever and in consequence thereof, the total extent of land owned by such place of worship or waqf or dharamshala or public trust or institution or individual or family, exceed the limit provided for in sub-section (1), the retention or possession of such land, as may be in excess shall, be invalid and all rights, title and interest in such excess land shall extinguish and vest in the [Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir].

Where this provision sits

ActThe Jammu and Kashmir Agrarian Reforms Act, 1976
Section14
Marginal noteOptimum retainable area of land.
JurisdictionUnion territory of Jammu and Kashmir
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted, Act No. V of 1978. . Sub-section (1) substituted by Act No. V of 1978, s. 6.
  • substituted. . Substituted for “State” by S.O. 3808 (E) of 2020 dated 26.10.2020.

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