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Section 3: Exceptions.

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

The provision of this Act, except those specified in column 2 of the sub-joined table, shall not apply to the categories of land specified in column I thereof :––

Column 1. Column 2.

(a) Evacuees’ land ;

Clause (c) of sub-section (2) of

section 4 and sections 5, 7, 13

and 14 and sub-section (3) of

section 26.

Provided that nothing herein shall––

(i) confer any ownership rights upon

a displaced or other person in

any Evacuees’ land ; or

(ii) affect or interfere with the rights

of possession or legal obligation of a

displaced or other person conferred

or imposed by or under any law,

rule or order, for the time being

in force in respect of such land.

(b) Land owned, held or acquired

by the Government of Jammu and

Kashmir or the Government of India,

other than,––

Sections 26, [X X X]

38 and 39

(i) land vested or deemed to have

been vested in the [Union territory of

Jammu and Kashmir] by or under

this Act ; and

(ii) land described in Schedule II

(c) Land owned by any industrial

or commercial undertaking or set apart or

acquired by the Government for use

for industrial or commercial or

residential purposes :

Provided that exemption under this

clause shall cease to apply,

if after such enquiry as may be

prescribed, the Government is of the

opinion that such industrial or commercial

undertaking has failed to utilise the

land for that purpose within such

time as may be prescribed.

[XXX]

(d) Land owned, held or acquired by

such educational and other public

institutions as may be notified by

the Government.

Nil

(e) Land owned, held or acquired

by the Universities of the

[Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir]

established by law and Municipalities,

Town Area Committees, Notified Area

Committees, Cantonment Boards and other

local bodies and Panchayats of the

[Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir].

Nil

(f) Land [x x x x], which is unculturable

or in the form of arak, kap or

kah-i-krisham or which grows fuel

or fodder and belongs to such class

as is notified by the Government,

not exceeding four standard acres per

family.

Sections 13 [XXX]

Explanation.––For purposes of clause (f)

the area should be unculturable

or used for growing fuel or fodder

and also recorded as such in the

revenue records.

(g) Omitted.

(h) Land––

(i) requisitioned under any law for the

time being in force ; or

[XXX]

(ii) situate in depopulated villages of

Poonch and Rajouri Districts and

notified as such by the

Government ; or

[XXX]

(iii) lying in such border areas as are

declared by the Government to

be insecure for cultivation :

[XXX]

Provided that such provisions of this

Act, as are notified by the Government,

shall apply to such lands as and

when such lands are de-requisitioned or

permitted to be reoccupied or become

secure for cultivation, as the case

may be,––

(i) Private springs, wells and village

roads.

Nil

(j) Residential buildings or structures

along with sites thereunder and land

appurtenant thereto :

[XXX]

Provided that the area under and

appurtenant to such residential building

or structure does not, along with land

exempted by clause (1) and the area

under and appurtenant to a

building in municipal area,

notified area, town area or village

abadi, exceed four kanals per family :

Provided further that such exemption

may be utilised by a person for his

personal use or for use by a co-operative

society, of which such person is a

member, or for both, subject to

the condition that the aggregate area

so utilised does not exceed the

maximum of four kanals per family.

(k) Such land as is reserved by the

Government for grazing ground or

for any public purpose.

Section 38.

(l) Land reserved or acquired for

residential purposes subject to the

provisos to clause (j).

[XXX]

(m) Cemeteries and Burning or burial

grounds and land under

places of worship or appurtenant

thereto according to the revenue

records of Kharif, 1971.

Nil

(n) Land vested in the [Union

territory of Jammu and Kashmir]

under the provisions of the Jammu

and Kashmir Big Landed Estates

Abolition Act, Samvat 2007 and

retained under sub-section (2) of

section 6 of the said Act ,––

(i) under personal cultivation ;

Section 15 and clause (a)

of section 16.

(ii) through a tiller.

Sub-section (1) of

section 4, sections

5 and 6, and sub-section

(2) of section 8,

sub-sections (1) and

(8) of section 9, section

15 and clause (b)

of section 16.

(o) Land held by a co-operative

farming society :

Section 13 [X X X]

Provided that no share-holder

of the society shall, along

with the other members of

the family, if any, to which

he belongs hold land,

including his share of land

in such society, in excess of

the ceiling area.

Where this provision sits

ActThe Jammu and Kashmir Agrarian Reforms Act, 1976
Section3
Marginal noteExceptions.
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.

  • omitted, Act No. XXXVIII of 1997. . Figure 31 omitted by Act No. XXXVIII of 1997, s. 2.
  • substituted. . Substituted for “State” by S.O. 3808 (E) of 2020 dated 26.10.2020.
  • omitted, Act No. XXXVIII of 1997. . Omitted by Act No. XXXVIII of 1997, s. 2.
  • other. . Words “outside the District of Ladakh” by S.O. 3808 (E) of 2020 dated 26.10.2020.
  • omitted. . Clause (g) omitted ibid.

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