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THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY
[Part II—



TABLE-2
STATE LAWS WHICH SHALL BE APPLICABLE TO THE UNION TERRITORY OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR AND UNION TERRITORY OF LADAKH WITH AMENDMENTS

S. No. Year No. Short title Amendments
1 2 3 4 5
1. Svt 1977 (1920 AD) XLII The Transfer of Property Act Section 139 and section 140 shall be omitted.
2. Svt 1995 (1938 AD) V The Jammu and Kashmir Alienation of Land Act Section 4 and section 4-A shall be omitted;
3. Svt 2007 (1950 AD) XVII The Jammu and Kashmir Big Landed Estates Abolition Act Section 20-A shall be omitted.
4. 1960 XXXVIII The Jammu and Kashmir Land Grants Act A. Provisos to sub-section 1 of section 4 shall be omitted; and
B. Clause (i) of sub-section 2 of section 4 shall be omitted.
5. 1976 XVII The Jammu and Kashmir Agrarian Reforms Act Section 17 shall be omitted.
6. 1989 X The Jammu and Kashmir Cooperative Societies Act Sub-Clause (ii) of clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 17 shall be omitted.
7. 2004 XIV The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act A. In section 2 after clause (g), the following clause shall be inserted namely:—

"(ga) "economically weaker sections" means such categories as may be notified by the Government from time to time, on the basis of family income and other indicators of economic disadvantage, other than the classes or categories defined in clauses (m), (n) and (o)";

B. In section 3, in sub-section (1),—

(i) in clause (a), the word "and" occurring at the end shall be omitted;

(ii) in clause (b), for the words "backward classes:", the words "backward classes; and" shall be substituted;
(iii) after clause (b), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:—
"(c) economically weaker sections:";
(iv) in the first proviso, for the words "the total percentage of reservation", the words, brackets and letters "the total percentage of reservation provided in clauses (a) and (b)" shall be substituted;
(v) in the second proviso, for the words "Provided

further that", the following shall be substituted, namely:—