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Now All Indians Can Buy Land In J&K As Home Ministry In A Historic Move Notifies New Land Laws
Tourists enjoy shikara ride on the waters of Dal Lake in Srinagar. (representative image) (Waseem Andrabi/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
In a significant move, the Centre has notified the new Land Laws for Jammu & Kashmir. In a gazette notification, the Union Home Ministry has notified this on Monday (26 October). It paved way for any Indian to buy land in the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu & Kashmir.
The MHA notified what it calls UT of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Third Order, 2020. The order comes into force with immediate effect.
“With immediate effect, the Acts mentioned in the Schedule to this Order shall, until repealed or amended by a competent Legislature or other competent authority, have effect, subject to the adaptations and modifications directed by the said Schedule, or if it is so directed, shall stand repealed,” read the order.
The General Clauses Act, 1897 applies for the interpretation of this current Order since it applies for interpretation of laws in force in India, said the order. Meanwhile 12 state laws have been repealed as a whole.
Meanwhile, those legislations which are being repealed as whole include the Jammu and Kashmir Alienation Of Land Act (V of Samvat 1995), the Jammu and Kashmir Big Landed Estates Abolition Act (XVII Samvat 2007), The Jammu and Kashmir Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1956, the Jammu and Kashmir Consolidation Of Holdings Act, 1962, among others.
(This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.)
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