1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Jammu and Kashmir (Extension
of Laws) Act, 1956.
(2) It shall come into force on such date1
as the Central Government may, by notification in the
Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Extension and amendment of certain laws.—(1) The Acts and Ordinance mentioned in the
Schedule and all rules, orders and regulations made there under are hereby extended to, and shall be in
force, in the State of Jammu and Kashmir*.
(2) With effect from the commencement of this Acts the Act and Ordinance mentioned in the
Schedule shall be amended as specified therein.
3. Construction of references to laws not in force in Jammu and Kashmir.—Any reference in any
Act or in the Ordinance mentioned in the Schedule to a law which is not in force in the State of Jammu
and Kashmir* shall, in relation to that State, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any,
in force in that State.
4. Construction of references to authorities where new authorities have been constituted.—Any
reference by whatever form of words in any law for the time being in force in the State of Jammu and
Kashmir* to any authority competent at the date of the passing of that law to exercise any powers or
discharge any functions in that State shall, where a corresponding new authority has been constituted by
or under any law now extended to that State, have effect as if it were a reference to the new authority.
5. Repeals and savings.—If immediately before the commencement of this Act there is in force in
the State of Jammu and Kashmir* any law corresponding to any Act or Ordinance now extended to that
State, that law shall, save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, stand repealed on such
commencement:
Provided that the repeal shall not affect—
(a) the previous operation of any law so repealed or anything duly done or suffered hereunder,
(b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under any law so
repealed,
(c) any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against
any law so repealed, or
(d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege
obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid;
and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced, and any
such penalty, forfeiture or punishment may be imposed, as if this Act had not been passed:
Provided further that, subject to the preceding proviso, anything done or any action taken (including
any appointment or delegation made, notification, instruction or direction issued, form, bye-law or
scheme framed, certificate obtained, permit or licence granted or registration effected) under any such law
shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of the Act or Ordinance
now extended to that State, and shall continue to be in force accordingly unless and until superseded by
anything done or any action taken under the said Act or Ordinance.
1. 1st November, 1956, vide notification No. S. R. O. 2327, dated 10th October, 1956, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary,
Part II, sec. 3.
*. Vide notification No. S.O. 3912(E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and
Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.
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6. Power to remove difficulties.—(1) If any difficulty arises in giving effect to the provisions of any
Act or Ordinance now extended to the State of Jammu and Kashmir*, the Central Government may, by
order notified in the Official Gazette, make such provisions or give such directions as appear to it
necessary for the removal of the difficulty.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, any such notified
order may,—
(a) specify the corresponding authorities within the meaning of section 4,
(b) provide for the transfer of any matter pending immediately before the commencement of this
Act before any court, tribunal or other authority, to any corresponding court, tribunal or authority for
disposal,
(c) specify the areas or circumstances in which, or the extent to which, or the conditions subject
to which, anything done or any action taken (including any of the matters specified in the second
proviso to section 5) under any law repealed by that section shall be recognised or given effect to
under the corresponding provision of the Act or Ordinance now extended.