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CHAPTER I Preliminary

Section 3: Exemptions

The Jammu and Kashmir (Residential and Commercial Tenancy) Act, 2012 (repealed)

Repealed in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir from 15 February 2026 by section 47(1) of the Jammu and Kashmir Tenancy Act, 2025 (Act No. IV of 2025), which reads "The Jammu and Kashmir Residential and Commercial Tenancy) Act, 2012 which is in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, is hereby repealed", with pending cases saved by section 47(2).

How current this text is

Text as adapted by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Adaptation of State Laws) Order, 2020 (S.O. 1229(E), 31 March 2020), as published by India Code for the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

Kept for reference only: the Act was repealed from 15 February 2026 by the Jammu and Kashmir Tenancy Act, 2025, and applies now only to cases pending at that date under section 47(2) of that Act.

Nothing in this Act shall apply to,––

(a) any rental unit owned by the Central or 1[Government] or local authority or a Government undertaking or a statutory body wholly owned and controlled by the Government or cantonment board ;

(b) public institutions ;

(c) any rental unit let out before the commencement of the Act where rent paid on the date of commencement of the Act exceeds six thousand per annum and where such units had been exempted under the Jammu and Kashmir Houses and Shops Rent Control Act, 1966 ;

(d) rental unit(s) owned by a company, university or organization given on rent to its employees as part of service contract ;

(e) any rental unit owned by religious or charitable institutions as may be specified by the Government ; and

(f) any rental unit owned by Wakfs registered under 2[the Wakf Act, 1995 (43 of 1995)] or to any trust registered under 3[the Indian Trust Act, 1882 (2 of 1882)].

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Substituted for “State Government” by S.O. 1229(E) dated 31.03.2020.
  2. 2.Substituted ibid for “the Jammu and Kashmir Wakfs Act, 2001”.
  3. 3.Substituted ibid for “the Trust Act, Samvat 1977”.