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CHAPTER IV RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF LANDLORD AND TENANT

Section 13: Rent and other charges payable and receipt for payment thereof

The Jammu and Kashmir Tenancy Act, 2025

How current this text is

Text as enacted, published in the Jammu and Kashmir Official Gazette (Extraordinary) of 1 November 2025 and made available by India Code; no amending Act has been found.

The Act came into force on 15 February 2026, the date appointed under section 1(3) by S.O. 31 of 9 February 2026 of the Housing and Urban Development Department.

(1) Every tenant shall pay rent and other charges payable within such period as agreed to in the tenancy agreement.

(2) Every landlord or his property manager shall, on receipt of payment towards rent and other charges payable within the stipulated period as mentioned in the tenancy agreement from the tenant, shall provide forthwith against acknowledgement, a duly signed receipt for the amount received by him:

Provided that where the payment of rent or other charges is made by the tenant to the landlord through the electronic mode, the bank acknowledgment thereof shall be conclusive proof of such payment.