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CHAPTER IV RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF LANDLORD AND TENANT

Section 17: Entry into premises

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 landlord or the property manager may enter the premises let out on rent after serving a notice, in writing or through electronic mode, to the tenant at least twenty four hours before the time of entry under the following circumstances, namely :—

(a) to carry out repairs or replacement or to do or to get work done in the premises; or

(b) to carry out an inspection of the premises for the purpose of determining whether the premises are in a habitable state; or

(c) for any other reasonable cause for entry specified in the tenancy agreement.

(2) The notice referred to in sub-section (1) shall specify the day, time and reason for entry:

Provided that no person shall enter the premises before sun rise and after sun set:

Provided further that nothing contained in this section shall prevent the landlord from entering into the premises let out on rent without prior notice to the tenant in case of emergent situations like war, flood, fire, cyclone, earthquake or any other natural calamity, which may affect that premises.

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