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CHAPTER IV RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF LANDLORD AND TENANT

Section 19: Duties of property manager and consequences of violation of duties

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) The duties of the property manager shall include the following, namely:—

(a) to collect rent against receipt;

(b) to do essential repairs on behalf of the landlord;

(c) to inspect the premises from time to time;

(d) to give notices to tenant for

(i) proper maintenance of the premises;

(ii) delay in payment of rent;

(iii) revision of rent;

(iv) vacation of premises;

(v) renewal of tenancy;

(e) help in resolution of disputes among tenants and between landlord and tenant;

(f) any other matters relating to tenancy to be acted upon only on the instructions of the landlord.

(2) Where the property manager acts, in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1) or against the instructions of the landlord, the Rent Authority may, on an application made to it by the landlord or tenant in that behalf, remove the property manager or impose such costs on the property manager so as to compensate any loss incurred by the landlord or tenant due to such contravention.

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