Jammu and Kashmir Housing Board Act, 1976

No: 7 Dated: Mar, 31 1976

THE JAMMU AND KASHMIR HOUSING BOARD ACT, 1976

(Act No. VII of 1976)

    An Act to provide for measures to be taken to deal with and satisfy the need for housing accommodation.

    Whereas it is expedient to take such measures, to make such schemes and to carry out such works as are necessary for the purposes of dealing with and satisfying the need for housing accommodation, residential and office accommodation in the Public Sector and with that objective in view it is necessary to establish a Board and to make certain other provisions hereinafter appearing;

Be it enacted by the Jammu and Kashmir State Legislature in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows

CHAPTER I

Preliminary

1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Jammu and Kashmir Housing Board Act, 1976.

(2) It extends to whole of the State of Jammu and Kashmir.

(3) It shall come into force on such dates as the Government may, by notification in the Government Gazette, appoint.

2. Interpretation - In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or the context,-

(1) "Board" means the Jammu and Kashmir Housing Board constituted under section 4 :

(2) "Betterment charges" means the charges leviable under section 27 ;

(3) "Board premises" means any premises belonging to or vesting in Board or taken on lease by the Board or entrusted to the Board under this Act for management or use for the purposes of this Act;

(4) "Chairman" means Chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Housing Board ;

(5) "Financial institution" means any Scheduled Bank, Nationalised Bank, Life Insurance Corporation of India, Housing and Urban Development Corporation of India, or any other financial Institution which lends money for housing activity;

(6) "Government" means the Government of Jammu and Kashmir:

(7) "Government office" means any office of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir;

(8) "Housing Scheme" means a housing scheme made under this Act;

(9) "Land" includes benefits to arise out of land and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth ;

(10) "Managing Director" means Managing Director appointed under this Act ;

(11) "member" means a member of the Board and includes the Chairman of the Board ;

(12) "Municipality" means a Municipality and includes a Town Area Committee or a Notified Area Committee :

(13) "premises" means any land or building or part of a building including any apartment therein and includes-

(i) gardens, grounds and out-houses, if any, appertaining to such building or part of a building; and

(ii) any fittings affixed to such building or part of a building for the more beneficial enjoyment thereof;

(14) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(15) "regulations" means regulations made by the Board under this Act.