Jammu and Kashmir Registration of Contractors Act, 1956

No: 16 Dated: Oct, 25 1956

THE JAMMU AND KASHMIR REGISTRATION OF CONTRACTORS ACT, 1956

(Act No. XVI of 1956)

An Act to provide for registration of contractors in the Civil Departments of the Jammu and Kashmir State and other connected matters.

Be it enacted in the Seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows :–

1. Short title, extent and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Jammu and Kashmir Registration of Contractors Act, 1956.

(2) It shall extend to the whole of the State.

(3) It shall come into force from such date as the Government may, by notification in the Government Gazette, appoint in this behalf.

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

(1) "Department" means Civil Department of the Government as may be specified from time to time by the Government by a notification in the Government Gazette and includes the offices of Local Bodies and Panchayats;

(2) "Head of the Department" includes a person or authority authorised by the Government to act for all or any of the purposes of this Act;

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

(4) "Works" means construction works by a Department and includes works executed by the employment of labour by contractors or lessees including the lessees of the Forest Department.

3. Eligibility of registered contractor to undertake or offer to undertake to carry out a work. - No person shall be eligible to undertake or offer to undertake to carry out a work on behalf of a Department unless he is a registered contractor of that Department and holds a valid registration certificate as provided hereinafter.

4. Registration of contractors, certificate of registration. - (1) Application for registration as contractor shall be made to the Head of the Department in writing in the prescribed form.

(2) The Head of the Department or any officer authorised by the Government in this behalf may, after taking into consideration the financial position of the applicant, his capacity to undertake work and such other matters as he may deem fit, enter the name of the applicant in the register maintained for the purpose and issue certificate of registration as contractor for the Department under his control for the current financial year in such form and under such conditions and on payment of such fees as may be prescribed.

(3) For the purpose of this section and section 6, the rates of fee for different classes of contractors shall be determined in accordance with the rules made under this Act.