The National Rural Employment Guarantee (Extension to Jammu and Kashmir) Act, 2007
# THE NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE
 (EXTENSIONTO JAMMU ANDKASHMIR) ACT, 2007
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 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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SECTIONS

1. Short title and commencement.
2. Extension and amendment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005.
3. Construction of reference to a law not in force in Jammu and Kashmir.


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# THE NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE
 (EXTENSION TO JAMMU AND KASHMIR) ACT, 2007

 ACT NO. 23 OF 2007

[11th May,2007.]

# An Act to provide for the extension of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 to
 the State of Jammu and Kashmir*.

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:–

**1. Short title and commencement.–(1) This Act maybe called the National Rural Employment**

Guarantee (Extension to Jammu and Kashmir*) Act, 2007.

(2) It shall come into force on such date[1] as the Central Government may, by notification in the

Official Gazette, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different areas in the State and any
reference to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of
that Act in such areas.

**2. Extension and amendment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005.–(1) The**

National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (42 of 2005) (hereinafter referred to as the principal
Act) and all rules, orders and schemes made there under by the Central Government are hereby extended
to, and shall be in force in, the State of Jammu and Kashmir*.

(2) With effect from the date of commencement of this Act, in the principal Act, in sub-section (2) of

section 1, the words “except the State of Jammu and Kashmir*” shall be omitted.

**3. Construction of reference to a law not in force in Jammu and Kashmir.–Any reference in any**

Act mentioned in the principal Act to a law which is not in force in the State of Jammu and Kashmir*
shall, in relation to that State, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force in that
State.

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1. 6th June, 2007, vide notification no. S.O. 943(E), dated 4th June, 2007, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii).
*. Vide notification No. S.O. 3912(E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is made applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and
Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.


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