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. 
 
 
 
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[^2]. 

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]. 

(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[^2]” 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[^2] 
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]. 4th June, 2007, vide notification no. S.O. 943(E), dated 6th June, 2007, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii). 
[^2]. 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.