Section 3:
Rule of construction respecting enactments not extending to the State of Jammu and Kashmir or Sikkim.
Any reference in this Act to a law which is not in force in *the State of 1
***
Sikkim shall, in relation to that State, be construed as a reference to the corresponding law, if any, in force
in that State.
STATE AMENDMENT
Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh
Section 3.--Omit "Jammu and Kashmir or".
[Vide Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central Laws) Order, 2020, Notification No.
S.O. 1123(E), dated (18-3-2020) and vide Union Territory of Ladakh Reorganisation (Adaptation of
Central Laws) Order, 2020, notification No. S.O. 3774(E), dated (23-10-2020).]
Notes:
1. The words "Jammu and Kashmir or" omitted by omitted by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Adaptation of Central
Laws) Order, 2020, vide notification No. S.O. 1123(E) dated (18-3-2020).
*. Now applicable to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh by the Notification of
Government of India, M/o Home Affairs vide No. S.O. 3912 (E), dated 30th October, 2019 (w.e.f. 31-10-2019).