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REGISTERED NO. DL-(N)04/0007/2003-25
The Gazette of India
CG-DL-E-03062025-26359
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 18]
NEW DELHI, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2025/JYAISTHA 12, 1947 (Saka)
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MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE
(Legislative Department)
New Delhi, the 2nd June, 2025/Jyaistha 12, 1947 (Saka)
THE UNION TERRITORY OF LADAKH RESERVATION
(AMENDMENT) REGULATION, 2025
No. 1 OF 2025
Promulgated by the President in the Seventy-sixth Year of the Republic of India.
A Regulation further to amend the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004
in its application to the Union territory of Ladakh.
In exercise of the powers conferred by article 240 of the Constitution read with
sub-section (2) of section 58 of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019,
the President is pleased to promulgate the following Regulation made by her:—
34 of 2019.
1. (1) This Regulation may be called the Union territory of Ladakh
Reservation (Amendment) Regulation, 2025.
(2) It extends to the whole of the Union territory of Ladakh.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Short title,
extent and
commencement.
XIV of 2004.
2. In the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004 (hereinafter referred to
as the principal Act), in section 3, in sub-section (1), for the first proviso, the
following proviso shall be substituted, namely:—
"Provided that the total percentage of reservation shall in no case exceed
85%, excluding reservation for Economically Weaker Sections:".
3. In the principal Act, in section 5,-
(a) in sub-section (1), the second proviso shall be omitted;
(b) after sub-section (4), the following sub-section shall be inserted,
namely:-
"(5) Nothing contained in this section shall apply to Economically
Weaker Sections and filling up of vacancies for such Sections shall be
in such manner as may be prescribed.".
4. In the principal Act, in section 6, for the first proviso, the following proviso
shall be substituted, namely:-
"Provided that the total percentage of reservation shall in no case exceed
85% of the available vacancies, excluding reservation for Economically
Weaker Sections:".
5. In the principal Act, in section 9, in sub-section (1), for the first proviso, the
following proviso shall be substituted, namely:—
"Provided that the total percentage of reservation shall in no case exceed
85%, excluding reservation for Economically Weaker Sections:".
DROUPADI MURMU,
President.
DR. RAJIV MANI,
Secretary to the Govt. of India.
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