The Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978
The Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978
The Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 allows the government to designate specific areas as prohibited or protected places to restrict access and maintain security. It also empowers authorities to regulate or ban the circulation of documents that threaten communal harmony or public order. These provisions apply to anyone entering restricted zones or attempting to evade guards, as well as to those handling restricted materials. The Act is important because it provides a legal mechanism for the administration to swiftly address potential threats to stability and prevent violence by controlling sensitive locations and the spread of inflammatory content, with time limits on these restrictions.
- 1. Short title and extent.
- 2. Definitions.
- 3. Prohibited places.
- 4. Protected areas.
- 5. Forcing or evading a guard.
- 6. Power to prohibit circulation within the State or entry into the State of certain documents.
- 7. Removal of doubts.
- 8. Detention of certain persons.
- 9. Execution of detention orders.
- 10. Power to regulate place and conditions.
- 10-A. Grounds of detention severable.
- 11. Detention orders not to be invalid or inoperative on certain grounds.
- 12. Powers in relations to absconding persons.
- 13. Grounds of order of detention to be disclosed to persons affected by the order.
- 14. Constitution of Advisory Board.
- 15. Reference to Advisory Board.
- 16. Procedure of Advisory Board.
- 17. Action upon report of Advisory Board.
- 18. Maximum period of detention.
- 19. Revocation of detention orders.
- 20. Temporary release of persons detained.
- 21. Cognizance of offences under this Act.
- 22. Protection of action taken under this Act.
- 23. Power to make rules.
- 24. Repeal and saving.
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