State
Subject Definition Notification
20th April, 1927
Legal Document No
44
No. I-L/84. - The following
definition of the term "State Subject" has
been sanctioned by his Highness the Maharaja Bahadur
(vice Private Secretary's letter No. 2354, dated the
31st January, 1927 to the Revenue Member of Council)
and is hereby promulgated for general information.
The term State Subject means
and includes:
Class I. - All persons born
and residing within the State before the commencement
of the reign of His Highness the late Maharaja Ghulab
Singh Sahib Bahadur, and also persons who settled the
rein before the commencement of samvat year 1942, and
have since been permanently residing therein.
Class II. - All persons other
than those belonging to Class I who settled within the
State before the close of samvat year 1968, and
have since permanently resided and acquired immovable
property therein.
Class III. - All persons,
other than those belonging to Classes I and II
permanently residing within the State, who have
acquired under a rayatnama any immovable property
therein or WIZO may hereafter acquire such property
under an ijazatnama and may execute a rayatnama after
ten years continuous residence therein.
Class IV. - Companies which
have been registered as such within the State and
which, being companies in which the Government are
financially interested or as to the economic benefit
to the State or to the financial stability of which
the Government are satisfied, have by a special order
of His Highness been declared to be State subjects.
Note I. - In matters of
grants of the State scholarships State lands for
agricultural and house building purposes and
recruitment to State service, State subjects of Class
1 should receive preference over other classes and
those of Class 11, over Class III, subject, however,
to the order dated 31st January, 1927 of his Highness
the Maharaja Bahadur regarding employment of
hereditary State Subjects in Government service.
Note II. - The descendants of
the persons who have secured the status of any class
of the State Subjects will be entitled to. become the
State Subject of the same class. For example, if A is
declared a State Subject of Class II his sons and
grand sons will ipso facto acquire the status
of the same Class (II) and not of Class I.
Note III. - The wife or a
widow of a State Subject of any class shall acquire
the status of her husband as State Subject of the same
Class as her husband, so long as she resides in the
State and does not leave the State for permanent
residence out-side the State.
Note IV. - For the purpose of
the interpretation of the term 'State Subject' either
with reference to any law for the time being in force
or otherwise, the definition given in this Notification
as mended up to date shall be read as if such amended
definition existed in this Notification as originally
issued.
NOTIFICATION
(Issued by order of His
Highness the Maharaja Bahadur dated Srinagar, the 27th
June 1932, (14th Har, 1989, published In Government
Gazette dated 24th Har, 1989).
No.13L/1989. - -Whereas it is
necessary to determine the status of Jammu and Kashmir
State Subjects in foreign territories and to inform
the Government of Foreign States as to the position of
their nationals in this state, it is hereby commanded
and notified for public information, as follows:
- That all emigrants from
the Jammu and Kashmir State to foreign territories
shall be considered State Subjects and also the
descendants of these emigrants born aboard for two
generations. Provided that, these nationals of the
Jammu and Kashmir State shall not be entitled to
claim the internal rights granted to subjects of
this State by the laws, unless they fulfill the
conditions laid down by those laws and rules for
the specific purposes mentioned therein.
- The foreign nationals
residing in the State of Jammu and Kashmir shall
not acquire the nationality of the Jammu and
Kashmir State until after the age of 18 on
purchasing immovable property under permission of
an ijazatnama and on obtaining a rayatnama after
ten years continuous residence in the Jammu and
Kashmir State as laid down in Notification
No.-I-L. of 1984, dated 20th April, 1927.
- Certificates of
nationality of the Jammu and Kashmir State may, on
application, be granted by the Minister-in Charge
of the Political Department in accordance with the
provision of section I of this Notification.
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