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Section 12
The Jammu and Kashmir Habitual Offenders (Control and Reform) Act, 1956Jammu and Kashmir

Section 12. Power to vary specified area or place of residence

The 1[Government of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir] may, by a like notification, vary the terms of notification issued by it under section 11 for the purposes of specifying another restricted area or another place of residence, as the case may be, and any officer empowered in this behalf by 1[Government of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir] may, by order in writing, vary any notification made under section 11 or under this section for the purposes of specifying another restricted area, or, as the case may be, another place of residence in the same district.

1Superscript markers show text inserted or substituted by a later amendment. The Act carries the markers without the footnotes they refer to, so they are shown without a target.