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Section 14
The Jammu and Kashmir Habitual Offenders (Control and Reform) Act, 1956Jammu and Kashmir

Section 14. Power to place registered persons in settlements

(1) The 1[Government of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir] may establish industrial, agricultural or reformatory settlements and schools and may order to be placed in such settlement or school any registered person :

Provided that no such order shall be made unless the necessity for making it has been established to the satisfaction of the 1[Government of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir] after an enquiry held by such authority and in such manner as may be prescribed.

(2) No order under sub-section (1) shall be for a term exceeding five years.

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.