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Section 39
The Jammu and Kashmir Land Revenue Act, 1996 (1939 A.d.)Jammu and Kashmir

Section 39. Presumption as to ownership of forest and water land

When in any record-of-rights it is not expressly provided that any forest, unclaimed, unoccupied, deserted or waste land, spontaneous product or other accessory interest in land belongs to the land holders it shall be presumed to belong to the 1[Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir].

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.