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Section 3
The Jammu and Kashmir Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1988Jammu and Kashmir

Section 3. Appointment of estate officer

The Government may by notification in the 1[Government Gazette],––

(a) appoint such persons, being gazetted officers of Government or officers of equivalent rank of the statutory authority, as it thinks fit, to be estate officer for the purpose of this Act :

Provided that an officer of a statutory authority shall only be appointed as an estate officer in respect of the public premises controlled by that authority ;

(b) define the local limits within which, or the categories of public premises in respect of which, the estate officers shall exercise the powers conferred, and perform the duties imposed, on estate officers or under this Act.

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.