Jammu and Kashmir Special Security Group Act, 2000

No: 6 Dated: Apr, 18 2000

THE JAMMU AND KASHMIR SPECIAL SECURITY GROUP ACT, 2000

(Act No. VI of 2000)

    An Act to provide for the constitution and regulation of a separate security force in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir for providing proximate security to the Chief Minister, Members of his immediate family and matters connected therewith.

Be it enacted by the Jammu and Kashmir State Legislature in the Fifty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows :-

1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Jammu and Kashmir Special Security Group Act, 2000.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

2. Definitions. - In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-

(a) "active duty" in relation to a member of the Group means any duty as such member during the period when he is posted to physically protect the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and the members of his immediate family or any class of persons referred to in clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 4, wherever he or they may be;

(b) "Director" means the Director of the Group appointed under sub-section (1) of section 5;

(c) "Government" means the Government of Jammu and Kashmir;

(d) "Group" means the Jammu and Kashmir Special Security Group constituted under section 4 ;

(e) "member of the Group" means a person who has been appointed to the Group by the prescribed authority;

(f) "member of the immediate family" means-wife, husband, children and parents ;

(g) "Proximate Security" means protection provided from close quarters, during journey by road, rail, aircraft, watercraft or on foot or any other means of transport and shall include the places of functions, engagements, residence or halt and shall comprise ring round teams, isolation cordons, the sterile zone around, convoy security and the rostrum and access control to the person or members of his immediate family;

(h) All words and expressions used and not defined in this Act but defined in the Jammu and Kashmir State Ranbir Penal Code shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that code.

3. Members subject to this Act. - Every member of the Group shall be subject to this Act, wherever he may be.

4. Constitution of the Group. - (1) There shall be a separate force in the State of Jammu and Kashmir called the Jammu and Kashmir Special Security Group for providing proximate security to:-

(a) the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir;

(b) the members of immediate family of the Chief Minister;

(c) any such person or class of persons and for such period as the Government may, by notification in the Government Gazette, specify:

Provided that any member or members of the immediate family of the Chief Minister or any such person or class of persons covered under clauses (b) and (c) may decline such proximate security.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Group shall be constituted in such manner as may be prescribed and the terms and conditions of service of the members of the Group shall be such as may be prescribed.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, any person or any member of any other Police Force of the State of Jammu and Kashmir may be appointed to the Group by the Government, by a general or special order, and for such period as may be specified in such order and the person so appointed shall, during the period of his appointment, be deemed to be a member of the Group, and the provisions of this Act shall, so far as may be, apply to such person or member.