MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE

(Legislative Department)

New Delhi, the 8th July, 2017/Ashadha 17, 1939 (Saka)

THE INTEGRATED GOODS AND SERVICES TAX (EXTENSION TO JAMMU AND KASHMIR) ORDINANCE, 2017

No. 4 OF 2017

Promulgated by the President in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India.

An Ordinance to provide for the extension of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 to the State of Jammu and Kashmir.

WHEREAS the Integrated Goods and Services Tax has been introduced in the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir with effect from the 22nd day of June, 2017;

AND WHEREAS the Legislative Assembly of the State of Jammu and Kashmir has passed the resolution adopting the provisions of the Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016;

AND WHEREAS Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Amendment Order, 2017 been issued by the President extending the provisions of the Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016 to the State of Jammu and Kashmir;

AND WHEREAS the State of Jammu and Kashmir has proposed to implement the integrated goods and services tax in the said State with effect from the 8^th  day of July, 2017;

AND WHEREAS the provisions of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 are required to be extended to the State of Jammu and Kashmir;

AND WHEREAS Parliament is not in session and the President is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary for him to take immediate action;

NOW, THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of article 123 of the Constitution, the President is pleased to promulgate the following Ordinance:-

Short title and commencement.

1. (1) This Ordinance may be called the Integrated Goods and Services Tax (Extension to Jammu and Kashmir) Ordinance, 2017.

     (2) It shall come into force at once.

Extension and amendment of Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017.

2. (1) The Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (13 of 2017.) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) and all rules, notifications, schemes and orders made thereunder by the Central Government are hereby extended to, and shall be in force in, the State of Jammu and Kashmir.

(2) With effect from the date of commencement of this  Ordinance, in-the principal Act, in section 1, in sub-section (2), the words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir' shall be omitted.

PRANAB MUKHERJEE,

President

DR. G. NARAYANA

Secretary to the Govt. of  India

Extension of Integrated GST to Jammu and Kashmir makes IGST Act operative in the State and removes its exclusion The Ordinance immediately extends the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 and all Central rules, notifications, schemes and orders thereunder to the State of Jammu and Kashmir and amends the principal Act by omitting the words that had excluded Jammu and Kashmir, thereby bringing the Act into force in the State.