Notification No. 91/2019 [F.No.187/9/2019-ITA-I] / SO 4001(E)

What it does

Under sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 120 read with section 295 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, the Central Board of Direct Taxes amends the jurisdiction notification S.O. 2814(E) dated 3 November 2014. In the Schedule to that notification, against serial number 2, in column (4), item number (ii), the words "Jammu and Kashmir" are substituted by "the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Union territory of Ladakh", so that the territorial description matches the reorganisation.

Why it was issued

The explanatory memorandum certifies that no person is being adversely affected by giving retrospective effect to the notification.

Who it reaches

Assessees in the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh
The income-tax authority at serial number 2 of the Schedule
Officers deciding territorial jurisdiction over a case in that region
Advisers raising or answering a jurisdiction objection

The provisions it speaks to

Left, the provision of the Income-tax Act, 1961 as the instrument itself names it. Right, the section of the Income-tax Act, 2025 that the department’s own concordance maps it to — which is where the same ground is now covered.

Under the 1961 Act	Now
s.3	s.3
s.120	s.241, s.243
s.295	s.533

The instrument, as the Board published it

The department publishes this one only as a PDF, so the words below were read out of that PDF by machine. That reading can carry its own mistakes — a misread number, a broken line. Check the signed document before you rely on a figure in it.

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NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 5th November, 2019
(INCOME-TAX)
S.O. 4001(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 120 read with section 295 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following amendments in the notification of the Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue (Central Board of Direct Taxes), published in the Official Gazette vide number S.O. 2814(E), dated the 3rd November, 2014 (hereinafter referred to as the said notification), namely:-
1. In the said notification, in the Schedule, against the entries in serial number 2, in column (4) in item number (ii), for the words "Jammu and Kashmir", the words "the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Union territory of Ladakh" shall be substituted.
2. This notification shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from the 31st day of October, 2019.
[Notification No. 91 /2019/F.No. 187/9/2019-ITA-I]
PRAJNA PARAMITA, Director
Explanatory Memorandum : It is hereby certified that no person is being adversely affected by giving retrospective effect to this notification.
Note : The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, Subsection (ii) vide number S.O. 2814(E), dated the 3rd November, 2014.

From when

31 October 2019, retrospectively.

What to watch

The notification is deemed to have come into force with effect from 31 October 2019 and is therefore retrospective.
Only item (ii) of column (4) against serial number 2 is changed; the rest of the entry and of the Schedule stands.
The change is one of nomenclature following the reorganisation, and does not by itself move any case between charges.
A companion notification of the same date makes the same change to a different jurisdiction notification, so the correct principal notification must be identified.

Where you meet it

In identifying the income-tax authority competent for an assessee in Jammu and Kashmir or Ladakh, and in any jurisdiction objection to a notice.

On the same provision

Other instruments in this library that name the same provision of the 1961 Act. They are not necessarily still operative, and a later one may have replaced an earlier one without saying so.

Notification No. 94/2026 [F. No. 370142/24/2026-TPL] / G.S.R. 646(E) : Income-tax (Second Amendment) Rules, 2026 : Amendment of rule 157 of the Income tax Rules, 2026 to align the definition of the specified fund with rule 114AAB of the Income tax Rules, 1962 — Ministry of Finance 21 July 2026
Notification No. 64 — [भाग II—खण् ड 3(i)] भारत का रािपत्र : असाधारण 7 16 April 2026
Notification No. 63/2026 [F. No. 370142/13/2026-TPL]/ GSR 268(E) — 2 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(i)] 10 April 2026
Notification No. 62/2026 [F. No. 370142/10/2026-TPL]/ GSR 267(E) — Ministry of Finance 10 April 2026
Notification No. 61/2026 [F. No. 370142/9/2026-TPL] / GSR 266(E) — [भाग II—खण् ड 3(i)] भारत का रािपत्र : असाधारण 3 10 April 2026
Notification No. 60/2026 [F. No. 370142/8/2026-TPL]/ GSR 265(E) — 2 the Gazette of INDIA : Extraordinary [Part Ii—sec. 3(i)] 10 April 2026

← Notification No. 90/2019 [F.No.187/9/2019-ITA-I] / SO 4000(E) · Notification No. 92/2019 [F.No.187/9/2019-ITA-I] / SO 4002(E) →

What a notification is. A notification is made under a power the Act itself gives, and within that power it is law — unlike a circular, which only binds the department. Its reach is the reach of the enabling provision and no wider, and the date it carries decides from when it works.

Source: the Income Tax Department’s own published text — its page for this instrument.

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