Section 1 — Short title, extent, and commencement and application

(1) This Act may be called the Jammu and Kashmir Natural Calamities Destroyed Areas Improvement Act, 2011.

(2) It shall extend to the [whole of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir].

(3) It shall come into force from the date it is published in the [Official Gazette] but it shall also apply to such towns, villages and other areas which would have been destroyed wholly or partly by fire, flood, earth-quake or other such calamity on or after 1st Baisakh, 2009.