JAMMU AND KASHMIR CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT
9. Jurisdiction of the Divisional Forum.
(1) Subject to the other provisions of this Act, the Divisional Forum shall have jurisdiction to entertain complaints where the value of the goods or services and the compensation if any, claimed is less than rupees fifty thousand.
(2) A complaint shall be instituted in a Divisional Forum within the local limits of whose jurisdiction :.
(a) the opposite party or each of the opposite parties, where there are more than one at the time of the institution of the complaint, actually and voluntarily resides or carries on business, or personally works for gain, or
(b) any of. the opposite parties, where there are more than one, at the time the institution of the complaint, actually and voluntarily resides or carries on business, or personally works for gain, provided that in such case either the permission of the Divisional Forum is given of the opposite parties who do not reside or, carry on business, or personally work for gain, as the case may be, acquiesce in such institution, or
(c) the cause of action, wholly or in part arises.
JAMMU AND KASHMIR CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT