Jammu and Kashmir Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1990 (Act No. 13 of 1990).

This Act provides for the protection of animals from cruelty, unnecessary pain, overwork, torture and abuse.
The Act provides for penalties for: beating animals in public places; overloading animals; performing any process of introducing air or any substance into the female organ of a milk animal with the object of drawing off from the animal any secretion of milk; possessing the skin of a goat killed with unnecessary cruelty; etc.
The Act further provides for authorized maximum weight to be loaded on animals.