Title : Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958
State : Central
Year : 1952
THE DELHI RENT CONTROL ACT, 1958 [Act, No. 59 of 1958] [31st December, 1958] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for the control of rents and evictions and of rates of hotels and lodging houses, and for the lease of vacant premises to Government, in certain areas in the Union territory of Delhi. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows: -- CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY 1. Short title, extent and commencement (1) This Act may be called the Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958. (2) It extends to the areas included within the limits of the New Delhi Municipal Committee and the Delhi Cantonment Board and to such urban areas within the limits of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi as are specified in the First Schedule: Provided that the Central..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Delhi and Ajmer Rent Control Act, 1952 [Repealed]
State : Central
Year : 1952
Preamble1 - DELHI AND AJMER RENT CONTROL ACT, 1952 Chapter I Section1 - Short title, extent and commencement Section2 - Definitions Section3 - Act not to apply to certain premises Chapter II Section4 - Rent in excess of standard rent not recoverable Section5 - Unlawful charges not to be claimed or received Section6 - Lawful increases of standard rent Section7 - Notice of increase of, or addition to, rent Section8 - Cases in which standard rent may be fixed by court Section9 - Fixation of interim rent by the court Section10 - Limitation of liability of middleman Section11 - Limitation for applications for fixation of standard rent Section12 - Refund of rent, premium, etc., not recoverable under this Act Chapter III Section13 - Protection of a tenant against eviction Section14..... List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Short Title, Extent and Commencement
State : Central
Year : 1952
(1) This Act may be called the Delhi and Ajmer Rent Control Act, 1952. (2) It extends to the areas specified in the First Schedule and may be extended by the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, to such other areas in the State of Delhi or Ajmer as may, from time to time, be specified in the notification: Provided that the Central Government may, at anytime, by a like notification direct that it shall cease to be in force in any such area, and with effect from such date, as may be specified in the notification. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Application of This Chapter
State : Central
Year : 1952
The provisions of this Chapter shall apply to all hotels and lodging houses within the Municipalities of New Delhi and Delhi and the Notified Area of the Civil Station, Delhi and may be applied by the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, to such other areas in the State of Delhi or Ajmer as may be specified in the notification. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Repeals and Savings
State : Central
Year : 1952
(1) The Delhi and Ajmer-Merwars Rent Control Act, 1947 (XIX of 1947) is hereby repealed. (2) Notwithstanding such repeal, all suits and other proceedings pending at the commencement of this Act, whether before any court or the Rent Controller appointed under the Fourth Schedule to the said Act, shall be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of the said Act as if the said Act had continued in force and this Act had not been passed: Provided that the procedure laid down in this Act shall, as far as may be, apply to suits and other proceedings pending before any court. (3) Part IV of the Bombay Rents, Hotel Rates and Lodging House Rates (Control) Act, 1944 (Bombay Act VII of 1944) as extended to the Municipality of New Delhi, the Notified Area of the Civil Station, Delhi and..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Lawful Increases of Standard Rent
State : Central
Year : 1952
(1) Where a landlord has at anytime, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, incurred expenditure for any improvement, addition or structural alteration in the premises , not being expenditure on decoration or tenantable repairs necessary or usual for such premises, and the cost of that improvement, addition or alteration has not been taken into account in determining the standard rent of the premises, the landlord may lawfully increase the standard rent per year by an amount not exceeding seven and a half per cent of such cost. (2) Where a landlord pays in respect of the premises any charge for electricity or water consumed in the premises or any other charge levied by a local authority having jurisdiction on the area which is ordinarily payable by the tenant, he may..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Fixation of Interim Rent by the Court
State : Central
Year : 1952
If an application for fixing the standard rent or for determining the lawful increase of such rent is made under section 8, the court shall, as expeditiously as possible, make an order specifying the amount of the rent or the lawful increase to be paid by the tenant to the landlord pending the final decision of the application and shall appoint a date from which the rent or lawful increase so specified shall be deemed to have effect. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Charges in Excess of Fair Rate Not Recoverable
State : Central
Year : 1952
When the Controller has determined the fair rate of charges- (a) the manager of the hotel or the owner of the lodging house, as the case may be, shall not charge any amount in excess of the fair rate and shall not, except with the previous written consent of the Controller, withdraw from the lodgers any concession or service allowed at the time when the Controller determined the fair rate; (b) any agreement for the payment of any charges in excess of such fair rate shall be void in respect of such excess and shall be construed as if it were an agreement for payment of the said fair rate; (c) any sum aid by a lodger in excess of the fair rate shall be recoverable by him at anytime within a period of six months from the date of the payment from the manager of the hotel or the owner..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Appeals
State : Central
Year : 1952
(1) Any person aggrieved by the order of the Controller under this Chapter may, within fifteen days on which the order is communicated to him, prefer an appeal in writing to the Chief Commissioner. (2) The Chief commissioner shall call for the record of the Controller and after examining the record and after making such further inquiry as he thinks fit either personally or through the Controller, shall decide the appeal. (3) The decision of the Chief Commissioner and subject only to such decision, the order of the Controller shall, for the purposes of this Chapter, be final. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Jurisdiction of Courts
State : Central
Year : 1952
(1) Any civil court in the State of Delhi or Ajmer which has jurisdiction to hear and decide a suit for recovery of possession of any premises shall have jurisdiction to hear and decide any case under this Act relating to such premises if it has pecuniary jurisdiction and is otherwise competent to hear and decide such a case under any law for the time being in force. (2) The value of any case under this Act, for the purposes of the pecuniary jurisdiction of the court, shall be determined by the amount of rent which is or would be payable for a period of twelve months, calculated according to the highest amount claimed in the case: Provided that in the case of any proceeding based on the certificate of the Controller under section 28, such value shall be determined by the amount of..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section