Title : Power to Make Rules
State : Central
Year : 1958
(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely: -- 1[(a) the manner of approval of valuers and the procedure to be followed by such valuers under the proviso to sub-section (2) of section 9;] 2[(aa)] the form and manner in which, and the period within which, an application may be made to the Controller; (b) the form and manner in which an application for deposit or rent may be made and the particulars which it may contain; (c) the manner in which a Controller may hold an inquiry under this Act; (d) the powers of the civil court which may be vested..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 [Repealed]
State : Central
Year : 1958
Preamble1 - DELHI RENT CONTROL ACT, 1958 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 changes not to be claimed or received Section6 - Standard rent Section6A - Revision of rent Section7 - Lawful increase of standard rent in certain cases and recovery of other charges Section8 - Notice of increase of rent Section9 - Controller to fix standard rent, etc. Section10 - Fixation of interim rent Section11 - Limitation of liability of middlemen Section12 - Limitation for application for fixation of standard rent Section13 - Refund of rent, premium, etc., not recoverable under the Act Chapter III Section14 -..... List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Delhi Rent Act, 1995
State : Central
Year : 1958
THE DELHI RENT ACT, 1995 [Act, No. 33 of 1995] [23rdAugust, 1995] PREAMBLE AnAct to provide for the regulation of rents repairs and maintenance and evictionsrelating to premises and of rates of hotels and lodging houses in the NationalCapital Territory of Delhi. be it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-sixth Year of the Republic ofIndia as follows:-- 1. Short title, extent and commencement (1) This Act may becalled the Delhi Rent Act, 1995. (2) It extends to theareas included within the limits of the New Delhi Municipal Council and theDelhi Cantonment Board and to urban areas within the limits of the MunicipalCorporation of Delhi for the time being: Providedthat the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,exclude any area from the operation of..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Application of the Chapter
State : Central
Year : 1958
The provisions of this Chapter shall apply to all hotels and lodging houses in the areas which, immediately before the 7th day of April, 1958, were included in the New Delhi Municipal Committee, Municipal Committee, Delhi and the Notified Area Committee, Civil Station, Delhi and may be applied by the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, to hotels and lodging houses within the limits of such other urban area of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi as may be specified in the notification: Provided that if the Central Government is of opinion that it would not be desirable in the public interest to make the provisions of this Chapter applicable to any class of hotels or lodging houses, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette, exempt such class of hotels or..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Landlord's duty to keep the premises in good repair
State : Central
Year : 1958
(1) Every landlord shall be bound to keep the premises in good and tenantable repairs. (2) If the landlord neglects or fails to make, within a reasonable time after notice in writing, any repairs which he is bound to make under sub-section (1) the tenant may make the same himself and deduct the expenses of such repairs from the rent or otherwise recover them from the landlord: Provided that the amount so deducted or recoverable in any year shall not exceed one-twelfth of the rent payable by the tenant for that year. (3) Where any repairs without which the premises are not habitable or usable except with undue inconvenience are to be made and the landlord neglects or fails to make them after notice in writing, the tenant may apply to the Controller for permission to make such..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Standard Rent
State : Central
Year : 1958
(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), "standard rent", in relation to any premises means-- (A) in the case of residential premises-- (1) where such premises have been let out at any time before the 2nd day of June, 1944,-- (a) if the basic rent of such premises per annum does not exceed six hundred rupees, the basic rent; or (b) if the basic rent of such premises per annum exceeds six hundred rupees, the basic rent together with ten per cent. of such basic rent; (2) where such premises have been let out at any lime on or after the 2nd day of June, 1944,-- (a) in any case where the rent of such premises has been fixed under the Delhi and Ajmer-Merwara Rent Control Act, 1947 (19 of 1947), or the Delhi and Ajmer Rent Control Act, 1952 (38 of 1952),-- (i) if such..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Fixation of Interim Rent
State : Central
Year : 1958
If an application for fixing the standard rent or for determining the lawful increase of such rent is made under section 9, the Controller 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 final decision on the application and shall appoint the date from which the rent or lawful increase so specified shall be deemed to have effect. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Saving as to Acceptance of Rent and Forfeiture of Rent in Deposit
State : Central
Year : 1958
(1) The withdrawal of rent deposited under section 27 in the manner provided therein shall not operate as an admission against the person withdrawing it of the correctness of the rate of rent, the period of default, the amount due, or of any other facts stated in the tenant's application for depositing the rent under the said section. (2) Any rent in deposit which is not withdrawn by the landlord or by the person or persons entitled to receive such rent shall be forfeited to Government by an order made by the Controller, if it is not withdrawn before the expiration of five years from the date of posting of the notice of deposit. (3) Before passing an order of forfeiture the Controller shall give notice to the landlord or the person or persons entitled to receive the rent in deposit..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Short Title, Extent and Commencement
State : Central
Year : 1958
(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 Government; may, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend this Act or any provision thereof, to any other urban area included within the limits of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi of exclude any area from the operation of this Act or any provision thereof. (3) It shall come into force on such date1as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. __________________________ 1. Came into force on 9-2-1959 ov vide..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Refund of Rent, Premium, Etc., Not Recoverable Under the Act
State : Central
Year : 1958
Where any sum or other consideration has been paid, whether before or after the commencement of this Act, by or on behalf of a tenant to a landlord, in contravention of any of the provisions of this Act or of the Delhi and Ajmer Rent Control Act, 1952 (38 of 1952), the Controller may, on an application made to him within a period of one year from the date of such payment, order the landlord to refund such sum or the value of such consideration to the tenant or order adjustment of such sum or the value of such consideration against the rent payable by the tenant. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section