Title : Limitation of Liability of Middlemen
State : Central
Year : 1958
No collector of rent or middleman shall be liable to pay to his principal, in respect of any premises, any sum by way of rental charges which exceeds, the amount which he is entitled under this Act to realise from the tenant or tenants of the premises. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Receipt to Be Given for Rent Paid
State : Central
Year : 1958
(1) Every tenant shall pay rent within the lime fixed by contract or in the absence of such contract, by the fifteenth day of the month next following the month for which it is payable1[and where any default occurs in the payment of rent, the tenant shall be liable to pay simple interest at the rate of fifteen per cent, per annum from the date on which such payment of rent is due to the date on which it is paid.] (2) Every tenanl who makes a payment of rent to his landlord shall be entitled to obtain forthwith from the landlord or his authorised agent a written receipt for the amount paid to him, signed by the landlord or his authorised agent: 2[Provided that it shall be open to the tenant to remit the rent to his landlord by postal money order.] (3) If the landlord or his..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Recovery of Possession by Manager or a Hotel or the Owner of a Lodging House
State : Central
Year : 1958
Notwithstandinganything contained in this Act, the manager of a hotel or the owner of a lodginghouse shall he entitled to recover possession of the accommodation provided byhim to a lodger on obtaining a certificate from the Controller certifying-- (a)that the lodger has been guilty of conduct which is a nuisance or which causesannoyance to any adjoining or neighboring ledger; Explanation:--Forthe purposes of this clause, "nuisance" shall be deemed to include anyact which constitutes an offence under the Suppression of Immoral Traffic inWomen and Girls Act, 1956 (104 of 1956); (b)that the accommodation is reasonably and bona fide required by the owner of thehotel or lodging house, as the case may be, either for his own occupation or forthe occupation of any person for whose..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Additional Rent Control Tribunals
State : Central
Year : 1958
1[ 38A. Additional Rent Control Tribunals.- (1) For the expeditious disposal of appeals and applications under section 38, the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute as many Additional Rent Control Tribunals as it deems fit and appoint to each such Additional Rent Control Tribunal (hereinafter referred to as the Additional Tribunal) one person qualified for appointment to the Tribunal in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (5) of that section. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 38, the Tribunal may, by order in writing,-- (a) specify the appeals or classes of appeals under sub-section (1) of that section which may be preferred to and disposed of by each Additional Tribunal and the classes of cases in which each..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Protection of Action Taken in Good Faith
State : Central
Year : 1958
No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any Controller or additional Controller in respect of anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of this Act. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Leaving Vehicle or Animal Unattended
State : Karnataka
Year : 1960
No person in charge of a vehicle or animal shall allow such vehicle or animal to stand or proceed on a highway or public place unless it is under adequate control. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Penalty
State : Central
Year : 1952
Any manager of a hotel or owner of a lodging house who- (i) fails or refuses to produce before the Controller any books of account or document or other information which the Controller may require him to produce under sub-section (3) of section 27, or refuses to allow the Controller or any person authorised by him under the said sub-section access to the premises to which the inquiry relates; or (ii) charges any amount in excess of the fair rate in contravention of section 26, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with fine or with both. View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Unlawful Changes Not to Be Claimed or Received
State : Central
Year : 1958
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, no person shall claim or receive any rent in excess of the standard rent, notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary. (2) No person shall, in consideration of the grant, renewal or continuance of a tenancy or sub-tenancy of any premises, -- (a) claim or receive the payment of any sum as premium or pugree or claim or receive any consideration whatsoever, in cash or in kind, in addition to the rent; or (b) except with the previous permission of the Controller, claim or receive the payment of any sum exceeding one month's rent of such premises as rent in advance. (3) It shall not be lawful for the tenant or any other person acting or purporting to act on behalf of the tenant or a sub-tenant to claim or receive any payment in..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Revision of Rent
State : Central
Year : 1958
1[6A. Revision of rent Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the standard rent, or, where no standard rent is fixed under the provisions of this Act in respect of any premises, the rent agreed upon between the landlord and the tenant, may be increased by ten per cent. every three years.] ____________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 57 of 1988, sec. 4 (w.e.f. 1-12-1988). View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionTitle : Lawful Increase of Standard Rent in Certain Cases and Recovery of Other Charges
State : Central
Year : 1958
(1) Where a landlord has at any time, before the commencement of this Act with or without the approval of the tenant or after the commencement of this Act with the written approval of the tenant or of the Controller, 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 rent of the premises, the landlord may lawfully increase the standard rent per year by an amount not exceeding1[ten 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..... View Complete Act List Judgments citing this section