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Section 1: Short title extent and commencement

The Himachal Pradesh Urban Rent Control Act, 1987

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Text as published by the Law Department, Government of Himachal Pradesh, with amendments up to H.P. Act No. 8 of 2012.

The High Court of Himachal Pradesh in Chaman Lal Bali v. State of Himachal Pradesh (CWP No. 2072 of 1995, decided on 2 August 2016, reported as AIR 2016 HP 168) is reported to have declared section 4 unconstitutional, together with sections 5, 6, 7, 8 and 30(2) in so far as they depend on standard rent fixed under section 4. The official text still prints these provisions. We could not open the judgment on an official court site and found no order of the Supreme Court staying or reversing it.

H.P. Ordinance No. 4 of 2022, promulgated on 12 October 2022, amended section 14. No Act replacing it has been found, and an Ordinance that is not replaced by an Act ceases to operate, so this text does not show it.

(1) This Act may be called the Himachal Pradesh Urban Rent Control Act, 1987.

(2) It extends to all urban areas in the State of Himachal Pradesh.

(3) This Act shall and shall be deemed to have come into force on the 17th day of November, 1971, but–

(i) provisions contained in clauses(h) and (i) of sections 2; section 4; section 5; sub-section (2) of section 15; section 17; sub-section (3) of section 30; section 34 and Schedule-I of this Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the appointed day;

(ii) provisions contained in clause (d) of section 2; sub-sections (1) and (3) of section 15; section 16; section 27; section 28 and Schedule-II of this Act shall and shall be deemed to have come into force from the day on which the corresponding provisions were inserted in clause (d) of section 2; section 14-A; section 14-B; section 23-A and section 23-B of the Himachal Pradesh Urban Rent Control Act, 1971 (23 of 1971):

(iii) provisions contained in section 4 and section 29 of the Himachal Pradesh Urban Rent Control Act, 1971 (23 of 1971), shall be deemed to have remained in force during the period reckoned from the day on which these were substituted or inserted, as the case may be in the said Act, till the appointed day; and

(iv) provisions contained in section 35 shall come in to force at once.