Section 22: Time limit for making deposit and consequences of incorrect particulars in application for deposit

The Himachal Pradesh Urban Rent Control Act, 1987

How current this text is

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) No rent deposited under section 21 shall be considered to have been validly deposited under that section, unless the deposit is made within twenty-one days of the time referred to in section 20 for payment of the rent.

(2) No such deposit shall be considered to have been validly made, if the tenant willfully makes any false statement in his application for depositing the rent, unless the landlord had withdrawn the amount deposited before the date of filing an application for the recovery of possession of the building or rented land from the tenant.

(3) If the rent is deposited within the time mentioned in sub-section (l) and does not cease to be a valid deposit for the reason mentioned in sub-section (2), the deposit shall constitute payment of rent to the landlord as if the amount deposited had been validly tendered.

Questions on this section

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1. Under Section 22(1) of the Himachal Pradesh Urban Rent Control Act, 1987, rent deposited under Section 21 is validly deposited only if the deposit is made within how many days of the time referred to in Section 20 for payment of the rent?