State Act: Karnataka
The Karnataka Rent Act, 1999
Act Karnataka Act No. 34 of 2001 · 70 sections
Text as published by India Code for the Government of Karnataka (Revenue Department), with amendments up to Karnataka Act No. 07 of 2026 (the Karnataka Rent (Amendment) Act, 2025, in force from 8 January 2026).
Title, date and preamble
(First published in the Karnataka Gazette Extraordinary on the Twenty Seventh day of November 2001)
(Received in the assent of the Governor of Karnataka on the Twenty Second day of November 2001)
An Act to provide for the regulation of rent and eviction of buildings, in certain areas of the State of Karnataka, and for the matters connected their with or incidental thereto.
Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the fiftieth year of the Republic of India, as follows:-
Contents
CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY
CHAPTER II REGULATION OF RENT
- 4.Tenancy agreement to be in writing
- 5.Inheritability of tenancy
- 6.Rent payable
- 7.Standard rent
- 8.Other charges payable
- 9.Revision of rent in certain cases
- 10.Notice of revision of rent
- 11.Unlawful charges not to be claimed
- 12.Controller to fix standard rent, etc
- 13.Fixation of interim rent
- 14.Limitation for application for fixation of standard rent etc
- 15.Refund of rent, premium, etc.,
- 16.Receipt to be given for rent and other charges paid
CHAPTER III DEPOSIT OF RENT
CHAPTER IV Registration of Middlemen or Estate Agents
CHAPTER V controllers, their powers and procedure
CHAPTER VI REGULATION OF EVICTION
- 27.Protection of tenants against eviction
- 28.Right to recover immediate possession of premises to accrue to certain persons
- 29.Right to recover immediate possession of premises to accrue to members of the armed forces, etc
- 30.Right to recover immediate possession of premises to accrue to employee of State or Central Government
- 31.Right to recover immediate possession of premises to accrue to a widow
- 32.Restriction on sub-letting
- 33.Notice of creation and termination of sub-tenancy
- 34.Sub-tenant to be tenant in certain cases
- 35.Recovery of possession for occupation and re-entry
- 36.Recovery of possession for repairs and re-building and re
- 37.Recovery of possession in case of tenancies for limited period
- 38.Special provision for recovery of possession in certain cases
- 39.Permission to construct additional structures
- 40.Special provision regarding vacant building sites
- 41.Vacant possession to landlord
- 42.Procedure to be followed by the Court
- 43.Dispute of relationship of landlord and tenant
- 44.Court to promote negotiated settlement of disputes
- 45.Deposit and payment of rent during the pendency of proceedings for eviction
- 46.Revision
CHAPTER VII SPECIAL OBLIGATIONS OF LANDLORDS AND TENANTS
CHAPTER VIII miscellaneous
- 50.Jurisdiction of Civil Courts barred in respect of certain matters
- 51.Proceedings by or against legal representatives
- 52.Landlord and tenant to furnish particulars
- 53.[Omitted]
- 54.Offences and penalties
- 55.[Contraventions] by companies etc
- 56.Controllers to be public servants
- 57.Protection of action taken in good faith
- 58.Controller to recover fines as arrears of land revenue
- 59.Procedure in Appeals
- 60.All proceedings before the Controller to be judical proceedings
- 61.Decisions which have become final not tobe reopened
- 62.Orders to be pronounced in open Court
- 63.Finality of Orders
- 64.Amendment of Orders
- 65.Costs
- 66.Power to make rules
- 67.Rules and Notifications to be laid before the State Legislature
- 68.Removal of difficulties
- 69.Transfer of pending cases
- 70.Repeal and Savings
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