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Section 19: Costs

The Kerala Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1965

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Text as published by India Code for the Government of Kerala (Law Department), with amendments up to Act 16 of 1974.

No later amending Act or Ordinance appears in the Kerala Law Department's index of State Acts and Ordinances (checked to 2026).

The Act was made as President's Act No. 2 of 1965 (enacted on 4 July 1965, Kerala Gazette Extraordinary No. 60 of 7 July 1965) and re-enacted by the Kerala Re-enacting Act, 1968 (Act 8 of 1968), which substituted the preamble and enacting formula shown above in square brackets.

The provision on reopening of orders for eviction in certain cases, inserted by Act 7 of 1966 and printed after the Schedule in this copy, is not reproduced as a section on this page.

Subject to such conditions and limitations, if any, as may be prescribed, the costs of and incident to all proceedings before the Rent Control Court or the appellate authority referred to in section 18 shall be in the discretion of the Rent Control Court or the appellate authority which shall have full power to determine by whom or out of what property and to what extent such costs are to be paid and to give all necessary directions for the purpose.

Explanation.—The appellate authority may set aside or vary any order passed by the Rent Control Court in regard to the costs of and incident to the proceedings before it.

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