Section 34 Kerala Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act: Savings and special provision

Section 34: Savings and special provision

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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.

(1) Notwithstanding the expiry of the Kerala Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1959 (Kerala Act 16 of 1959) (hereinafter in this section referred to as the said Act), the provisions of sections 4 and 23 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Act, 1125 (Kerala Act VII of 1125), shall apply upon the expiry of the said Act as if it had then been repealed by this Act :

Provided that any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy which could have been instituted, continued or enforced under the said Act if it had not expired, may be instituted, continued or enforced under the corresponding provisions of this Act.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, no person shall be convicted of an offence under section 29 for having committed the same on or after the 1st day of April, 1965 and before the date of publication of this Act.

(3) If, after the 31st day of March, 1965 and before the publication of this Act, any suit or other proceeding has been instituted in any Civil Court which could not have been instituted if the Kerala Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1959 (Kerala Act 16 of 1959), had been in force on the date of such institution, then such suit or proceeding, if it is pending on the date of such publication, shall abate.