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Section 7: Increase of rent in certain cases

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.

(1) Where the amount of the taxes and cesses payable by the landlord in respect of any building to a local authority has increased after fixation of the fair rent, such increase shall be recoverable by the landlord from the tenant :

Provided that no such increase exceeding five per cent of the original fair rent shall be so recovered from the tenant.

(2) Any dispute between the landlord and the tenant in regard to any increase claimed under sub-section (1), shall be decided by the Rent Control Court.

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