State Act: Punjab
The Punjab Rent Act, 1995
Act Punjab Act No. 13 of 2012 · 58 sections
Text as published by India Code for the Government of Punjab (compilation of the Department of Legal and Legislative Affairs, Punjab, as amended up to 15 September 2025), with amendments up to Punjab Act No. 23 of 2014.
India Code records, in a footnote to section 1(4), that this Act came into force on 30 November 2013. The East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 is repealed for Punjab by section 75, subject to the savings in that section.
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Title, date and preamble
[Received the assent of the President of India on the 26th March, 1998 and was first published for general information in the Punjab Government Gazette (Extraordinary), Legislative Supplement, dated the 10th October, 2012.]
An Act to provide for the regulation of rents, repairs and maintenance and eviction relating to premises and matters connected therewith in the Stateof Punjab.
BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Forty-sixth Year of the Republic of India, as follows:-
Contents
CHAPTER-I PRELIMINARY
CHAPTER II RENT
- 6.Payable Rent
- 7.***
- 8.Other charges payable
- 9.Revision of rent in certain cases
- 10.Notice of revision of rent
- 11 & 12.***
- 13.Receipt to be given for rent paid
- 14.Deposit of rent
- 15.Time limit for making deposit and consequences of incorrect particulars in application for deposit
- 16.Saving as to acceptance of rent and other charges payable and forfeiture in deposit
CHAPTER III REPAIRS OF PREMISES
CHAPTER IV PROTECTION OF TENANTS AGAINST EVICTION
- 20.Protection of tenants against eviction
- 21.Right to recover immediate possession of premises to accrue to certain persons
- 22.Right to recover immediate possession of premises to accrue to members of armed forces
- 23.Right to recover immediate possession of premises to accrue to Central and State Government employees
- 24.Right to recover immediate possession of premises to accrue to widows, handicapped persons, old persons, freedom fighters and non-resident Indians
- 25.Payment of rent during eviction proceedings
- 26.Restrictions on sub-letting
- 27.Notice of creation and termination of sub-tenancy
- 28.Sub-tenant to be tenant in certain cases
- 29.Recovery of possession for occupation and re-entry
- 30.Recovery of possession for repair
- 31.Recovery of possession in case of tenancies for limited period
- 32.Special provision for recovery of possession in certain cases
- 33.Permission to construct additional structure
- 34.Special provisions regarding vacant building sites
- 35.Vacant possession to landlord
CHAPTER V RENT AUTHORITIES
CHAPTER VI [APPELLATE AUTHORITY]
CHAPTER VII PENALTIES
Schedules and appendices
Schedules are not yet reproduced here. Read them in the official file; each link opens the page where the Schedule begins.
- SCHEDULE I Form of Agreement
- SCHEDULE II Repairs & Responsibility
- SCHEDULE III Form of Summons
- SCHEDULE IV
- SCHEDULE V Form of notice for Enhancement of rent
- SCHEDULE VI Form of notice for inspection
- SCHEDULE VII Form of Notice for payment of arrears
- SCHEDULE VIII
- SCHEDULE IX Form of application for re-letting under section 29
- SCHEDULE X Form of notice under section 27
- SCHEDULE XI Form of application for re-entry under sub-section (2) of section 29 and sub-section (4) of section 30
- SCHEDULE XII Form of application for Eviction under sub-section (2) of section 20
- SCHEDULE XIII [Form of application for appeal to the Appellate Authority under section 52.]
- SCHEDULE XIV Form of application for permission for limited period tenancy under section 31
- SCHEDULE XV