Section 1: Short title, extent, application and commencement

The Punjab Rent Act, 1995

How current this text is

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 The East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 is repealed for Punjab by section 75, subject to the savings in that section.

(1) This Act may be called the Punjab Rent Act, 1995.

(2) It extends to all urban areas of Punjab, but nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the regulation of house accommodation in any cantonment area.

(3) It shall be applicable to all the residential and non-residential buildings.

(4) It shall come into force¹ on such date as the State Government may specify in this behalf in the Official Gazette.

Footnotes in the official text

1.This Act has come into force w.e.f. 30.11.2013.

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