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CHAPTER IV PROTECTION OF TENANTS AGAINST EVICTION

Section 33: Permission to construct additional structure

The Punjab Rent Act, 1995

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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 The East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 is repealed for Punjab by section 75, subject to the savings in that section.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) The landlord shall have the right to construct further storeys on the roof.

(2) In case the landlord wishes to reconstruct or renovate a building which is more than twenty-five years old and for which he has obtained the required sanction from the competent authority for construction, the tenant shall temporarily vacate the building on being served with three months' notice. In such a case the old tenant shall get the first priority for occupation on revised rent as provided for in this Act. The old tenant shall not be entitled for any other compensation whatsoever.

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