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CHAPTER V RENT AUTHORITIES

Section 36: Appointment of Rent Authorities and Additional Rent Authorities

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 The East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 is repealed for Punjab by section 75, subject to the savings in that section.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[(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint as many Rent Authorities as it thinks fit and define the limits within which each Rent Authority shall exercise the powers conferred and perform the duties imposed upon it by or under this Act.]

(2) The 2[State Government]may also, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint as many additional Rent Authorities as it thinks fit, and an additional Rent Authority shall perform such of the functions of the Rent Authority as may subject to the control of the 3[State Government]be assigned to him in writing by the Rent Authority and in the discharge of these functions, an Additional Rent Authority shall have and shall exercise the same powers and discharge the same duties as the Rent Authority.

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Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Substituted by Punjab Act No. 33 of 2013, Section 13
  2. 2.Substituted for word “Government” by Punjab Act No. 33 of 2013, Section 13
  3. 3.Substituted for word “Government” by Punjab Act No. 33 of 2013, Section 13
  4. 4.Omitted by Punjab Act No. 23 of 2014, Section 6

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