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CHAPTER VI [APPELLATE AUTHORITY]

Section 52: Application to the Appellate Authority

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 The East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 is repealed for Punjab by section 75, subject to the savings in that section.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[(1) Subject to the other provisions of this Act, a person, aggrieved by any order pertaining to any matter within the jurisdiction of the Appellate Authority, may make an application to the Appellate Authority in the form specified in Schedule XIII appended to this Act for the redressal of his grievance.

(2) Every application under sub-section (1) shall be in such form and be accompanied by such affidavits, documents or any other evidence and by such fees in respect of the filing of such applications and by such other fees for the service or execution of processes under the provisions of the Court Fees Act 1870, as amended by the State Government from time to time.

(3) On receipt of an application under sub-section (1), the Appellate Authority shall, if satisfied after such inquiry as it may deem necessary that the application is a fit case for adjudication or trial by it, entertain such application but where the Appellate Authority is not so satisfied, it may summarily reject the application after recording its reasons.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Substituted by Punjab Act No. 23 of 2014, Section 13

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