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CHAPTER VI [APPELLATE AUTHORITY]

Section 55: Appearance before the Appellate Authority

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 The East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 is repealed for Punjab by section 75, subject to the savings in that section.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[A person making an application or preferring an appeal to the Appellate Authority under this Act may either appear in person or take the assistance of a legal practitioner of his choice to present his case before the Appellate Authority.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Substituted by Punjab Act No. 23 of 2014, Section 15

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