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CHAPTER II RENT

Section 6: Payable Rent

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 The East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 is repealed for Punjab by section 75, subject to the savings in that section.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[The Rent payable in relation to the premises shall be agreed rent between the landlord and the tenant:

Provided that the agreed rent shall be increased by five per cent of the last rent for two years and thethird year increase shall be based upon the increase in the Consumer Price index over the corresponding three years.

Example.- If the Consumer Price Index increases by eighteen per cent in three years, the rent for the fourth year shall be the rent for the first year multiplied by one point eighteen. This cycle shall continue.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Substituted by Punjab Act No. 33 of 2013, Section 5

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