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CHAPTER VIII MISCELLANEOUS

Section 69: Rent Authorities to be public servants

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 The East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 is repealed for Punjab by section 75, subject to the savings in that section.

All Rent Authorities and Additional Rent Authorities appointed under this Act shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.

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