CHAPTER-IV RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE LANDLORD AND THE TENANT

Section 13: Rent and other charges payable and receipt for payment thereof

The Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021

How current this text is

Text of the Act as enacted, from the Uttar Pradesh Gazette (Extraordinary) of August 24, 2021 as published by India Code for the Government of Uttar Pradesh; the copy shows no later amendment.

Authoritative English translation published under clause (3) of Article 348 of the Constitution in the Uttar Pradesh Gazette, Extraordinary, August 24, 2021 (Notification No. 788(2)/LXXIX-V-1-21-1-ka-16-2021).

The official copy is a scanned gazette page; this text was read from the scan and checked line by line against the page images.

Section 1(4) provides that the Act is deemed to have come into force on January 11, 2021.

In Inder Bhushan Sawhney v. Kanchan Kumari Jain (Writ-A No. 13349 of 2024, 2026:AHC:177234-DB, decided on 21 August 2026), a Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court declared sections 8, 9, 10, 38 and 42 of this Act ultra vires from that date and held the provisions for eviction by order of the Rent Authority repugnant to the Transfer of Property Act, 1882. The text shown is the text as enacted. No order of the Supreme Court staying the judgment had been found when this page was checked (23 October 2026).

(1) Every tenant shall pay rent and other charges payable within such period as agreed to in the tenancy agreement.

(2) Every landlord or his property manager shall, on receipt of payment towards rent and other charges payable within the stipulated period as in the tenancy agreement from the tenant, provide forthwith against acknowledgement, a duly signed receipt for the amount received by him:

Provided that where the payment of rent or other charges is made by the tenant to the landlord through the electronic mode, the bank acknowledgement thereof shall be the conclusive proof of such payment:

Provided further that it shall be open to the tenant to remit the rent or other charges to his landlord by cash, cheque, bank draft, postal money order or by any other mode recognized by the law.

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