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

Section 18: Information as to property manager

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).

In case the landlord has engaged a property manager, the landlord shall provide the following information to the tenant, namely:-

(a) name of the property manager;

(b) proof that such property manager is authorized by the landlord;

(c) specific purposes for which the property manager has been authorized by the landlord and the period of such authorization; and

(d) if the property manager is a legal entity, the name of the entity and the person authorized in this behalf by that legal entity who may be contacted in relation to the tenancy agreement.

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