Section 44 UP Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021: Power to make rules

Section 44: Power to make rules

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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) The State Government may, by notification in the Gazette make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:-

(a) the form and manner of digital platform to be put in place by the State Government in the Hindi or English language for enabling submission of documents under sub-section (4) of section 4;

(b) the manner of payment of rent and other charges to the landlord by the tenant by postal money order or any other method and the manner of deposit of rent and other charges with the Rent Authority on refusal by landlord to accept the same under sub-section (1) and the manner of deposit of rent with the Rent Authority under sub-section (3) of section 14;

(d) form and manner of making an application for the recovery of possession of the premises under sub-section (1) of section 22;

(e) rate of interest payable under sections 21 and 24;

(f) the form and manner of filing application by the landlord before the Rent Authority for obtaining possession of the premises let out on rent for erecting building under sub-section (1) of section 27;

(g) the form of filing appeal before Rent Tribunal under sub-section (5) of section 34;

(h) any other matter to be provided under clause (k) of sub-section (1) of section 35;

(i) the manner of execution of an order of a Rent Tribunal or any other order made under this Act under sub-section (1) of section 36;

(j) any other matter which is required to be, or may be, prescribed under the provisions of this Act.