CHAPTER-VII MISCELLANEOUS

Section 46: Repeal and savings

The Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021

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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 Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972 (U.P. Act no. 13 of 1972) and, the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy (Second) Ordinance, 2021 is hereby repealed.

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, all cases and other proceedings under the Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972 (U.P. Act no. 13 of 1972) pending, at the commencement of this Act, shall be continued and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of the said Act of 1972 as if that Act had continued to be in force and this Act had not been enacted.

(3) All cases and proceedings relating to any dispute between a landlord and a tenant under any law other than the law repealed by sub-section (1) pending before the Civil Court or in appeal before any other Court on the date of commencement of this Act, in respect of the premises to which this Act applies, shall be continued before such Court and disposed of in accordance with such applicable law.

(4) NotwithStanding such repeal anything done or any action taken under the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Ordinance, 2021 (U.P. Ordinance no. 2 of 2021) and the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy (Second) Ordinance, 2021 (U.P. Ordinance no. 3 of 2021) shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provisions of this Act.

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