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Chapter I Preliminary

Section 1: Short title, extent, application and commencement

The Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972 (repealed)

Repealed in Uttar Pradesh by section 46(1) of the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021 (U.P. Act No. 16 of 2021), deemed in force from January 11, 2021, which provides that this Act "is hereby repealed", while section 46(2) keeps cases pending under it at that commencement to be decided under this Act.

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for this Uttar Pradesh Act in its Uttarakhand collection (Department of Urban Development, file urban_buildings_(1).pdf), with amendments up to U.P. Act No. 17 of 1999; India Code has no Uttar Pradesh copy of this Act.

This Act was repealed in Uttar Pradesh by section 46 of the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021, which saves the cases pending under it at the commencement of that Act; it is shown here for those cases and for study.

Amendments made by Uttar Pradesh after U.P. Act No. 17 of 1999, if any, are not shown in this copy.

The copy is a typed edition and its typing errors (for example "licnece" in the heading of section 2-A) are reproduced as printed.

Sections 24-A, 24-B and 24-C carry no marginal heading in this copy.

Marginal references to other enactments (for example "U.P. Act no. II of 1959") printed beside the text are not reproduced.

In Inder Bhushan Sawhney v. Kanchan Kumari Jain (Writ-A No. 13349 of 2024, 2026:AHC:177234-DB, decided on 21 August 2026), the Allahabad High Court, declaring parts of the 2021 Act ultra vires, held that this Act "would spring back to life, of its own to the extent required".

(1) This Act may be called the Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972.

(2) It extends to the whole of Uttar Pradesh.

(3) It shall apply to-

(a) every city as defined in the Uttar Pradesh Nagar Mahapalika, Adhiniyam, 1959;

(b) every municipality as defined in the United Provinces Municipalities Act, 1916;

(c) every notified area, constituted under the United Provinces Municipalities Act, 1916; and

(d) every town area, constituted under the United Provinces Town Areas Act, 1914:

Provided that the State Government, if it is satisfied that it is necessary or expedient so to do in the interest of the general public, residing in any other local area, may by notification in the Gazette declare that this Act or any part thereof shall apply to such area, and thereupon this Act or part shall apply to such area :

Provided further that the State Government, if it is satisfied that it is necessary or expedient so to do in the interest of general public, may by notification in Gazette-

(i) cancel or amend any notification issued under the preceding proviso; or

(ii) declare that the Act or any part thereof, as the case may be, shall cease to apply to any such city, municipality, notified area town area or other local area as may be specified, and thereupon this Act or part shall cease to apply to that city, municipality, notified area town area or other local area, and may in the like manner cancel or amend such declaration.

(4) It shall come into force on such date1 as the State Government may me by notification in the Gazette appoint,

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.July 15, 1972 (vide. Notification no. 3409/XXIX-E-59-72 dated June 27,1972

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