Chapter III Regulation of Letting

Section 17: Conditions of making allotment order

The Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972 (repealed)

Repealed in Uttar Pradesh by section 46(1) of the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021 (U.P. Act No. 16 of 2021), deemed in force from January 11, 2021, which provides that this Act "is hereby repealed", while section 46(2) keeps cases pending under it at that commencement to be decided under this Act.

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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This Act was repealed in Uttar Pradesh by section 46 of the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021, which saves the cases pending under it at the commencement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) Where the District Magistrate receives an intimation, under sub-section (1) of section 15, of the vacancy or expected vacancy of a building any allotment order in respect of that building shall be made and communicated to the landlord within twenty-one days from the date of receipt of such intimation, and where no such order is so made or communicated within the said period, the landlord may intimate to the District Magistrate the name of a person of his choice and thereupon the District Magistrate shall allot the building in favour, of the person so nominated unless for special and adequate reason to be recorded he allots it to any other person within ten days from the receipt of intimation of such nomination :

Provided that where the landlord had made an application under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 16, for the release of the whole or any part of the building or land appurtenant thereto in his favour, the said period of twenty-one days shall be computed from the date of decision on that application or where an application for review or an appeal is filed against such decision, from the date of decision on such application or appeal.

(2) Where a part of a building is in the occupation of the landlord for residential purposes or is released in his favour under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 16 for residential purposes, the allotment of the remaining part thereof under clause (a) of the said sub-section (1) shall be made in favour of a person nominated by the landlord.

[Explanation— Where a building in the occupation of the landlord for residential purposes adjoins (whether horizontally or vertically) the building sought to be allotted, and –

(a) there is a common entrance to or a common passage for both the buildings; or

(b) the two buildings share the sanitary conveniences or other amenities (not including electric connection);

then notwithstanding that the two buildings are independently fit for then notwithstanding that the two buildings are independently for residential purposes, they shall be deemed to be part of each other for the purposes of this sub-section.]¹

Footnotes in the official text

1.Substituted by section 10 of U. P. Act No. 28 of 1976.

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