Chapter I Preliminary

Section 2-B: Constitution of Rent Control Tribunals

The Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972 (repealed)

Repealed in Uttar Pradesh by section 46(1) of the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021 (U.P. Act No. 16 of 2021), deemed in force from January 11, 2021, which provides that this Act "is hereby repealed", while section 46(2) keeps cases pending under it at that commencement to be decided under this Act.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This Act was repealed in Uttar Pradesh by section 46 of the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021, which saves the cases pending under it at the commencement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) The State Government may, by a notified order, constitute one or more Tribunals (to be called Rent Control Tribunals) in each district and may likewise cancel or amend such order.

(2) Where a Tribunal has been constituted in a district under sub-section (1), the State Government may, by a notified order, confer all or any of the posers of the District Magistrate or the prescribed authority under this Act on such Tribunal. and thereupon, such Tribunal shall, notwithstanding anything contained in any other provision of this Act, be deemed to be the District Magistrate or the prescribed authority, as the case may be, for the purposes of this Act and all cases pending with the District Magistrate or with the prescribed authority, as the case may be, immediately before the constitution of such Tribunal shall stand transferred to the Tribunal and any further proceedings before the Tribunal shall continue from the stage at which a case is so transferred, and the cases shall be disposed of by the Tribunal.]¹

Footnotes in the official text

1.Added by section 3 of U.P. Act No. 28, 1976.

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