CHAPTER V Regulation of other Rights and Obligations of Landlord and Tenant

Section 25: Prohibition of sub-letting

The Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972 (repealed)

Repealed in Uttar Pradesh by section 46(1) of the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021 (U.P. Act No. 16 of 2021), deemed in force from January 11, 2021, which provides that this Act "is hereby repealed", while section 46(2) keeps cases pending under it at that commencement to be decided under this Act.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This Act was repealed in Uttar Pradesh by section 46 of the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021, which saves the cases pending under it at the commencement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

(2) The tenant may with the permission in, writing of the landlord and of the District Magistrate, sub-let a part of the building.

Explanation-For the purposes of this section-

(i) where the tenant ceases, within the meaning of clause (b) of sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of section 12, to occupy the building or any part thereof he shall be deemed to have sub-let that building or part ;

(ii) lodging a person in a hotel or a lodging house shall not amount to sub-letting.

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