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

Section 27: Enforcement of landlord’s obligation regarding amenities

The Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972 (repealed)

Repealed in Uttar Pradesh by section 46(1) of the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021 (U.P. Act No. 16 of 2021), deemed in force from January 11, 2021, which provides that this Act "is hereby repealed", while section 46(2) keeps cases pending under it at that commencement to be decided under this Act.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This Act was repealed in Uttar Pradesh by section 46 of the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021, which saves the cases pending under it at the commencement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 prescribed authority may, on an application of the tenant, serve upon the landlord a notice requiring him, within such period, not exceeding one week, as may be specified m the notice to restore any amenity alleged to have been cut-off, withheld or reduced in contravention of sub-section (1) of section 26 or to show cause why an order under this section be not passed against him.

(2) If the landlord fails to restore the amenity within the said period, or to show sufficient cause, the prescribed authority may by order permit the tenant, have the amenity restored at his cost, and there-upon the tenant shall be entitled to recover such cost as may be incurred by him in pursuance of the order, by deduction from the rent payable to the landlord, after furnishing to him the account of the expenditure, and nothing in section 6 shall be deemed to apply to such cost.

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