CHAPTER VI Penalties and Procedure
The Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972 (repealed)
Repealed in Uttar Pradesh by section 46(1) of the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021 (U.P. Act No. 16 of 2021), deemed in force from January 11, 2021, which provides that this Act "is hereby repealed", while section 46(2) keeps cases pending under it at that commencement to be decided under this Act.
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This Act was repealed in Uttar Pradesh by section 46 of the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021, which saves the cases pending under it at the commencement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 prosecution for an offence punishable under this act shall be instituted except on a complaint authorized by the District Magistrate:
Provided that where the District Magistrate has improperly or illegally declined to authorize the making of a complaint, the Commissioner may, of his own motion or on application made in this behalf, direct him so to do.
(2) No court inferior to that of a magistrate of the first class shall try any such offence.