(1) Where a dispute arises with regard to the amount of the standard rent or to the amount of enhancement in rent permissible under section 5 or section 6 or to the date with effect from which such enhancement shall take effect, or to the amount of taxes payable by the tenant under section 7, or to the amount of proportionate rent payable by the tenant after a part of the building or any land appurtenant thereto is released under section 16 or section 21, or to the amount of rent payable by the original tenant for the new building allotted to him under sub-section (2) of section 24, the District Magistrate shall, on an application being made in that behalf by order [determine such dispute]1.
(2) Where the assessment of a building occupied by a tenant is lower them the agreed rent payable therefor, the District Magistrate, on an application of the tenant or of his own motion may, after giving to the landlord an opportunity of being heard, direct the local authority concerned to enhance the assessment in accordance with the agreed rent with effect from the elate from which the agreed rent has such payable or the date of commencement of this Act, whichever is later, and thereupon, notwithstanding anything contained in the law relating to that local authority, the assessment shall be corrected accordingly.
(3) Every order under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall, subject to the result of any appeal preferred under section 10, be final.
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- 1.Subs, by section 6 of President. Act No. 19 of 1973 which was re-enacted with modification by U. P. Act No. 30 of 1974.