(1) Where any building belonging to a public charitable or public religious institution has been let out to a tenant for the purposes of a shop or commercial establishment, then notwithstanding anything contained in this Chapter or in any contract or lease, the landlord of such building may apply to the District Magistrate for revision of the monthly rent payable therefor and such rent shall be revised to a sum equivalent to one-twelfth of ten per centum of the market value of the building under tenancy:
Provided that the rent revised under this sub-section shall not exceed double the rent payable on the date of the application by the landlord under this sub-section.
(2) The rent revised under sub-section (1) shall be payable by the tenant from the commencement of the month of tenancy next following the date of the application.
(3) Where the rent of any building has been revised in accordance with sub-section (1), then the landlord shall not be entitled to move a fresh application under the said sub-section within a period of five years from the date of the final order.
Explanation— In this section, the expressions ‘shop’ and ‘commercial establishment’ shall have the meaning assigned to them in the Uttar Pradesh Dookan Aur Vanijya Adhishthan Adhiniyam, 1962, as amended from time to time.]1
Footnotes in the official text
- 1.Added by section 6 of U.P. Act No. 28, 1976.