Assam Urban Areas Rent Control Act, 1955

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    "slug": "assam-urban-areas-rent-control-act-1955-1955",
    "title": "Assam Urban Areas Rent Control Act, 1955",
    "short_title": "Assam Urban Areas Rent Control Act, 1955",
    "act_number": "(Assam Act No. 3 of 1956)",
    "act_year": 1955,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Assam Urban Areas Rent Control Act, 1955",
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    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent, commencement and duration.",
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            "content": "(b) The State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette extend it also to all such areas as are declared town lands under rule 64(a) of Settlement Rules under the Assam Land and Revenue Regulation, 1886 (Regulation 1 of 1886) or the Assam Land Revenue Reassessment Act, 1936 (Assam Act VIII of 1936).",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(i) \"The Court\" means the Court of ordinary Civil jurisdiction in the Area in which a house is situated which would be competent to pass a decree for the eviction of a tenant from that house;\n(ii) \"house\" means any building, hut or shed, or any part thereof, let or to be let separately for residential or non-residential purposes, and includes-\n(a) the garden, ground and out-houses, if any appurtenant to such building, hut, shed or part thereof; and\n(b) any furniture supplied by the landlord for use by the tenant in such house, but does not include any premises belonging to State Government or Central Government or a Local Authority;\n(iii) \"landlord\" means any person who is, for the time being, receiving, or entitled to receive rent in respect of any house whether on his own account, or on account, or on behalf, or for the benefit of any other person, or as a trustee, guardian or receiver for any other person ; and includes in respect of his sub-tenant, a tenant who has sublet any house and further includes every person not being a tenant who from time to time derives title under a landlord but does not include State Government or Central Government or a Local Authority ;\n(iv) \"standard rent\" in relation to any house means the average monthly rent actually paid by any tenant for the house over a period of twelve months from the first day of January 1946 to the thirty-first day of December 1946 ;\n(v) \"tenant\" means any person by whom or on whose behalf rent is payable for any house, and includes every person who from time to time derives title under a tenant;\n(vi) \"urban area\" means any area declared to be, or included in, a municipality under the provisions of clauses (a) and (b) of sub-section (2) of Section 5 or declared to be a notified area under the provisions of subsection (4) of section 328, or deemed to be such under the proviso to that sub-section of the Assam Municipal Act, 1923 (Assam Act I of 1923) and includes a Cantonment as defined in Cantonments Act, 1924 (Act II of 1924).",
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        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Fair Rent.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Procedure for determination of fair rent.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Refixing of fair rent.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 4
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Bar against passing and execution of decree and orders for ejection.",
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            "content": "(a) where the tenant has done any act contrary to the provisions of clause (m), clause (o) or clause (p) of section 108 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 (Act IV of 1882), or to the spirit of the aforesaid clauses in areas where the Act does not apply, or\n(b) where the tenant has been guilty of conduct which is a nuisance or an annoyance to the occupiers of the adjoining or neighbouring houses, or\n(c) where the house is bonafide required by the landlord either for purposes of repairs or re-building, or for his own occupation or for the occupation of any person for whose benefit the house is held, or where the landlord can show any other cause which may be deemed satisfactory by the Court, or\n(d) where the tenant sublets the house or any part thereof or otherwise transfers his interests in the house or any part thereof without permission in writing from the landlord, or\n(e) where the tenant has not paid the rent lawfully due from him in respect of the house or\n(f) where the tenant has built, acquired, or been allotted a suitable residence.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Duties of landlords.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 6
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Notice on landlord to perform duties.",
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            "content": "",
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            "sort_order": 7
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Appeals.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Rules.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Previous decisions orders, etc., to continue.",
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        }
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 6th June, 2020 [ass388]",
        "Act Number": "(Assam Act No. 3 of 1956)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1955",
        "Short Title": "Assam Urban Areas Rent Control Act, 1955",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}