Delhi (Urban Areas) Tenants Relief Act, 1961
No: 30 Dated: Aug, 28 1961
THE DELHI (URBAN AREAS) TENANTS’ RELIEF ACT, 1961
ACT NO. 30 OF 1961
An Act to provide relief to the tenants of land in the urban areas of the Union territory of Delhi.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twelfth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
1. Short title, extent and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Delhi (Urban Areas) Tenant’s Relief Act, 1961.
(2) It extends to the areas in the Union territory of Delhi which, immediately before the 1st day of November, 1956, were included in a municipality or in a notified area under the provisions of the Punjab Municipal Act, 1911 (Punjab Act 3 of 1911), or in a cantonment under the provisions of the Cantonments Act, 1924 (2 of 1924), but shall not apply to the areas owned by the Central Government or the Delhi Development Authority constituted under the Delhi Development Act, 1957 (61 of 1957), or any local authority.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Chief Commissioner may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) “Chief Commissioner” means the Chief Commissioner of Delhi;
(b) “family” means—
(i) in relation to a person belonging to a joint Hindu family, every member of such family; and
(ii) in relation to any other person, the person, the wife or husband, as the case may be, and the dependent children and grand-children, of such person;
(c) “land-holder” means a person under whom a tenant holds land and to whom the tenant is, or but for a special contract would be, liable to pay rent for the land;
(d) “person under disability” means,—
(i) a widow;
(ii) a minor whose father has died;
(iii) a woman who is unmarried or who, if married, is divorced or judicially separated from her husband or whose husband is a person falling under item (iv) or (v);
(iv) a member of the Armed Forces of the Union;
(v) a person incapable of cultivating land by reason of some physical or mental disability;
(vi) a person prosecuting studies in a recognised institution and not exceeding 25 years of age; or (vii) a person who is under detention or undergoing imprisonment;
(e) “tenant” and “tenancy” include a sub-tenant and a sub-tenancy respectively;
(f) the words “land” and “tenant” and all other words and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in the Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887 (16 of 1887), or the Agra Tenancy Act, 1901 (U.P. Act II of 1901), shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them,—
(i) in relation to areas to which the Punjab Tenancy Act, 1887 (16 of 1887), applies, in that Act; or
(ii) in relation to areas to which the Agra Tenancy Act, 1901 (U.P. Act II of 1901), applies, in that Act.