Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
('l) Notwithstanding anything contained in any contract or law to the contrary but sublect to the provisjons of the lndustrial Disputes Act, 1947 (Act 14 of 1947), and section 18, where a tenant is in 47 possession ol any building, heshall notbeliable to eviction there from except in execution of an order passed by the Controller on one or more of the following grounds : (a) for breach of the conditions of the tenancy, or for sub letting the building or any portion thereof without the consent of the landlord, or if he is an employee ol the landlord occupying the building as an employee, on his ceasing to be in such employment ; (b) where the condition of the building has materially deteriorated owing to acts of waste by, or negligence or default of the lenant or of any person residing with the tenant or for whose behaviour the tenant is responsible; (c) where the building is reasonably and in good faith required by the landlord for his own occupation or for the occupation of any person for whose benefit the building is held by the landlord. Provided that where the Controller thinks that the reasonable requirement of such occupation may be substantially satisfied by evicting the tenant from a part only of the building and allowing that tenant to continue occupation of the rest and the tenant agrees to such occupation, the Controller shall pass an order accordingly; and fix proportionately the standard rent for the portion in occupation of the tenant, which portion shall henceforth constitute the building within the meaning of clause (b) of section 2 and the rent so fixed shall be deemed to be the standard rent fixed under section '12. Explanation I : ln this clause, the word "landlord" shall not include an agent relerred to in clause (l) of section 2. Explanation ll :Where there are two or more buildings let out by the landlord, it will be for the landlord to choose which one would be preferable to him and the tenant or tenants shall not be allowed to question such preference. (d) where the amount of two month rent, lawfully payable by the tenant and due from him is in arrears by not having been paid wlthin the time fixed by contract or in the absence of 48 such contracl, by the last day of the month next following that for which the rent is payable or by not having been validly remitted or deposited in accordance with section 27; (e) in case of a tenant holding on a lease for a specified period, on expiry of the period of tenancy: and (f) the landlord requires the premises in order to carry out any building work at the instance of the Government orthe Municipality orthe lilunicipal Corporation or the Regional Development Authority or any other Authority within whose jurisdiction the building lies and such building work cannot be properly and fully canied out without the premises berng vacated. (2) (a) Where a servant of the Government in possession of any building private/government as a tenant intends to vacate such building, he shall give fifteen days previous notice in writing ol his intention to do so to the landlord and to the Collector who shall under intimation to the landlord within a week of receipt of the notice, either allot the building to any other servant of the Government whom the Collector thinks suitable subject to payment ol rent, and the observance of the conditions ol the tenancy by such servant of the Government or direct that the landlord shall be put in possession of the building. Provided that when no such order is passed by the Collecto( the landlord shallbe deemed to have been put in possession of the building. (b) Where a building is vacated by a servant of the Governmenl, any person occupying such building other than the person relerred to in clause (a) shall be liable to be evicted by the Collector in such manner as may be prescribed. Provided that after a landlord has been or is deemed to have been put in possession of such building, he may let it to any person. 49