Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Where, as the result of any alteration of the terms of the tenancy, the terms on which any premises are held are on the whole less favourable to the tenant than the previous terms, the rent shall be deemed to be increased for the purposes of this Part whether the sum payable as rent is increased or not. Bom. Ord. No. III of 1959. Application. Bom. XVI of 1939. Bom. VII of 1944. Rent in excess of standard rent illegal. Cases where rent to be deemed and not to be deemed to be increased. Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947 12 of 45 (2) Where, as the result of any alteration of the terms of the tenancy, the terms on which any premises are held are not on the whole less favourable to the tenant than the previous terms, the rent shall not be deemed to be increased for the purposes of this Part whether the sum payable as rent is increased or not.