Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Fixation of fair rent suo moto by court. (1) If during the course of a proceeding under this Act, it is disclosed that a landlord was receiving a rent in excess of the rent that may be fixed under S. 5, the court before which the complaint was filed shall, after the colose of the proceedings before it, forward to the Rent Control Court the relevant extracts of the proceedings for the purpose of fixing the fair rent. (2) The Rent Control Court, on receipt of such-extracts of proceedings, shall issue notice to the concerned landlord and tenant and after giving them an opportunity of being heard fix the fair rent of the building and the fair rent so fixed shall be deemed to be fair rent as determined under S. 5.