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Added by section 7 (ii) ibid. 20 [The Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972] [Section 13-16] (4) Any building or part which a landlord or tenant has ceased to occupy within the meaning of sub-section (1), or sub-section (2), or [sub- section (3) sub-section (3-A) or sub-section (3-B)]1 shall, for the purposes of this chapter, be deemed to be vacant. [(5) A tenant or, as the case may be, a member of his family, referred to in sub-section (3) shall have a right, as landlord of any residential building referred to in the said sub-section which may have been let out by him before the commencement of the Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) (Amendment) Act, 1976 to apply under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 21 for the eviction of his tenant from such building, notwithstanding that such building is one to which the remaining provisions of this Act do not apply.]2 Restrictions on occupation of building with- out allotment or release 13- Where a landlord or tenant ceases to occupy a building or pan thereof, no person shall occupy it in any capacity on his behalf, or otherwise than under an order of allotment or release under section 16, and if a person so purports to occupy it, he shall, without prejudice to the provisions of section 31, be deemed to be an unauthorized occupant of such building or part. [Regularization of occupation of existing tenants 14- Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or any other law for the time being in force, any licensee (within the meaning of section 2-A) or a tenant in occupation of a building with the consent of the immediately before the commencement of the Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) (Amendment) Act, 1976, not being a person against whom any suit or proceeding for eviction is pending before any court or authority on the date of such commencement shall be deemed to be in authorized licensee or tenant of such building.]3 Obligation to intimate vacancy to District magistrate 15- (1) Every landlord, shall on a building falling vacant by his ceasing to occupy it or by the tenant vacating it or by release from requisition or in any other manner whatsoever, give notice of the vacancy in writing to the District Magistrate not later than seven days after the occurrence of such vacancy, and such notice may at the option of the landlord be given before the occurrence of the vacancy.. (2) Every tenant so vacating a building shall give notice thereof in writing to the District Magistrate and also to the landlord not less than fifteen days before the vacancy. (3) The notice under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed. (4) The District Magistrate, on being satisfied on an application made to him in that behalf that there was sufficient cause for the landlord or the tenant not to give notice under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) within time, may condone such delay. Allotment and release of vacant building 16- (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the District magistrate may by order-