Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Subs. by section 18 (iii) ibid. 34 [The Uttar Pradesh Urban Buildings (Regulation of Letting, Rent and Eviction) Act, 1972] [Section 28A-29] (5) The prescribed authority on receiving an application under sub-section (4) may, after giving an opportunity of hearing to the parties- (a) either reject the application; or (b) require the landlord to carry out the requisite major re-pairs within such period as may be specified in the order, and on his failure to do so, permit the tenant to carry out those repairs at a cost not exceeding such amount (which shall not be more than the amount of two years rent) and within such period as may be specified in the order. (6) Where in pursuance of an order under sub-section (5) any major repairs are carried out by the tenant, he shall furnish an account of the expenditure to the prescribed authority, which shall certify the amount recoverable by the tenant, and thereupon such amount, unless paid or otherwise adjusted by the landlord, may be deducted by the tenant from the rent in monthly installments not exceeding twenty- five per cent of one month's rent, and in any such case, the enhancement of rent under section 6 shall come into effect only from the month following the month in which the cost is fully recovered by the tenant. (7) No appeal or revision shall lie from any order of the prescribed authority under sub-section (5) or sub-section (6), which shall be final. [Alteration and improvement not to be made by sub-tenant 28-A Nothing in section 6 or clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 20, or sub- section (3) of section 26 shall be construed to confer on any sub-tenant a right to make any alteration or improvement in ay building otherwise than in accordance with the terms of the tenancy. Tenancy right to get water connection and sanitary fittings installed 28-B Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force relating to a local authority, the tenant (including a sub-tenant) shall have the right to get water connection, electric connection and sanitary fittings installed in the building under his tenancy at his own cost, and the provisions of sub-section (3) of section 26 shall apply in relation to every such installation.]1 Special protection to tenants of buildings destroyed by collective disturbances, etc. 29- (1) Where in consequence of the commission of mischief or any other offence in the course of collective disturbances, any building under tenancy is wholly or partly destroyed the tenant shall have the right to re-erect it wholly or partly as the case may be, at his own expenses within a period of six months from such injury: Provided that if such injury was occasioned by the wrongful ad or default of the tenant he shall not be entitled to avail himself of the benefit of this provision. (2) Where in consequence of fire, tempest, flood or excessive rain-fall, any building under tenancy is wholly or partly destroyed the tenant shall have the right to re-erect or repair it wholly or partly, as the case may be, at his own expense after giving a notice in Writing to the landlord within a period of one month from such injury: