Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
f (2) "Controller" means a Controller appointed under sub-section (1) of section 28 and includes an Additional Controller and a Deputy Controller appointed under sub-section (2) of that section; 'This Act came into force on the 31st day of March, 1950 (vide Notification No. 3372L.R., dated the 29th March, 1950, published in the Calcutta Gazette, Extraordinary, dated the 31et March, 1950, Part, I, page 395). -As to the areas to which this Act has been extended, vide Notifications- No. 3374L.R., dated the 29th March, 1950, published in Part I of the, Calcutta Gazette, Extraordinary, dated the 31st March, 1950, pages 395-398 and No. 4922L.R., dated the 8th May, 1950, published in Part I of the Calcutta Gazette, dated the 25th May, 1950, page 989. 2 The West Bengal Premises Rent Control (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1950. [West Ben. Act (Chapter 1.—Preliminary.—Section 2.) (3) "hotel or lodging house" means an establishment where lodging with or without board or other service is provided for a monetary consideration; (4) "landlord" means any person who for the time being is receiving the rent of any premises from the tenant thereof and includes any person who is entitled to bring suit for such rent; (4) "manager of a hotel" includes any person in charge of the management of a hotel; (6) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (7) "owner of a lodging house" means any person who for the time being is receiving any monetary consideration from any person on account of board or lodging, or other service in the lodging house, and includes any person who is entitled to bring suit for such monetary consideration ; (8) "premises" means any building or part of a building or any hut or part of a hut let separately and includes— (a) the gardens, grounds and out-houses (if any) appertaining to such building or part of a building or hut or part of a hut, (b) any furniture supplied or any fittings affixed by the landlord for use of the tenant in such build- ing or part of a building or hut or part of a hut, but does not include a room or part of a room or other accommodation in a hotel or lodging house or a stall in a municipal market as defined in clause (44) of section 3 of the Calcutta Municipal Act, 1923, or in any other market maintained by or belonging to a local authority or a stall let at variable rents at different seasons of the year for the retail sale of goods in any other market as defined in clause (39) of section 3 of the Calcutta Municipal Act, 1923, or clause (30) of section 3 of the Bengal Municipal Act, 1932; (9) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act ; (70) "standard rent" in relation to any premises means— (a) the standard rent determined in accordance with the provisions of Schedule A, (b) where the rent has been fixed under section 9, the rent so fixed; or at which it would have been fixed if application were made under the said section; (11) "tenanr means any person by whom rent is, or but for a special contract would be, payable for any premises, and includes any person who is liable to be sued by the landlord for rent. Ben. Act III of 1923. Ben. Act XV of