(1) The provisions of the Court Fees Act,1870 shall apply in respect of applications or appeals to be presented before the Rent Authority or Rent Court or Rent Tribunal, as the case may be.
(2) For the purposes of computation of court fees, the application for recovery of possession made to the Rent Court and the memorandum of appeals presented before the Rent Tribunal, shall be deemed to be a suit between the landlord and the tenant.
(3) The court fees for the application filed before the Rent Authority shall be same as that of an interlocutory application presented in a civil court.
Court fees.
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42. Every member of Rent Authority, Rent Court and Rent Tribunal appointed under this Regulation shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of section 21of the Indian Penal Code.
Members, etc., to be public servants.
43. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any person, Rent Authority, Rent Court or Rent Tribunal in respect of anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of this Regulation.
Protection of action taken in good faith
44.(1) The Administrator may, subject to the condition of previous publication, make rules for carrying out the provisions of this Regulation.
Power to makerules.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:––
(a) the form and manner of digital platform to be put in place by the Rent Authority for enabling submissions of documents under sub- section (3) of section 4;
(b) the manner of payment of rent and other charges to the landlord by the tenant by postal money order or any other method and the manner of deposit of rent and other charges with the Rent Authority on refusal by landlord to accept the same under sub-section (1) and the manner of deposit of rent with the Rent Authority under sub-section (2), of section 14;
(c) manner of making an application for the recovery of possession of the premises under sub-section (2) of section 21;
(d) form and manner of making an application for the recovery of possession of the premises under sub- section (1) of section 22;
(e) rate of interest payable to the tenant where the landlord fails to make refund under sub-section (2) of section 24;
(f) the form and manner of filing application by the landlord before the Rent Court for obtaining possession of the premises let out on rent for erecting building under sub- section (1) of section 27;
(g) the form of filing application before Rent Court and appeal before the Rent Tribunal under sub-section (5) of section 35;
(h) any other matter to be provided under clause (k) of subsection (1) of section 36;
(i) the manner of execution of an order of a Rent Court or a Rent Tribunal or any other order made under this Regulation under sub-section (1) of section 38;
(j) any other matter which is required to be, or may be, prescribed under the provisions of this Regulation.
45. Every rule made by the Administrator under this Regulation shall be laid as soon as may be, after it is made, before the Parliament.
Laying of rules.