(1) In areas specified in Schedule I, this Part shall apply to premises let for residence, education, business, trade 42[or] storage 43[and also to open land let for building purposes ]:
44[Provided that the 45[State] Government may, by notification in the Official Gazelle, direct that in any of said areas, this Part shall cease to apply to premises, let for any of the said purposes:]
46[Provided further that the State Government may by like notification direct that in any of the said areas this Part shall re-apply to premises let for such of the aforesaid purposes as may be specified in the notification.]
47[(1A) The 45[State ] Government may, by notification in the Official Gazelle, direct that in any of the said areas, this Part shall apply to premises let for any other purpose.]
(2) In areas to which this Part is extended under sub-section (3) of section 2, it shall apply to premises let for such of the purposes referred to 48[in subsection (1) or notified under sub-section (1A)] or let for such standard rent as the 45[State] Government may, by notification in the Official Gazelle, specify.
7. Except where the rent is liabe to periodical increment by virtue of an agreement entered into before the 49[specified date] it shall not be lawful to claim or receive on account of rent for any Premises any increase above the standard rent unless the landlord was, before the coming into operation of this Act, entitled to recover such increase under the provisions of the Bombay Rent Restriction Act, 1939 or the Bombay Rents, Hotel Rates and Lodging House Rates (Control) Act, 1944, or is entitled to recover such increase under the provisions of this Act.