(1) This Act may be called the 2Telangana Buildings (Lease, Rent and Eviction) Control Act, 1960.
(2) (a) This Act, except sub-section (2) of section 3, shall apply to the cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, 3[Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada] Municipal Corporations 4[and to all municipal corporations and municipalities in the State of 2Telangana].
(b) sub-section (2) of section 3, shall apply to the cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, 3[Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada] and 4[to any municipal corporation or municipality in the State of 2Telangana], if the State Government, by notification in the Telangana Gazette so direct.
(c) the State Government may, by notification in the Telangana Gazette, apply all or any of the provisions of this Act except sub-section (2) of section 3 to any other area in the State of Telangana with effect from such date as may be specified in the notification, and may cancel or modify any such notification.
1. The Andhra Pradesh Buildings (Lease, Rent and Eviction) Control Act, 1960 in force in the combined State, as on 02.06.2014, has been adapted to the State of Telangana, under section 101 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 (Central Act 6 of 2014) vide. the Telangana Adaptation of Laws Order, 2016, issued in G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016.
2. Substituted by G.O.Ms.No.45, Law (F) Department, dated 01.06.2016.
3. Inserted by Act No.22 of 1985.
4. Substituted by Act No.27 of 1997.
Short title and application.
2 [Act No.XV of 1960]
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
(i) „Andhra area‟ means the territories which immediately before the 1st November 1956, were comprised in the State of Andhra;
(ii) „authorised officer‟ means any officer authorised by the Government under sub-section (1) of section 3;
(iii) „building‟ means any house or hut or part of a house or hut, let or to be let separately for residential or nonresidential purposes and includes-
(a) the gardens, grounds, garages and out-houses, if any, appurtenant to such house, hut or part of such house or hut and let or to be let along with such house or hut or part of such house or hut;
(b) any furniture supplied or any fittings affixed by the landlord for use in such house or hut or part of a house or hut;
but does not include a room in a hotel or boarding house;
(iv) „Controller‟ means any person not below the rank of a Tahsildar appointed by the Government to perform the functions of a Controller under this Act;
(v) „Government‟ means the State Government;
(vi) „landlord‟ means the owner of a building and includes a person who is receiving or is entitled to receive the rent of a building whether on his own account or on behalf of another person or on behalf of himself and others or as an agent, trustee, executor, administrator, receiver or guardian or who would so receive the rent or be entitled to receive the rent; if the building were let a tenant;
Definitions.
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Explanation.- A tenant who sub-lets a building shall be deemed to be a landlord within the meaning of this Act in relation to the sub-tenant;
(vii) „prescribed‟ means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(viii) „Telangana area‟ means the territories specified in sub-section (1) of section 3.of the States Reorganization Act, 1956 (Central Act 37 of 1956);
(ix) „tenant‟ means any person by whom or on whose account rent is payable for a building and includes the surviving spouse, or any son or daughter, of a deceased tenant who had been living with the tenant in the building as a member of the tenant‟s family up to the death of the tenant and a person continuing in possession after the termination of the tenancy in his favour, but does not include a person placed in occupation of a building, by its tenant or a person to whom the collection of rents or fees in a public market, cart-stand or slaughterhouse or of rents for shops has been framed out or leased by a local authority.