in 1964 the provision relating to the exception made in the case of number residential buildings fetching a rent of more than rupees four hundred per month was deleted with the result that tenants of number residential buildings were entitled to the protection afforded by the act irrespective of the rent paid by them.
thereafter pursuant to the recommendation made by a companymittee appointed by the government of tamil nadu in 1969 sec.
krishnamurthy and k.l.
keshwani k.p.
in 1961 this provision was amended by act 20 of 1961 so as to make the exception applicable to either a building or part thereof and on the basis of the actual rent paid by the tenant and number on the basis of the rental value as entered in the property register or assessment book of the municipality.
sampath r.n.
13732/83 5226/82 754/83 1117 13999 14101 17189 11226 and 12783/85.
original jurisdiction writ petition civil number.
mani mohan katarki prem malhotra g. sambandam a. subba rao s. srinivasan mahabir singh c. verma m.a.
upto the time of enactment of the tamil nadu buildings lease and rent companytrol act 1960 numberexception was made from the purview of the act in respect of any class of residential and number residential buildings based on the rent fetched by the buildings.
by sec.
30 ii for the first time the 1960 act excepted from the application of the act residential buildings which fetched a rent of more than rupees two hundred and fifty per month and number residential buildings which fetched a rent of more than rupees four hundred per month as entered in the property register or assessment book of the municipality.
this act also was later repealed and replaced by the madras buildings lease and rent companytrol act 1949.
the present act the tamil nadu buildings lease and rent companytrol act 1960 was enacted in 1960 repealing and replacing the 1949 act.
30 ii was further amended by act 23 of 1973 by substituting the figure rupees four hundred for the figure of rupees two hundred and fifty in that provision.
c. bhandare k.k.
padmanabhan a.t.m.
taneja for the petitioners.
