 bill no 145 of 1180 the delhi rent control (amendment) bill, i980 a billfurther to amend the delhi rent control act, 1958 be it enacted by parliament in the thirty-first year of the republic of india as follows: - 1 this act may be called the delhi rent control (amendment) act, short 1980 title 59 of 1958 the principal act), after section 3'8, the following sections shall be inserted, namely:-5 2 in the delhi rent control act, 1958 (hereinafter referred to as insertion of new sections 38aand 38b ic additional rent control tribunals '''38a (1) for the expeditious disposal of appeals and applications under section 38, the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, constitute as many additional rent control tribunals as it deems fit and appoint to each such additional rent control tribunal (hereinafter referred to as the additional tribunal) one person qualified for appointment to the tribunal in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (5) of that section is (2) notwithstanding anything contained in section 38, the tril:7unal may, by order in writing,-(a) specify the appeals or classes of appeals under subsection (1) of that section which may be preferred to and disposed of by each additional tribunal and the classes of cues in which each additional tribunal may exercise the powers of the tribunal under sub-section (4) of that section; (b) 4"~ uy  appeal or proceeding pending before it tor disposal to any additional tribunal; or (c) withdraw any appeal or proceeding pending before any additional tribunal and dispose it of itself or transfer the appeal or proceeding for' disposal to any other additional 5 tribunal (3) the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 38 shall apply in relation to an additional tribunal as they apply' in relation to the tribunal 38b the high co'ul't may also, on an application made to it or 10 otherwise, by order, transfer-(a) any appeal or proceeding pending before the tribunal to any additional tribunal; or | power    ||----------|| high     || court    || to       || transfer || appeals, || etc     |(b) any appeal or proceeding pending before any additional tribunal to the tribunal or to any other additional tribunal" 15 3 in sections 39 and 40 of the principal act, for the words "the tribunal", at each place where they occur, the words "the tribunal or an additional tribunal" shall be substituted amendmentof sections 39 and 40 l k secti(u) s6 at the principal act, for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:-20 amendmental section 56 h - "(3) every rule made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each house of parliament, while it is in session, for a total peried of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more sueceuive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the 25 aes~ or the suoce&&ive sessions aforel8id, both houses agree 'in making any modification in the rule or both houles agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in lucl1 modified form or be of no eflect, as the cate may be; so, how-ever, that any such modification or annulment shall be without 30 prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that nuie  section 38 of the delhi rent control act, 1958 deflls with the app~ls to the !tent control tribunal it pro\1ides for  a" single rent c'pritf9~ tribunal otmsisting of otle person only to be, appointed by t~ec'erittal govemment by n-otiftcation in the oftlc1algazette:· ttiere is !i(5~rovfsioil' for appointment of additiollm rentc6ntrof ttibunaja; , '" ' " - , i  2 the delhi high court has reported that' one rent control tribunal is not able to cope with appeals arising out of orders passa!'b'y' tti~ ~' rent controllers and additional rent controllers in janual"y, 1973, there were 900 appeals pending in the tribunal this number has gone up to 1605 as on 1st january, 1979 it is, therefore, proposed to amend the said act so as to make provisions for appointment of additional rent control ttibunals 3 opportunity is being availed of to amend the provision relating to the laying of rules before parliament to give effect to the recommendations of the committees on subordinate legislati'on of the houses of parliament 4 the bill seeks to achieve the above objects new delhi; p c sethi the 23rd july, 1980 clause 2 of the bill seeks to provide for the appointment of additional rent control tribunals for dealing with ever increasing number of appeals arising out of the orders of the rent controllers and additional rent controllers at delhi the existing district and sessions judges at delhi will be appointed as additional rent control tribunals and as such, no additional expenditure, either recurring or non-recurring, is involved (59 or 1958) - , - - e second appeal 31 (1') subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), an appeal shall lie to the high court from an order made by the tribunal within sixty days from the date of such order: provided that the high court may entertain the appeal after the expiry of the said period of sixty days, if it is satided that the appellent was prevented by sufficient cause from 1uing the appeal in time (2) no appeal shall lie under sub-8ection (1) i unless the appeal involves some substantial question of law amendment of orders  clerical or arithmetical mistakes in any order passed by a c0n-troller or the tribunal or errors arising therem from any accidental slip or omission may, at any time, ee corrected by the controller or the tribunal on an application received in this behalf from any of the parties or otherwise "  - - - ii (1) e e' - - power to make rules (3) all rules made udder' this section shall be laid for not leu thad tmrty days before each house of parliament as soon as poulble after they are made and &hall be subject to such modifteatlolls as pw)i'ldfiilt may make d\lring the seaion in whicll they are so laid or the 8eiiiion immedjately following ,, - - - - i":' 'c, ','" - a !«;dqq,,:  \~; 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