Section 23
Permission to construct additional structures.
The Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958
About this Act
An Act to provide for the control of rents and evictions and of rates of hotels and lodging houses, and for the lease of vacant premises to Government, in certain areas in the Union territory of Delhi.
Where the landlord proposes to make any
improvement in, or construct any additional structure on, any building which has been let to a tenant and
the tenant refuses to allow the landlord to make such improvement or construct such additional structure
and the Controller, on an application made to him in this behalf by the landlord, is satisfied that the landlord
is ready and willing to commence the work and that such work will not cause any undue hardship to the
tenant, the Controller may permit the landlord to do such work and may make such other order as he thinks
fit in the circumstances of the case.