Act Number: 59

Act Name: The Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958

Year: 1958

Enactment Date: 1958-12-31

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 41: Controller to exercise powers of a magistrate for recovery of fine.
    Any fine imposed by a Controller under this Act shall be paid by the person fined within such time as may be allowed by the Controller and the Controller may, for good and sufficient reason, extend the time, and in default of such payment, the amount shall be recoverable as a fine under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, (5 of 1898) and the Controller shall be deemed to be a magistrate under the said Code for the purposes of such recovery.
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