suit of valuation Act been no defect of jurisdiction in the Court of first
Section 3. Power for 6[Provincial Government] to
make rules determining value of land for
jurisdictional purposes.
(1) The 7[Provincial Government] may, 8[* * * * *],
make rules for determining the value of land for
purposes of jurisdiction in the suits
mentioned in the Court-fees Act, 18709, section 7,
paragraphs v and vi, and paragraph
x, clause (d).
(2) The rules may determine the value of any class
of land, or of any interest
in land, in the whole or any part of a local area and
may prescribe different values for
different places within the same local area.
Section 11. Procedure where objection is taken on
appeal or revision that a suit or
appeal was not properly valued for jurisdictional
purposes.
(1) Notwithstanding anything in section 578 of the
Code of Civil Procedure24, an objection that by
reason of the over-valuation or under-valuation of a
suit or appeal a Court of first instance or lower
appellate Court which had not jurisdiction with
respect to the suit or appeal exercised jurisdiction
with respect thereto shall not be entertained by an
appellate Court unless.
(a) the objection was taken in the Court of first
instance at or before the hearing at which issues were
first framed and recorded, or in the lower appellate
Court in the memorandum of appeal to that Court, or
(b) the appellate Court is satisfied, for reasons to be
recorded by it in writing, that the suit or appeal was
over-valued or under-valued, and that the over-
valuation or under-valuation thereof has
prejudicially affected the disposal of the suit or
appeal on its merits.
25[Provided that in suit for accounts the value for
purposes of jurisdiction as determined by the court
at any stage of the trial shall be final and conclusive
and shall not be liable to be contested in appeal or
revision.]
(2) If the objection was taken in the manner
mentioned in clause (a) of sub-section (1), but the
appellate Court is not satisfied as to both the matters
mentioned in clause (b) of that sub-section and has
before it the materials necessary for the
determination of the other grounds of appeal to
itself, it shall dispose of the appeal as if there had
instance or lower appellate Court.
(3) If the objection was taken in that manner and the
appellate Court is satisfied as to both those matters
and has not those materials before it, it shall proceed
to deal with the appeal under the rules applicable to
the court with respect to the hearing of appeals; but
if it remands the suit or appeal, or frames and refers
issues for trial, or requires additional evidence to be
taken, it shall direct its order to a Court competent to
entertain the suit or appeal.
(4) The provisions of this section with respect to an
appellate Court shall, so far as they can be made
applicable, apply to a Court exercising revisional
jurisdiction under section 622 of the Code of Civil
Procedure26 or other enactment for the time being
in force.
Section 9. Determination of value of certain suits
by High Court.
When the subject matter of suits of any class, other
than suits mentioned in the Court-fees Act, 1870
section 7, paragraphs v and vi, and paragraph x,
clause (d), is such that in the opinion of the High
Court it does not admit of being satisfactorily
valued, the High Court may, with the previous
sanction of the 20[Provincial Government], direct
that suits of that class shall, for the purposes of the
Court-fees Act, 187021, and of this Act and any
other enactment for the time being in force, be
treated as if their subject-matter were of such value
as the High Court thinks fit to specify in this behalf.
Section 4. Valuation of relief in certain suits
relating to land not to exceed the value of the
land.
Where a suit mentioned in the Court-fees Act,
187010, section 7,
paragraph iv, or Schedule II, article 17, 11[or 22]
relates to land or an interest in land
of which the value has been determined by rules
under the last foregoing section,
the amount at which for purposes of jurisdiction the
relief sought is valued shall not
exceed the value of the land or interest as determined
by those rules.
(1) “banker” includes a bank and any person
acting as a banker;
 (2) “bill of exchange” means a bill of exchange
as defined by the Negotiable Instruments Act,
1881, and includes also a hundi, and any other
document entitling or purporting to entitle any
person, whether named therein or not, to
payment by any other person of, or to draw
upon any other person for, any sum of money;
(7) “cheque” means a bill of exchange drawn on a
specified banker and not expressed to be
payable otherwise than on demand;
[8][(11) “duly stamped”, means affixation of an
adhesive or impressed stamp or e-stamp of
not less than the requisite amount and that
the stamp has been legally affixed, used or
electronically generated;]
(16) “lease” means a lease of immovable
property, and includes also, ---
(a) a patta;
(b) a kabuliyat or other undertaking in
writing, not being a counter-part of a
lease, to cultivate, occupy or pay or
deliver rent for, immovable property;
(c) any instrument by which tolls of any
description are let;
(d) any writing on an application for a
lease intended to signify that the
application is granted;
(17) “mortgage-deed” includes every instrument
whereby for the purpose of securing money
advanced, or to be advanced, by way of loan,
or an existing or future debt, or the
performance of an engagement, one person
transfers, or creates, to, or in favour of,
another, a right over or in respect of specified
property;
(21) “power-of-attorney” includes any instrument
(not chargeable with a fee under the law
relating to court-fees for the time being in
force) empowering a specified person to
act for and in the name of the person
executing it;
The court fees
Appropriate Government
The [Appropriate Government] may from time to
time make rules for regulating.
Section 5. Procedure in case of difference as to
necessity or amount of fee or taxing officer .
When any difference arises between the officer
whose duty it is to see that any fee is paid under this
Chapter and any suitor or attorney, as to the
necessity of paying a fee or the amount thereof, the
question shall, when the difference arises in any of
the [12][* * *] High Courts, be referred to the taxing-
officer, whose decision thereon shall be final, except
when the question is, in his opinion, one of general
importance, in which case he shall refer it to the final
decision of the Chief Justice of such High Court, or
of such Judge of the High Court as the Chief Justice
shall appoint either generally or specially in this
behalf.
The Chief Justice shall declare who shall be taxing-
officer within the meaning of the first paragraph of
this section.
Section 7 Computation of fees payable in certain
suits. The amount of fee payable under this
Act in the suits next hereinafter mentioned shall be
computed as follows: -
For possession of lands, houses and gardens.
In suits for the possession of land, houses and
gardens
according to the value of the subject-matter; and
such value shall be deemed to be
(a) where the subject-matter is land and where net
profits have arisen from such land during the year
next before the date of presenting the plaint fifteen
times such net profits;
(b) where the subject-matter is land and where no
such profits have arisen therefrom market value of
such land;
(c) Where the subject-matter is a house or garden-
according to the market value of
the house or garden].
Stamp Act
Section 32. Certificate by Collector.
(1) When an instrument brought to the Collector
under section 31, is, in his opinion, one of a
description chargeable with duty, and, ---
(a) the Collector determines that it is already fully
stamped, or
(b) the duty determined by the Collector under
section 31, or such a sum as, with the
duty already paid in respect of the instrument, is
equal to the duty so determined, has been paid, the
Collector shall certify by endorsement on such
instrument that the full duty (stating the amount)
with which it is chargeable has been paid.
(2) When such instrument is, in his opinion, not
chargeable with duty, the Collector shall certify in
manner aforesaid that such instrument is not so
chargeable.
(3) Any instrument upon which an endorsement has
been made under this section, shall be deemed to be
duly stamped or not chargeable with duty, as the
case may be; and, if chargeable with duty, shall be
receivable in evidence or otherwise, and may be
acted upon and registered as if it had been originally
duly stamped:---
Provided that nothing in this section shall authorize
the Collector to endorse, ---
(a) any instrument executed or first executed in
[Pakistan] and brought to him after the expiration of
one month from the date of its execution or first
execution, as the case maybe;
(b) any instrument executed or first executed out of
[Pakistan] and brought to him after the expiration of
three months after it has been first received in
[Pakistan]; or
(c) any instrument chargeable with [a duty not
exceeding twenty-five paisa] or any bill of
exchange or promissory note, when brought to him,
after the drawing or execution thereof, on paper not
duly stamped.
Section 35. Instruments not duly stamped
inadmissible in evidence, etc.
No instrument chargeable
with duty shall be admitted in evidence for any
purpose by any person having by law or consent
of parties’ authority to receive evidence, or shall be
acted upon, registered or authenticated by any such
person or by any public officer, unless such
instrument is duly stamped.
Provided that, ---
(a) any such instrument not being an instrument
chargeable with a duty [not exceeding twenty-five
paisa] only, or a bill of exchange or promissory note,
shall, subject to all just exceptions, be admitted in
evidence on payment of the duty with which the
same is chargeable, or, in the case of an instrument
insufficiently stamped, of the amount required to
make up such duty, together with a penalty of five-
rupees, or, when ten times the amount of the proper
duty or deficient portion thereof exceeds five rupees,
of a sum equal to ten times such duty or portion;
(b) where any person from whom a stamped receipt
could have been demanded, has given an unstamped
receipt and such receipt, if stamped, would be
admissible in evidence against him, then such
receipt shall be admitted in evidence against him on
payment of a penalty of one rupee by the person
tendering it;
(c) where a contract or agreement of any kind is
affected by correspondence consisting of two or
more letters, and any one of the letters bears the
proper stamp, the contractor agreement shall be
deemed to be duly stamped;
(d) nothing herein contained shall prevent the
admission of any instrument in evidence in any
proceeding in a Criminal Court, other than a
proceeding under Chapter XII or Chapter XXXVI of
the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898;
(e) nothing herein contained shall prevent the
admission of any instrument in any Court when such
instrument has been executed by or on behalf of [the
Government], or where it bears the certificate of the
Collector as provided by section 32 or any other
provision of this Act.
Section 33. Examination and impounding of
instruments. – (1) Every person having by law or
consent of parties authority to receive evidence, and
every person in charge of a public office, except an
officer of police, before whom any instrument,
chargeable in his opinion, with duty,
is produced or comes in the performance of his
functions, shall, if it appears to him that such
instrument is not duly stamped, impound the same.
(2) For that purpose every such person shall
examine every instrument so chargeable and so produced
or coming before him, in order to ascertain whether it is
stamped with a stamp of the value and description
required by the law in force in [99][Pakistan] when such
instrument was executed or first executed:---
Provided that,---
 (a) nothing herein contained shall be deemed to
require any Magistrate or Judge of a
Criminal Court to examine or impound, if he
does not think fit so to do, any instrument
coming before him in the course of any
proceeding other than a proceeding under
Chapter XII or Chapter XXXVI of the Code
of Criminal Procedure, 1898[100];
(b) in the case of a Judge of a High Court, the
duty of examining and impounding any
instrument under this section may be
delegated to such officer as the Court
appoints in this behalf.
(3) For the purposes of this section, in cases of
doubt, ---
(a) [101][the
Provincial Government] may
determine[102] what offices shall be
deemed to be public offices; and
[103][the
(b) Provincial Government] may
determine who shall be deemed to be
persons in charge of public offices.
Section 10. Duties how to be paid.– (1) Except as
otherwise expressly provided in this Act, all duties with
which any instruments are chargeable shall be paid, and
such payment shall be indicated on such instruments, by
means of stamps [50][or e-stamps]–
(a) according to the provisions herein
contained, or
(b) when no such provision is applicable
thereto, as the [51][Provincial Government]
may by rules direct.
(2) The rules[52] made under sub-section (1)
may, among other matters, regulate,–--
(a) in the case of each kind of instrument–
the description of stamps [53][or e-
stamps] which may be used;
(b) in the case of instruments stamped with
impressed stamps–the number of stamps
which may be used;
(c) in the case of bills of exchange or
promissory notes written in any Oriental
language–the size of the paper on which
they are written.
Section 11. Use of adhesive stamps.
The following instruments may be stamped with
adhesive
stamps, namely:---
(a) instruments chargeable with [a duty not
exceeding twenty-five paisa], except
parts of bills of exchange payable otherwise than on
demand and drawn in sets;
(b) bills of exchange, [* * *] and promissory notes
drawn or made out
of [Pakistan];
(c) entry as an advocate, vakil or attorney on the roll
of a High Court;
(d) notarial acts; and
(e) transfers by endorsement of shares in any
incorporated company or other body
corporate.
Section 12. Cancellation of adhesive stamps.
(1) (a) Whoever affixes any adhesive stamp to any
instrument chargeable with duty which has been
executed by any person shall, when affixing such
stamp, cancel the same so that it cannot be used
again; and
(b) whoever executes any instrument on any paper
bearing an adhesive stamp shall, at the time of
execution, unless such stamp has been already
cancelled in manner aforesaid, cancel the same so
that it cannot be used again.
(2) Any instrument bearing an adhesive stamp which
has not been cancelled so that it
(3) The person required by sub-section (1) to cancel
an adhesive stamp may cancel it by writing on or
across the stamp his name or initials or the name or
initials of his firm with the true date of his so writing,
or in any other effectual manner.
cannot be used again, shall, so far as such stamp is
concerned, be deemed to be unstamped.
Section 24. How transfer in consideration of debt,
or subject to future payment, etc., to be
charged.
Where any property is transferred to any person in
consideration, wholly or in
part, of any debt due to him, or subject either
certainly or contingently to the payment or transfer
of any money or stock, whether being or constituting
a charge or encumbrance upon the property or not,
such debt, money or stock is to be deemed the whole
or part, as the case may be, of the consideration in
respect whereof the transfer is chargeable with ad
valorem duty:---
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to
any such certificate of sale as is mentioned in Article
No. 18 of Schedule I.
Explanation In the case of a sale of property subject
to a mortgage or other
encumbrance, any unpaid mortgage-money or
money charged, together with the interest (if any)
due on the same, shall be deemed to be part of the
consideration for the sale: ---
Provided that, where property subject to a mortgage
is transferred to the mortgagee, he shall be entitled
to deduct from the duty payable on the transfer the
amount of any duty already paid in respect of the
mortgage.
Illustrations
(1) A owes B Rs. 1,000. A sells a property to B, the
consideration being Rs.500 and the release of the
previous debt of Rs.1,000 Stamp-duty is payable on
Rs.1,500.
Arbitration Act
Section 25. Power of arbitrators to make an
interim award:
(1) Unless a different intention appears in the
arbitration agreement, the
arbitrators or umpire, may, if they think fit, make an
interim award.
2. All references in this Act to an award shall include
reference to an interim
award made under sub-section (1).
Section 26. Power to Court only to enlarge time
for making award:
(1) The Court may, if it thinks fit, whether the time
for making the award has
expired or not and whether the award has been made
or not, enlarge from time
to time the time for making the award.
(2) Any provision in an arbitration agreement
whereby the arbitrators or umpire
may, except with the consent of all the parties to the
agreement, enlarge the
time for making the award, shall be void and of no
effect.
27. Interest on awards: Where and in so far as an
award is for the payment of
money the Court may in the decree order interest,
from the date of the decree
at such rate as the Court deems reasonable, to be paid
on the principal sum as
adjudged by the award and confirmed by the decree.
Section 8. Provision as to appointment of three or
more arbitrators:
(1) Where an arbitration agreement provides that a
reference shall be to three
arbitrators, one to be appointed by each party and the
third by the two
appointed arbitrators, the agreement shall have
effect as if it provided for the
appointment of an umpire, and not for the
appointment of a third arbitrator, by
the two arbitrators appointed by the parties.
(2) Where an arbitration agreement provides that a
reference shall be to three
arbitrators to be appointed otherwise than as
mentioned in sub-section
(1), the award of the majority shall, unless the
arbitration agreement otherwise
provides, prevail.
(3) Where an arbitration agreement provides for the
appointment of more
arbitrators than three, the award of the majority, or
if the arbitrators are
equally divided in their opinions, the award of the
umpire shall, unless the
arbitration agreement otherwise provides, prevail.
Section 6 Power of Court to appoint arbitrator or
umpire:
(1) In any of the following cases –
(a) where an arbitration agreement provides that the
reference shall be to one or more arbitrators to be
appointed by consent of the parties, and all the
parties do not, after differences have arisen, concur
in the appointment or appointments; or
(b) if any appointed arbitrator or umpire neglects or
refuses to act, or is incapable of acting, or dies, and
the arbitration agreement does not show that it was
intended that the vacancy should not be supplied,
and the parties or the arbitrators, as the case may be,
do not supply the vacancy; or
 (c) where the parties or the arbitrators are required
to appoint an umpire and do not appoint him; any
party may serve the other parties or the arbitrators,
as the case may be, with a written notice to concur
in the appointment or appointments or in supplying
the vacancy.
2) If the appointment is not made within fifteen clear
days after the service of the said notice, the Court
may, on the application of the party who gave the
notice and after giving the other parties an
opportunity of being heard, appoint an arbitrator or
arbitrators or umpire, as the case may be, who shall
have like power to act in the reference and to make
an award as if he or they had been appointed by
consent of all parties.
Section 9 Power to Court to remove arbitrators
or umpire in certain circumstances:
(1) The Court may, on the application of any party
to a reference, remove an arbitrator or umpire who
fails to use all reasonable dispatch in entering on and
proceeding with the reference and making an award.
(2) The Court may remove an arbitrator or umpire
who has misconducted himself or the proceedings.
(3) Where an arbitrator or the umpire is removed
under this section, he shall not be entitled to receive
any remuneration in respect of his services. (4) For
the purposes of this section the expression
“proceeding with the reference “includes, in a case
where reference to the umpire becomes necessary,
giving notice of that fact to the parties and to the
umpire.
Section 10. Power of Court where arbitrator is
removed or his authority revoked:
(1) Where the Court removes an umpire who has not
entered on the reference or one or more arbitrators
(not being all the arbitrators), the Court may, on the
application of any party to the arbitration agreement,
appoint persons to fill the vacancies.
(2) Where the authority of an arbitrator or arbitrators
or an umpire is revoked by leave of the Court or
where the Court removes an umpire who has entered
on the reference or a sole arbitrator or all the
arbitrators, the Court may, on the application of any
party to the arbitration agreement, either –(a)
appoint a person to act as sole arbitrator in the place
of the person or persons displaced,
(b)order that the arbitration agreement shall cease to
have effect with respect to the difference referred.
(3) A person appointed under this section as an
arbitrator or umpire shall have the like power to act
in the reference and to make an award as if he had
been appointed in accordance with the arbitration
agreement.
Section 11. Powers of arbitrator:
The arbitrators or umpire shall, unless a different
intention is expressed in agreement,
have power to
(a) administer oath to the parties and witnesses
appearing;
(b) state a special case for the opinion of the Court
on any question of law involved, or state the award,
wholly or in part, in the form of a special case of
such question for the opinion of the Court;
c) make the award conditional or in the alternative;
(d) correct in an award any clerical mistake or error
arising from any accidental slip or omission;
(e) administer to any party to arbitration such
interrogatories as may, in the opinion of the
arbitrators or umpire, be necessary.
Section 12. Award to be signed and filed:
(1) When the arbitrators or umpire have made their
award, they shall sign it and shall give notice in
writing to the parties of the making and signing
thereof and of the amount of fees and charges
payable in respect of the arbitration and award.
(2) The arbitrators or umpire shall, at the request of
any party to the arbitration agreement or any person
claiming under such party or if so directed by the
Court and upon payment of the fees and charges due
in respect of the arbitration and award and of the
costs and charges of filing the award, cause the
award or a signed copy of it, together with any
depositions and documents which may have been
taken and proved before them, to be filed in the
Court, and the Court shall thereupon give notice to
the parties of the filing of the award.
(3) Where the arbitrators or umpire state a special
case under clause (b) of Section13, the Court, after
giving notice to the parties and hearing them, shall
pronounce its opinion thereon and such opinion shall
be added to, and shall form part of, the award.
Section 13. Power of Court to modify award:
The Court may by order modify or correct an award
(a)Where it appears that a part of the award is upon
a matter not referred to arbitration and such part can
be separated from the other part and does not affect
the decision on the matter referred; or
(b) Where the award is imperfect in form, or
contains any obvious error which can be amended
without affecting such decision; or
(c) Where the award contains a clerical mistake or
an error arising from an accidental slip or omission.
Section 14. Power to remit award:
(1) The Court may from time to time remit the award
or any matter referred to arbitration to the arbitrators
or umpire for reconsideration upon such terms as it
thinks fit
(a) where the award has left undetermined any of the
matters referred to arbitration, or where it
determines any matter not referred to arbitration, and
such matters cannot be separated without affecting
the determination of the matters referred; or
(b) where the award is so indefinite as to be
incapable of execution; or
(c) where an objection to the legality of the award is
apparent upon the fact of it.
(2) Where an award is remitted under sub-section (1)
the Court shall fix the time within which the
arbitrator or umpire shall submit his decision to the
court:
Provided that any time so fixed may be extended by
subsequent order of the Court.
(3) An award remitted under sub-section (1) shall
become void on the failure of the arbitrator or
umpire to reconsider it and submit his decision
within the time fixed.
Majority Act
Section 4. Age of majority how computed. In
computing the age of any person, the day on which
he was born is to be included as a whole day, and he
shall be deemed to have attained majority, if he falls
within the first paragraph of Section 3, at the
beginning of the twenty-first anniversary of that day,
and if he halls within the second paragraph of
Section 3, at the beginning of the eighteenth
anniversary of that day.
Illustrations
(a) Z is born in Pakistan on the first day of January,
1949 and has a Pakistani domicile. A guardian of his
person is appointed by a Court of Justice, Z attains
majority at the first moment on the first day of
January, 1970.
(b) Z is born in Pakistan on the twenty-ninth day of
February, 1948, and has a Pakistani domicile. A
guardian of his property is appointed by a Court of
Justice. Z attains majority at the first moment of the
twenty-eight day of February, 1970.
(c) Z is born on the first day of January, 1941. He
acquires a domicile in Pakistan. No guardian is
appointed of his person or property by any Court of
Justice, nor is he under the jurisdiction of any Court
of Wards. Z attains majority at the first moment of
the first day of January, 1960.
SECTION 3 Age of majority of persons
domiciled in Pakistan.---Subject as aforesaid,
[every minor of whose person or property, or both a
guardian, other than a guardian for a suit within the
meaning of [Order 32 of the First Schedule of the
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (V of 1908) has been
or shall be appointed or declared by any Court of
Justice before the minor has attained the age of
eighteen years, and every minor of whose property
the superintendence has been or shall be assumed by
any Court of Wards before the minor has attained
that age] shall, notwithstanding anything contained
in the that age shall, notwithstanding anything
contained in the [Succession Act, 1925 (XXXIX of
1925)] or in any other enactment, his majority when
he shall have completed his age of twenty-one years
and not before.
Sindh rent act
Landlord not to interfere with amenities enjoyed
by the tenant.
� (1) No landlord or his contractor, workman, or
servant shall, without the previous consent of the
Controller or save for the purpose of effecting
repairs or complying with a requisition from a
Municipal Committee or Cantonment or Town
Improvement Board, wilfully disturb any
convenience or easement annexed to the premises or
remove, destroy or render unserviceable anything
provided for permanent use therewith or discontinue
or cause to be discontinued any supply or service
comprised in the fair rent.
(2) � A tenant in occupation of a building or rented
land may, if the landlord has contravened the
provisions of this section, make an application to the
Controller complaining of such contravention.
(3) � If the Controller, on inquiry, finds that the
tenant has been in enjoyment of the amenities and
that they were cut off or withheld by the landlord
without just or sufficient cause, he shall make an
order directing the landlord to restore such
amenities.
Eviction of tenants where the landlord is a salaried
employee, widow or minor orphan.
� (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this
Ordinance or any other law for the time being in force.
(a)� in a case where the landlord has died; or
(b)� in a case where the landlord is a salaried
employee and has retired or is due to
retire within a period of six months;
a notice in writing may be given by such landlord or
the widow or minor of the deceased landlord as the
case may be, to the tenant of a residential building
informing him that he or she needs the building for
personal use and requiring him to deliver vacant
possession of the building within a period of two
months from the date of receipt of the notice:
� Provided that no application under this section
shall be maintainable if it is made after six months
from the date of the death of the landlord or, in the
case of the retirement of a salaried person, before six
months from or after six months of the date of his
retirement:
� Provided further that, in a case where the landlord
has died or a salaried person has retired before the
commencement of this Ordinance[40] an application
may be made within a period of six months from the
date of such commencement.
(2) � The right to seek ejectment under sub-section
(1) shall also be available to a landlord of a residential
building who is the wife, husband or a minor child of
a salaried employee referred to in sub-section (1).
(4) � A landlord referred to in clause (b)of sub-
section (1) or in sub-section (2) who is in occupation
of a residential building owned by him shall not be
entitled to seek ejectment of a tenant from a
residential building situated in the locality in which
the building in occupation of the landlord is situated
unless he offers the building in his occupation in
exchange of the building in possession of the tenant
on such terms and conditions and on payment of
such rent as may be determined by the Controller:
�Provided that the benefit of exchange shall not be
available to the tenant who refuses to accept the offer
or the terms and conditions and the rate of rent
determined by the Controller.
(5)� A tenant who on receipt of the notice referred
to in sub-section (1) fails to deliver vacant
possession of the building to the landlord or to the
widow or minor orphan of the deceased landlord
within the time allowed in the notice shall be liable
to be ejected summarily by the Controller on an
application being made to him in this behalf.
(6) � On an application being made to him under
sub-section (5) the Controller shall issue a notice to
the tenant and on being satisfied with the bona
fide of the request of the landlord or the widow or
minor orphan of a deceased landlord, shall order the
summary ejectment of the tenant.
(7) � A landlord or a widow or orphan of a deceased
landlord referred to in sub-section (1) or sub-section
(2) who, within one year of his having obtained
possession of a building as provided for in sub-
section (6), relets the building to any person other
than the previous tenant, shall be punishable with
fine which may extend to Rs.5,000 unless the benefit
derived by the landlord is greater than the amount of
fine in which case it shall be equal to the annual rent
obtained by him by reletting the building.]

(3) � In the case of a landlord referred to in sub-

section (1) or sub-section (2) who happens to be a
landlord of more than one residential building,
whether or not in the same locality, action as
provided for in this section shall be competent in
respect of one of such residential buildings only.