Increase in rent on account of payment of increased rate, etc. after 31st March, 1949 not permitted in certain areas

Not withstanding anything contained in section 10,- (1) if in any area specified in Schedule III to this Act a rate or tax on buildings, houses or lands or a rate or tax in the form of such rate or tax on buildings, houses or lands levied under the Bombay Municipal Boroughs Act, 1925, or the Bombay District Municipal Act, 1901 or the Cantonments Act, 1924 or the Bombay Village Panchayats Act, 1933, as the case may be. is increased after the 31st day of March, 1949 a landlord shall not, in respect of any premises situated in any of the areas specified in the said Schedule and let on or before the said date, be entitled to make any further increase in the rent of the said premises on account of the payment by him of such increase in the rate or tax; (3) The State Government may by notification publised in the Official Gazette direct that in any area other than those specified in Schedule III, a landlord shall not be entitled to make any increase in rent in respect of any premises situate in such area on account of the payment by him of an increase in the rate or tax imposed or levied by any local authority for its own purpose on buildings, houses or lands after such date, as may be specified in the notification; (4) if the general tax levied under section 129 of the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949 in respect of any premises in any city exceeds the amount paid by any landlord to any local authority on account of a rate or tax on buildings, houses or lands in respect of such premises for the assessment period which included the 31st March 1949, there shall be deemed to be an increase in such rate or tax for the purpose of this section.