Summary dispossession

(8) (a) Any officer empowered by the Government in this behalf may summarily dispossess- (i) any landlord, tenant or other person occupying any building in contravention of the provisions of this section or any landlord who fails to deliver to the Government possession of any building in respect of which they are deemed to be the tenant by virtue of this section, or (ii) any officer, local authority or public institution continuing to occupy, or failing to deliver possession of, any building in respect of which the Government are deemed to be the tenant by virtue of this section, after the termination of his or its licence to occupy such building, and take possession of the building including any portion thereof which may have been sub-let. Explanation.- The provisions of this clause shall apply also to cases which, arose before the date of the commencement of this Act. (b) If free access to the building is not afforded to the officer empowered under clause (a) he may after giving reasonable warning and facility to withdraw to any woman not appearing in public according to the customs of the country remove or open any lock or bolt or break open any door or do any other act necessary for effecting such dispossession. (c) Any landlord, tenant or other person or any officer, local authority or public institution, liable to be summarily dispossessed under clause (a), shall pay to the Goverment- (i) the fair rent payable for the building under the provisions of this Act for the period of his or its occupation or possession thereof as described in that clause; and (ii) the expenses, if any, incurred by the Government in effecting such summary dispossession, as determined by them. (1) Every tenant who makes a payment on account of rent or advance shall be entitled to obtain a receipt for the amount paid duly signed by the landlord or his authorised agent. (2) Where a landlord refuses to accept, or evades the receipt of, any rent lawfully payable to him by a, tenant in respect of any building, the tenant may, by notice in writing, require the landlord to specify within ten days from the date of receipt of the notice by him, a bank into which the rent may be deposited by the tenant to the credit of the landlord: Provided that such bank shall be one situated in the city, town or village in which the building is situated or if there is no such bank in such city, town or village within three miles of the limits thereof. Explanation.- It shall be open to the landlord to specify from time to time by a written notice to the tenant and subject to the proviso aforesaid, a bank different from the one already specified by him under this sub-section. (3) If the landlord specifies a bank as aforesaid the tenant shall deposit the rent in the bank and shall continue to deposit in it any rent which may subsequently become due in respect of the building. (4) If the landlord does not specify a bank as aforesaid, the tenant shall remit the rent to the landlord by money order, after deducting the money order commission and continue to remit any rent which may subsequently become due in respect of the building in the same manner until the landlord signifies by a written notice to the tenant his willingness to accept the rent or specifies a bank in which the rent shall be deposited in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (2). (5) If the landlord refuses to receive the rent remitted by money order under sub-section (4), the tenant may deposit the rent before such authority and in such manner as may be prescribed, and continue to deposit any rent which may subsequently become due in respect of the building, before the same authority and in the same manner; and the amount deposited may, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, be withdrawn by the person held by the controller, to be entitled to the amount on application made by such person to the controller in that behalf.