A tenant's written notice of giving up possession under the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021

A tenant of premises the Act applies to may give up possession on giving the written notice the tenancy agreement requires, and, where the agreement says nothing about notice, on the minimum notice the Act fixes. The Act states that, and separately states that the security deposit is refunded on the day vacant possession is taken over. What the notice contains beyond being in writing is not prescribed by the section.

What such a document contains

Written notice as the agreement requires, or the minimum the Act fixes
A tenant may give up possession of the premises on giving such written notice as the tenancy agreement requires; where the agreement has no stipulation about notice, notice to the landlord of at least the period the section fixes before giving up possessionSection 29, Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021 (U.P. Act 16 of 2021)
Naming the premises and the date possession is given up
The section requires the notice to be written and says nothing of its contents; such notices name the premises, the date possession is to be given up and the deposit to be refundedConvention rather than law

This document is under Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021 (U.P. Act 16 of 2021), which is the Act in force in Uttar Pradesh. A tenancy in another State is under that State's own Act.

The periods that attach to it

  • Where the tenancy agreement makes no stipulation about notice, at least one month's notice to the landlord before giving up possession of the premises — Section 29, Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021 (U.P. Act 16 of 2021)
  • The security deposit is refunded to the tenant on the date vacant possession of the premises is taken over from the tenant, after due deduction of any liability of the tenant — Section 11(2), Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021 (U.P. Act 16 of 2021)

Not established

  • The Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021 applies to the areas it names or the State Government notifies, and not to every premises inside them — it exempts the classes its own sections and notifications exempt. Whether a particular premises is inside the Act is not established here; outside it, the general law of leases in the Transfer of Property Act governs the notice and the ending of the tenancy instead.

What this guide is not

Of the points listed below, one are fixed by the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021 (U.P. Act 16 of 2021) itself and one are convention — such documents carry them, and no provision read for this section requires them. This is a description of a kind of document and not a document — confirm the contents of any document in a particular matter with an advocate.

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