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  • September 16, 2022

All we need to know about Model Tenancy Act:

This law is likely to give a boost to rental housing in India and was first proposed in 2019.

The union cabinet, on June 2, 2021, approved the draft model tenancy law, in a move that is likely to revive India’s rental housing market by changing a multitude of reforms.

Let us study how the Model Tenancy Act 2019 aims to fix the problems so that the demand-supply gap is bridged.

Key Features of Model Tenancy Act(MTA)-2019:

The Act has put in place several measures, by way of tightening regulations and making it lucrative for landlords and tenants, to boost rental housing.

  • On the lines of the Real Estate Regulatory Authorities that have been set up under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016, states could set up rent authorities in cities.
  • After its establishment, landlords and tenants would have to be present before the authority to get the rent agreement registered.
  • In this regards the authority would set up a website, to maintain all the data it receives in the form of rent agreements.

  • In case of any disputes, the disputing parties would first approach the rent authority for a solution. In case the disputing parties are not satisfied with the order of the rent authority, they could approach the rent court/tribunal to seek relief. These courts would have to pass an order within 60 days of receiving a complaint.
  • After the rent courts are set up, civil courts have no jurisdiction over disputes pertaining to rental housing.
  • ‘Only the rent court and no civil court, shall have jurisdiction, except the jurisdiction of the rent authority under Section 30, to hear and decide the applications relating to disputes between landlord and tenant’, states the Act.

Model Tenancy Laws:

1. Provisions that could help landlords

The policy states that tenants would be liable to pay the landlords double the rent for first two months and four times the rent in the consequent months, in case they stay after the expiry of the rental agreement

Under the model policy, landlords could approach the rent court asking for eviction, if the tenants fail to pay the rent for two months in a row.

Without prior permission of the landlord, the tenant is not eligible to sub-let whole or part of the rented accommodation.

2. Provisions that could help tenants

That landlords march into one’s premises as and when they want, is a common complaint among those living in rented homes. To stop this from happening, the policy states that landlords need to give written notice, 24 hours in advance, to visit the premises. Also, they cannot visit the premises before 7 am and after 8 pm.

In cities like Mumbai and Bengaluru, tenants have to pay at least a year’s rent, as a security deposit. Landlords in states that adopt the policy would not be able to ask for more than two months of rent, as a security deposit.

During the entire rental agreement period, landlords cannot hike the rent, unless something giving them the right to do has been clearly mentioned in the rental agreement. The landlord will have to give three months’ notice to the tenant, before increasing the rent.

While the policy states that both parties will be responsible to maintain the physical health of the rented property, the responsibility of structural maintenance will lie on the landlord.

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