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Section 33. Cognizance of offence

THE UTTAR PRADESH URBAN BUILDINGS (REGULATION OF LETTING, RENT AND EVICTION) ACT, 1972

Act no. 13 of 19721972Repealed 1 January 2023Uttarakhand (State Act)

This Act was repealed on 1 January 2023 by the Uttarakhand Tenancy Act, 2021 (Uttarakhand Act 2 of 2022), s.47(1), which repeals the State Rent Control Act in force immediately before its commencement; it may still apply to matters that began before then.

33- (1) No prosecution for an offence punishable under this act shall be instituted except on a complaint authorized by the District Magistrate: Provided that where the District Magistrate has improperly or illegally declined to authorize the making of a complaint, the Commissioner may, of his own motion or on application made in this behalf, direct him so to do. (2) No court inferior to that of a magistrate of the first class shall try any such offence.