Lock-In Breach Compensation Notice

स्टाम्प ड्यूटी

No stamp duty in either Punjab or the Union Territory of Chandigarh — a notice of this kind creates or transfers no interest in the Premises and asserts a claim rather than an instrument, so it is not a chargeable document under the Stamp Act; plain paper or an advocate's letterhead is enough, and no e-stamp exists for it. Duty falls instead on whatever document eventually settles the claim. A simple receipt for payment needs no duty. A separate settlement or surrender deed, or a deed recording that the Security Deposit is applied in full discharge of the claim, is chargeable in its own right, at whatever rate its own description carries in the Punjab or the Chandigarh stamp schedule — check it when that document is drawn, not against this notice.

रजिस्ट्री

Not registrable in either jurisdiction — nothing is created, declared, assigned, limited or extinguished by this notice alone, so it falls outside Section 17 of the Registration Act, 1908 and no presentation window runs against it. Where the Lease itself was compulsorily registrable — a lease from year to year, for a term exceeding one year, or reserving a yearly rent, under Section 107 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 and Section 17(1)(d) of the Registration Act, 1908 — and was registered, the register continues to show it as subsisting until a registered instrument closes it. This notice does not clear that record at the Sub-Registrar of the tehsil in Punjab or the Sub-Registrar, Union Territory of Chandigarh; only a deed of surrender, cancellation or settlement, itself registered, does that.

नोटरी

Not required in either jurisdiction — this notice's force comes from being in writing, signed on behalf of the Landlord, and provably delivered, not from being sworn or attested. What actually matters is proof of service: keep the postal receipt and the acknowledgement card, the courier's proof of delivery, or a signed acknowledgement of personal tender. A notarised notice with nothing to show it reached the Tenant is worth less than a plain one with a signed receipt attached.

गवाह

None required by law in either jurisdiction for a notice of this kind — a signature by or on behalf of the Landlord is enough. Where the Landlord is more than one person, every co-owner who is a Lessor under the Lease should sign, or the signing co-owner should say expressly that they sign for the others and name them; a notice given by one Lessor about a Lease granted by several invites the answer that the others were content to let the Tenant go on the terms it took. Where personal tender is chosen as the method of service and the Tenant declines to acknowledge receipt, a witness who is not a party to the Lease — noting the date, time and what was tendered — turns a disputed delivery into a provable one.