TENANT REPLY TO AN EVICTION NOTICE
Date: __________.
Landlord named in the notice: __________, of __________.
Tenant: __________, of __________. Recipient/respondent: __________.
Premises: __________, identified as __________. Jurisdiction selection: __________.
Letting date: __________. Rent-law track recorded by the parties: __________. Tenancy record: __________. Term basis: __________.
Permitted use when let: __________. Current monthly rent: __________, payable by day __________ of each month.
Service method: __________ at __________.
- NOTICE ANSWERED
The Tenant replies to the Landlord’s notice dated __________, reference __________. This reply is served on __________.
Overall position: __________.
- FACTS ADMITTED
The Tenant admits only the following facts: __________. No other allegation is admitted merely because this reply does not reproduce every sentence of the Landlord’s notice.
- ALLEGATIONS DENIED
The Tenant denies the following material allegations for the reasons stated: __________.
- RENT-ACT POSITION
The letting date is __________ and the recorded track is __________. The Tenant says any statutory eviction must be sought and proved before the competent Rent Controller or Rent Authority under the Act applicable to that track.
- SECTION 106 POINT
If the Landlord relies on section 106 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, the Tenant reserves every objection concerning tenancy basis, calculation and service. A section 106 notice is not itself an eviction order where statutory rent protection applies.
- LEGAL OBJECTIONS
The Tenant’s legal objections are: __________.
- RENT AND PERFORMANCE
The Tenant will continue to deal with rent and lawful charges in accordance with the tenancy, the applicable Rent Act and any forum order. The Tenant does not treat the dispute as permission to withhold admitted rent without lawful basis.
- DOCUMENTS
Documents relied upon: __________. The Tenant requests that any future proceeding be decided on original/verified records rather than assumptions in correspondence.
- ACCESS AND POSSESSION
Until possession is voluntarily delivered or lawfully recovered, the Tenant objects to lockout, utility disconnection or physical interference outside the legal process.
- NEGOTIATION WITHOUT ADMISSION
Any discussion of settlement, time to vacate or revised terms after this reply is without admission unless a signed settlement expressly states otherwise.
- RESERVATION
The Tenant reserves all statutory and contractual defences available on the actual facts, including objections arising from the landlord’s title status, statutory ground, limitation, service, waiver or forum procedure where legally relevant.
LEGAL BASIS
Punjab: Section 106 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 supplies 15 days for a monthly lease and six months for a yearly lease where it governs contractual termination. Statutory eviction in the saved 1949 Act track is under section 13 of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949; for a post-30 November 2013 Punjab letting it is under section 20 of the Punjab Rent Act, 1995. The deciding office is the Rent Authority for a letting on or after 30 November 2013 and the Rent Controller for the saved pre-commencement 1949 Act track. Filing/court fee: not confirmed. Statutory decision or notice time limit: A private reply has no statutory decision period; any filed Punjab Rent Authority case follows the applicable Act procedure.. For a post-30 November 2013 Punjab Rent Act matter, an appeal from a Rent Authority order lies to the Appellate Authority under section 50(3) within 30 days; for the saved 1949 Act track, the appeal route is section 15 and the appeal time limit is not confirmed.
Chandigarh: Section 106 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 governs contractual notice where applicable; statutory eviction is under section 13 of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 and requires a Rent Controller order. The deciding office for rent-control relief is the Rent Controller. For Chandigarh sector property, the property record is the Estate Office file; there is no jamabandi, fard or mutation for ordinary sector property. Filing/court fee: not confirmed. Statutory decision or notice time limit: A private reply has no statutory decision period; any Controller case time is not confirmed.. An appeal from the Rent Controller lies under section 15 of the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949; the appeal time limit is not confirmed.
PERSONAL DATA NOTICE
This notice is given under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
The purpose of collecting the personal data in this Tenant Reply to an Eviction Notice is to record the tenant’s response to the eviction notice, admissions and denials, legal objections, rent position and documents relied upon.
The record will be held by __________ and may be shared with the tenant, landlord, property manager, advocate, Rent Authority or Rent Controller, Appellate Authority and any court handling the tenancy dispute.
If the matter does not proceed, the personal data will be retained for 90 days and then erased. If the matter proceeds, the record will be retained for the transaction or authority matter plus 12 months, except where a statute requires a longer named retention period.
A person named in this document may request correction or erasure where the purpose has ended, withdraw consent for future consent-based processing, or raise a grievance by writing to __________. The record-holder should acknowledge and reply within 30 days.
Data minimisation: this document does not collect a full Aadhaar number, an Aadhaar-card copy, a password or bank credentials.
Personal-data instruction: __________.
SIGNATURE
Tenant / Sender: __________