law: Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 
  30. Application of the Chapter. -
  The Provisions of this Chapter shall apply to
  
  all hotels and lodging houses in the areas which, immediately before the 7th
  
  day of April, 1958, were included in the New Delhi Municipal Committee, Municipal
  
  Committee, Delhi and the Notified Area Committee, Civil Station, Delhi and may
  
  be applied by the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette,
  
  to hotels and lodging houses within the limits of such other urban are of the
  
  Municipal Corporation of Delhi as may be specified in the notification:
  Provided that if the Central Government is of
  
  opinion that it would not be desirable in the public interest to make the
  
  provisions of this Chapter applicable to any class of hotels or lodging houses,
  
  it may, by notification in the Official Gazette, exempt such class of hotels or
  
  lodging houses or lodging houses from the operation of this Chapter.