law: Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999 
  27. State Government or Government allotted to
  
  become tenant of premises requisitioned or continued under requisition. 
  (1) On the 7th December, 1996, that is the
  
  date of coming into force of the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging Houses Rates
  
  Control, Bombay Land Requisition and Bombay Government Premises (Eviction)
  
  (Amendment) Act, 1996 (hereinafter in this section referred to as "the
  
  said date"),
  (a) the State
  
  Government, in respect of the premises requisitioned or continued under
  
  requisition and allotted to a Government allotted referred to in sub-clause (a)
  
  of clause (2) of section 7; and
  (b) the Government
  
  allotted, in respect of the premises requisitioned or continued under
  
  requisition and allotted to him as referred to in sub-clause (b) of clause (2)
  
  of section 7, shall, notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, or in the
  
  Bombay Land Requisition Act, 1948, or in any other law for the time being in
  
  force, or in any contract, or in any judgment, decree or order of any court
  
  passed on or after the 11th June, 1996, or in any order of eviction issued by
  
  the Competent Authority, or by the Appellate Authority, under the Bombay Land
  
  Requisition Act, 1948, be deemed to have become, for the purposes of this Act,
  
  the tenant of the landlord; and such premises shall be deemed to have been let
  
  by the landlord to the State Government or, as the case may be, to such
  
  Government allotted, on payment of rent and permitted increases equal to the
  
  amount of compensation payable in respect of the premises immediately before
  
  the said date.
  (2) Save as otherwise provided in this section
  
  or any other provision of this Act, nothing in this section shall affect,-
  (a) the rights of the
  
  landlord including his right to recover possession of the premises from such
  
  tenant on any of the grounds mentioned in section 16 or in any other section;
  (b) the right of the
  
  landlord or such tenant to apply to the court for the fixation of standard rent
  
  and permitted increases under this Act, by reason only of the fact that the
  
  amount of the rent and permitted increases, if any, to be paid by such tenant
  
  to the landlord is determined under sub-section (1);
  (c) the operation and
  
  the application of the other relevant provisions of this Act in respect of such
  
  tenancy.