law: Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999 
  7. Definitions. 
  In this Act, unless there is anything
  
  repugnant to the subject or context,-
  (1) "Competent Authority" means the
  
  competent authority appointed under section 40;
  (2) "Government allotted",-
  (a) in relation to any
  
  premises requisitioned or continued under requisition which are allotted by the
  
  State Government for any non-residential purpose to any Department or office of
  
  the State Government or Central Government or any public sector undertaking or
  
  corporation owned or controlled fully or partly by the State Government or any
  
  Co-operative Society registered under the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies
  
  Act, 1960 or any foreign consulate, by whatever name called, and on the 7th
  
  December, 1996, being the date of coming into force of the Bombay Rents, Hotel
  
  and Lodging House Rates Control, Bombay Land Requisition and Bombay Government
  
  Premises (Eviction) (Amendment) Act, 1996, were in their occupation or
  
  possession, means the principal officer-in-charge of such office or department
  
  or public sector undertaking or corporation or society or consulate; and
  (b) in relation to any
  
  premises requisitioned or continued under requisition which were allotted by
  
  the State Government for residential purpose to any person and on the 7th
  
  December, 1996, being the date of coming into force of the Bombay Rents, Hotel
  
  and Lodging House Rates Control, Bombay Land Requisition and Bombay Government
  
  Premises (Eviction) (Amendment) Act, 1996, such person or his legal heir was in
  
  occupation or possession of such premises for his or such legal heir's own
  
  residence, means such person or legal heir;
  (3) "Landlord" means any person who
  
  is for the time being, receiving, or entitled to receive, rent in respect of
  
  any premises whether on his own account or on account, or on behalf, or for the
  
  benefit of, any other person or as a trustee, guardian, or receiver for any
  
  other person or who would so receive the rent or be entitled to receive the
  
  rent if the premises were let to a tenant; and also includes any person not
  
  being a tenant who from time to time derives title under a landlord, and
  
  further includes in respect of his sub-tenant, a tenant who has sub-let any
  
  premises; and also includes, in respect of a licensee deemed to be a tenant
  
  under the provisions of the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control
  
  Act, 1947, the licensor who has given premises on license and in respect of the
  
  State Government or as the case may be, the Government allotted referred to in
  
  sub-clause (b) of clause (2) deemed to be a tenant by section 27, the person
  
  who was entitled to receive the rent if the premises were let to a tenant
  
  immediately before the 7th December, 1996, that is before the coming into force
  
  of the Bombay Rent, Hotel and Lodging House Rates Control, Bombay Land
  
  Requisition and the Bombay Government Premises (Eviction) (Amendment) Act,
  
  1996;
  (4) "legal representative" means a
  
  legal, representative as defined in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, and
  
  includes also, in the case of joint family property, the joint family of which
  
  the deceased person was a member;
  (5) "Licensee", in respect of any
  
  premises or any part thereof, means the person who is in occupation of the
  
  premises or such part, as the case may be, under a subsisting agreement for
  
  license given for a license fee or charge; and includes any person in such
  
  occupation of any premises or part thereof in a building vesting in or leased
  
  to a co-operative housing society registered or deemed to be registered under
  
  the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960; but does not include a paying
  
  guest, a member of a family residing together, a person in the service or
  
  employment of the licensor, or a person conducting a running business belonging
  
  to the licensor or a person having any accommodation for rendering or carrying
  
  on medical or Para-medical services or activities in or near a nursing home,
  
  hospital, or sanatorium or a person having any accommodation in a hotel,
  
  lodging house, hostel, guest house, club, nursing home, hospital, sanatorium,
  
  dharmashala. home for widows, orphans or like premises, marriage or public hall
  
  or like premises, or in a place of amusement or entertainment or like
  
  institution, or in any premises belonging to or held by an employee or his
  
  spouse who on account of exigencies of service or provisions of residence
  
  attached to his or her post or office is temporarily not occupying the
  
  premises, provided that he or she charges license fee or charge for such
  
  premises of the employee or spouse not exceeding the standard rent and
  
  permitted increase for such premises, and any additional sum for service
  
  supplied with such premises or a person having accommodation in any premises or
  
  part thereof for conducting a canteen, creche, dispensary or other services as
  
  amenities by any undertaking or institution; and the expressions
  
  "license", "licensor" and "premises given on
  
  license" shall be construed accordingly;
  (6) "local authority" means,-
  (a) the Mumbai
  
  Municipal Corporation constituted under the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act or
  
  the Nagpur Municipal Corporation constituted under the City of Nagpur Municipal
  
  Corporation Act, 1948 or any Municipal Corporation constituted in respect of
  
  any city under the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949.
  (b) a Municipal
  
  Council, constituted under, the Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar
  
  Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965
  (c) a Zillah Parishad
  
  and a Panchayat Samiti, constituted under the Maharashtra Zilla Parishads and
  
  Panchayat Samitis Act, 1961,
  (d) a Village Panchayat,
  
  constituted under the Bombay Village Panchayats Act, 1958,
  (e) a cantonment,
  
  constituted under the Cantonments Act, 1924,
  (f) the Nagpur
  
  Improvement Trust, constituted under the Nagpur Improvement Trust Act, 1936,
  (g) the Maharashtra
  
  Housing and Area Development Authority or a Board, constituted under the
  
  Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Act, 1976.
  (h) the City and
  
  Industrial Development Corporation,
  (i) the Pimpri and
  
  Chinchwad New Township Development Authority;
  (7) "paying guest" means a person,
  
  not being a member of the family, who is given a part of the premises, in which
  
  the licensor resides, on license;
  (8) "permitted increase" means an
  
  increase in rent permitted under the provisions of this Act;
  (9) "premises" means any building or
  
  part of a building let or given on license separately (other than a farm
  
  building) including,-
  (i) the gardens,
  
  grounds, garages and out-houses, if any, appurtenant to such building or part
  
  of a building,
  (ii) any fittings affixed
  
  to such building or part of a building for the more beneficial enjoyment
  
  thereof, but does not include a room or other accommodation in a hotel or
  
  lodging house;
  (10) "premises requisitioned or continued
  
  under requisition" means the premises requisitioned or continued under
  
  requisition under the Bombay Land Requisition Act, 1948;
  (11)   "Prescribed" means
  
  prescribed by rules;
  (12) "repealed Act" or
  
  "repealed Acts" means the Act, or Acts referred to in section 58.
  (13) "rules" means the rules made
  
  under this Act;
  (14) "standard rent', in relation to any
  
  premises means,-
  (a) where the standard
  
  rent is fixed by the Court or, as the case may be, the Controller under the
  
  Bombay Rent Restriction Act, 1939, or the Bombay Rents, Hotel Rates and Lodging
  
  House Rates (Control) Act, 1944 or the Bombay Rents, Hotel and Lodging House
  
  Rates Control Act, 1947, or the Central Provinces and Berar Letting of Houses
  
  and Rent Control Order, 1949 issued under the Central Provinces and Berar
  
  Regulation of Letting of Accommodation Act, 1946, or the Hyderabad Houses
  
  (Rent, Eviction and Lease) Control Act, 1954, such rent plus an increase of 5
  
  per cent, in the rent so fixed; or
  (b) where the standard 
  
  rent or fair rent is not so fixed, then subject to the provisions of sections 6 
  
  and 8,
  (i) the rent at which
  
  the premises were let on the 1st day of October 1987; or
  (ii) where the
  
  premises were not let on the 1st day of October 1987, the rent at which they
  
  were last let before that day, plus  an increase of 5 per cent, in the
  
  rent of the premises let before the 1st day of October, 1987, or
  (c) in any of the case
  
  specified in section 8, the rent fixed by the court;
  (15) "tenant" means any person by
  
  whom or on whose account rent is payable for any premises and includes,-
  (a) such person,-
  (i) who is a tenant,
  
  or
  (ii) who is a deemed
  
  tenant, or
  (iii) who is a
  
  sub-tenant as permitted under a contract or by the permission or consent of the
  
  landlord, or
  (iv) who has derived
  
  title under a tenant, or
  (v) to whom interest in
  
  premises has been assigned or transferred as permitted, by virtue of, or under
  
  the provisions of, any of the repealed Acts;
  (b) a person who is
  
  deemed to be a tenant under section 25;
  (c) a person to whom
  
  interest in premises has been assigned or transferred as permitted under
  
  section 26;
  (d) in relation to any
  
  premises, when the tenant dies, whether the death occurred before or after the
  
  commencement of this Act, any member of the tenant's family, who,-
  (i) where they are let
  
  for residence, is residing, or
  (ii) where they are
  
  let for education, business, trade or storage, is using the premises for any
  
  such purpose, with the tenant at the time of his death, or, in the absence of
  
  such member, any heir of the deceased tenant, as may be decided, in the absence
  
  of agreement, by the court.
  Explanation-- The provisions of this
  
  clause for transmission of tenancy shall not be restricted to the death of the
  
  original tenant, but shall apply even on the death of any subsequent tenant,
  
  who becomes tenant under these provisions on the death of the last preceding
  
  tenant.