law: Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 
  1. Short title, extent and commencement. -
  (1) This Act may be called the Delhi Rent
  
  Control Act, 1958.
  (2) It extends to the areas included within
  
  the limits of the New Delhi Municipal Committee and the Delhi Cantonment Board
  
  and to such urban areas within the limits of the Municipal Corporation of 
  
   Delhi as are specified in
  
  the First Schedule:
  Provided that the Central Government; may, by 
  
  notification in the Official Gazette, extend this Act or any provision thereof, 
  
  to any other urban area included within the limits of the Municipal Corporation 
  
  of Delhi of exclude any are from the operation of this Act or any provision 
  
  thereof 
  (3) It shall come into force on such date
  
  (Note: Came into force on 9-2-1959, vide S.O. 269, dated 31st January, 1959,
  
  published in the Gazette of India, Pt. II, Sec.3 (ii), p.331) as the Central
  
  Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.