Section 1 — Short title, application and commencement

(1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1960.

(2) (i) This Act except sub-section (2) of section 3 shall apply to the City of Chennai and to the City of Madurai and to all municipalities constituted or deemed to have been constituted under the Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 (Tamil Nadu Act V of 1920) in the State:

Provided that the Government may, by notification, direct that this Act shall cease to apply to any municipality specified therein or to the City of Chennai or to the City of Madurai from such date as may be mentioned in the notification.

(ii) Where this Act had, under the provision to sub-clause (i) ceased to apply to any such municipality or city as is mentioned in that proviso, the Government may, by notification, apply this Act, except sub-section (2) of section 3, to any such municipality or city with effect from such date as may be specified in the notification.

(b) Sub-section (2) of section 3 shall apply to the City of Chennai or to the City of Madurai or any municipality constituted or deemed to have been constituted under the Tamil Nadu District Municipalities Act, 1920 (Tamil Nadu Act V of 1920) in the State only from such date as the Government may, by notification, appoint and the Government may cancel or modify any such notification.

(c) The Government may, by notification, apply all or any of the provisions of this Act except sub-section (2) of section 3, to any other area in the State with effect from such date as may be specified in the notification, and may cancel or modify any such notification.

(d) Upon the issue of a notification under the proviso to sub-clause (i) of clause (a) or of a notification of cancellation under clause (b) or clause (c), this Act, or, as the case may be, the provision thereof, shall cease to apply, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such cesser; and section 8 of the Tamil Nadu General Clauses Act, 1891 (Tamil Nadu Act I of 1891), shall apply upon such cesser as if this Act or such provision had then been repealed by a Tamil Nadu Act; but such cesser shall not be deemed to affect the power of the Government under sub-clause (ii) of clause (a) or under clause (b) or clause (c) again to apply this Act or any such provision to any area mentioned in that sub-clause or clause.