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REGISTERED RENT AGREEMENT (THREE TO FIVE YEARS)

Execution date: __________

This deed is made between __________, of __________ (the “Landlord”), and __________, of __________ (the “Tenant”), concerning __________ (the “Premises”).

1. 1. Grant, term and possession

1. 2. Rent

1. 3. Security deposit

1. 4. Occupation and use

1. 5. Maintenance, repairs and utilities

The Tenant must promptly report leakage, electrical hazard, structural cracking or another condition likely to worsen if ignored. The Landlord must carry out ownership-level repairs within a reasonable period after notice, subject to access and availability of contractors. Emergency action necessary to prevent immediate injury or major property damage may be taken first and documented afterward.

1. 6. Access and privacy

1. 7. Lock-in, default and termination

A contractual notice does not itself displace statutory rent-control protection. Section 106 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 provides a fifteen-day notice ending with the tenancy month for a month-to-month letting and six months for a year-to-year letting where that section governs; a statutory tenant under rent control is not evicted by a section 106 notice alone. Possession may be recovered only through the route permitted by the governing Punjab or Chandigarh rent law and the competent court or Rent Authority.

Material default includes persistent non-payment, unauthorised transfer of possession, substantial unlawful use, deliberate material damage, or another substantial breach that remains uncured after any cure opportunity required by this deed or law. No default clause authorises forcible eviction, lock-changing, seizure of belongings or deliberate disconnection of essential services as a self-help remedy.

1. 8. Punjab and Chandigarh rent-law context

For Punjab, the project specification identifies two rent-law tracks. The Punjab Rent Act, 1995 governs generally, while its saving provision—numbered section 76(2) in one text and section 75 in the Gazette text and cited as section 75 in Neeraj Malhotra v. Jaswant Singh—preserves the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 for cases and proceedings concerning premises let before commencement, other than the NRI-owned-premises position described in the specification. The specification further records Krishan Kumar v. Kamla Devi, 2016(1) RCR (Rent) 525, as harmonising sections 3(1)(a), 24(3) and 75 for NRI landlords. Chandigarh operates under the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 as extended to Chandigarh.

The parties acknowledge that this deed records their contract, while mandatory rent-control rights and remedies prevail where they apply.

1. 9. Registration and stamping

For Punjab, Article 35 of Schedule I-A to the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 as applicable in Punjab governs a lease; for fixed rent with no premium and a term below twenty years, the rate used for this template is 3.25% of the average annual rent. For Chandigarh, the applicable stamp-duty rate is 5% of the consideration.

1. 10. Notices

1. 11. Handover and end-of-term accounting

At commencement the parties should sign a move-in handover checklist, meter-reading record and, where relevant, inventory/furnishing schedule. At expiry or lawful earlier termination, the Tenant will return vacant possession, keys and access devices, remove personal belongings, clear attributable utility and maintenance dues, and permit a joint condition inspection. Reasonable wear and tear is not damage.

1. 12. Entire agreement and amendments

This deed and its signed schedules contain the tenancy terms on the matters they address. An amendment affecting rent, term, possession, deposit or another material obligation should be recorded in writing and, where the law requires, stamped and registered. Waiver of one breach is not a permanent waiver of the clause. If one provision is unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue to the extent they can operate independently.

SCHEDULE A — DESCRIPTION OF PREMISES

Title/letting authority reference:

The move-in checklist, meter record and any inventory signed on handover are incorporated as evidentiary schedules to this deed.

PERSONAL DATA NOTICE

This notice is given under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. Personal data appearing in this document is collected for the specific purpose of execute, register and administer the residential tenancy and preserve the tenancy record, communicating about it, and maintaining the resulting legal or operational record. The data may be shown to the owner, tenant, authorised property manager or consultant involved in the transaction, and to a verification or professional service provider specifically instructed for that purpose.

If the transaction does not proceed, application-stage personal data will be retained for 90 days from the decision or withdrawal. If the transaction proceeds, the document record will be retained for the term of the tenancy or transaction, plus 12 months. Data collected only to verify identity at one moment should be destroyed after verification, retaining only the fact and date of verification.

Data minimisation: this document does not require a full Aadhaar number to be printed in shared prose. Where Aadhaar-based identity is offered in a KYC context, a masked Aadhaar should be accepted together with an alternative identity route such as passport, driving licence or voter identity card. PAN, bank-account and salary details are collected only where the purpose of the particular document genuinely requires them.

1. 13. Execution