5. Agreement between landlord and tenant. Click here (1) The agreement by which a landlord lets out any premises to a tenant shall be in writing and if such agreement is not compulsorily registerable under any law for the time being in force, it shall be attested by, signing by, and sealing with the seal of, the Controller within whose jurisdiction the premises is situated or, any Civil Judge or First Class Magistrate.

(2) Where any agreement by which a landlord lets out any premises to a tenant is compulsorily registerable under any law for the time being in force, a certified copy of the registered deed and where the agreement is not so registerable, the original deed duly attested under subsection (1), shall be produced and accepted in proof of the relationship of the landlord and tenant:

Provided that nothing in this section shall affect any agreement between the landlord and tenant immediately before coming into force of this Ordinance.