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Draft a written request to your landlord for consent to sub-let, with the statutory references and a reply deadline.
The Sublet Permission Request Generator drafts the written request a tenant sends a landlord asking for consent to sub-let, take in a paying guest or assign the tenancy. It sets out the premises, the proposed occupant, the exact period and the tenant's undertakings, and cites the two provisions that matter — section 108(j) of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, which keeps the original tenant liable despite a sub-lease, and section 8(1) of the Model Tenancy Act, 2021, which requires a supplementary agreement before sub-letting.
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Fill in 'Your full name', the "Landlord's name", the 'Address of the premises', the 'Tenancy agreement dated' field and 'Your tenancy expires on'.
Pick a 'Type of arrangement' — Sub-let the whole premises, Sub-let a part (one room / one floor), Take in a paying guest / flatmate or Assign the whole tenancy to someone else — add the "Proposed occupant's name", the proposed start and end dates, and tick the undertakings such as 'Willing to sign a supplementary agreement (Model Tenancy Act s.8)'.
The draft appears under 'Your letter' with 'Reply requested by' dated from the 15-day default, alongside the sub-letting period in days and months and the letter length; 'Copy letter' puts the full text on the clipboard.
Refuses to draft a sub-letting that runs past the date your own tenancy expires, and says by how many days it overruns.
Offers the five undertakings landlords usually want — continued liability, unchanged terms, supplementary agreement, police verification and society intimation.
Adds your chosen reply window to the letter date so the request carries a concrete date to respond by.
Only if the agreement is silent. Section 108(j) of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 allows a lessee to sub-let "in the absence of a contract or local usage to the contrary", and nearly every written lease contains exactly such a contrary clause. Where the Model Tenancy Act, 2021 has been enacted, section 8(1) additionally requires a supplementary agreement with the landlord.
No. Section 108(j) expressly preserves the lessee's liability to the lessor under the lease notwithstanding a transfer or sub-lease. If the sub-tenant stops paying or damages the property, the landlord still looks to you.
Fifteen days is a common and reasonable window for a written consent request, and is the default here. Give longer if the landlord is abroad or if the agreement itself prescribes a notice period for such requests.
The member must intimate the society that the flat is being let or occupied by someone else, and the society may levy non-occupancy charges, capped at 10% of service charges. Several states also expect police verification of the occupant. Confirm your own society's bye-laws and take legal advice for a disputed case.