Section 15 of the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999
defines the tenant thus:
“tenant” means any person by whom or on
whose account rent is payable for any
premises and includes-
(a) such person, -
(i) who is a tenant, or
(ii) who is a deemed tenant, or
(iii)who is a sub-tenant as permitted under
a contract or by the permission or
consent of the landlord, or
(iv) who has derived title under a tenant, or
(v) to whom interest in premises has been
assigned or transferred as permitted,
by virtue of, or under the provisions of,
any of the repealed Acts;
(b) a person who is deemed to be a tenant
under section 25;
(c) a person to whom interest in premises has
been assigned or transferred as permitted
under section 26;
(d) in relation to any premises, when the tenant
dies, whether the death occurred before or after
the commencement of this Act, any member of
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the tenant's family, who,-
(i) where they are let for residence, is residing,
or
(ii) where they are let for education, business,
trade or storage, is using the premises for any
such purpose,
with the tenant at the time of his death, or, in
the absence of such member, any heir of the
deceased tenant, as may be decided, in the
absence of agreement, by the court.”