1. The appellant is the tenant, whose writ petition to vacate concurrent orders by the authorities under the Kerala Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, No. XVI of 1959, hereafter referred to as the Act, been disallowed by a learned judge. The facts relevant for deciding the appeal are not in dispute, though the correctness of the grounds on which the eviction been ordered was challenged before the learned judge; and the challenge has been repeated before us. The appellant's learned advocate has urged several arguments for the appeal being allowed, three of which are against the constitutionality of the Act, and

two about the application of the provisions of the Act to the facts of the case. For better appreciation of the aforesaid grounds, we should now state the facts in the case.

2. The appellant was a teacher in the S. R.V. Government High School, Ernakulam from 1952 to July 1956, and has since been promoted as the Headmistress of the Government High School, Elamkunnapuzha. In November 1952 she was allotted the house in Ernakulam, which she has now been ordered to vacate and the ownership of the house has since changed hand, the landlord before us having purchased