1. The first defendant in O.S. No. 26 of 1971, District Munsifs Court, Mahe, is the petitioner in this civil revision petition. The first respondent herein instituted a suit in ejectment against the petitioner and the second respondent herein in respect of a non-residential building situate at Mahe after giving a notice of termination of tenancy. It was pleaded that the tenant petitioner herein had committed wilful default in the payment of rents and also sublet the premises without obtaining her consent . The trial Court decreed the suit on 31st May, 1972, and an appeal against that, at the instance of the petitioner, proved unsuccessful on 17th November, 1973. Thereupon, the petitioner preferred a second appeal to this Court in S.A. No. 1389 of 1974— Total Menthamma, Naidu v. Smt. Kottikollam Edavalath Nabeesa. which was disposed of on 7th November 1977. In the course of the second appeal, a contention was put forth on behalf of the petitioner that consequent to the coming into force of the Pondicherry Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1969, hereinafter referred to as the Act, effective from 17th October, 1972 in the town of Mahe, the suit instituted by the first