4.6 Legal Provisions on House Construction/Rent

The Code's house-and-rent chapter (the old ghar bhada provisions' successor): the landlord-tenant relations — the lease's terms, the rent's reasonableness, the eviction's defined grounds (bona fide need, breach, the building's condition); the tenant's protections (notice, the fixtures, the deposit discipline); the house-construction provisions (the neighbour-law face: the wall-and-easement rules, the damage liability); beside the urban-rent practice (the rent agreements' informality, the Kathmandu market's realities). The critical study: the rural-to-urban gap — the Code's provisions aimed at the formal market while most tenancies are informal.