CorporateAct No. 47 of 1963In Force

The Specific Relief Act, 1963

Governs the specific enforcement of contracts and the rectification, cancellation, and rescission of instruments. Amended significantly in 2018 to make specific performance a general rule rather than an exception, particularly for infrastructure contracts. The amended Act also introduced substituted performance and a bar on injunctions delaying infrastructure projects.

Sections

Ministry

Ministry of Law and Justice

Last Amended

2018-08-01

Key Provisions

→Specific performance as the primary remedy for breach of contract (post-2018)

→Substituted performance — party can get contract performed by third party at defaulter's cost

→Contracts not specifically enforceable — personal service, determinable contracts

→Rectification and cancellation of instruments

→Preventive relief — injunctions (temporary and perpetual)

→Mandatory injunctions — to compel performance of duty

→Infrastructure contracts: bar on injunctions delaying projects

→Declaration of legal character or right

Related Practice Areas

commercial-litigation real-estate corporate-advisory

specific performanceinjunctionbreach of contractrectificationinfrastructure contractssubstituted performance

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