The stay of the operation of the order of eviction passed by a Rent Controlling Authority or by the High Court shall not enure for a total period of more than six months.
[CHAPTER III-A] Eviction of tenants on Grounds of bonafide Requirement
Section 23F: Duration of stay
The Madhya Pradesh Accommodation Control Act, 1961
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This is the text of the Act as it stood in undivided Madhya Pradesh before 1 November 2000, as published by India Code in its Chhattisgarh collection. India Code has no copy filed under Madhya Pradesh.
Square brackets mark words inserted or substituted by later amending Acts. This copy has no footnotes naming those Acts or their dates.
The Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha lists of Acts passed from 2014 to 2026 show no Act amending this Act, and the Madhya Pradesh Jan Vishwas Acts of 2025 do not touch it. No official list of Acts for 2000 to 2013 could be checked. In September 2026 the Madhya Pradesh High Court quoted Section 23-J in the same words as this copy.
The Madhya Pradesh Parisar Kirayedari Adhiniyam, 2010 (Act No. 16 of 2012) repeals this Act from a date to be notified. The Madhya Pradesh High Court recorded in 2017 and 2018 that it had not been notified, and the High Court continues to apply this Act in 2026.
Raipur, Durg and the other Chhattisgarh areas named in the text and the First Schedule have been part of Chhattisgarh since 1 November 2000. References to the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 and the Indian Penal Code, 1860 are printed as in the original.
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Clauses (a), (c) and (d) of Section 29(1) are printed incomplete in this copy and are reproduced as printed.
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