CHAPTER IV Deposit of Rent

Section 27: Saving as to acceptance of rent and forfeiture of rent in deposit

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.

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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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(1) The withdrawal of rent deposited under Section 25 in the manner provided therein shall not operate as an admission against the person withdrawing it of the correctness of the rate of rent, the period of default, the amount due, or of any other facts stated in the tenant's application for depositing the rent under the said Section.

(2) Any rent in deposit which is not withdrawn by the landlord or by the person or persons entitled to receive such rent shall be forfeited to Government by an order made by the Rent Controlling Authority, if it is not withdrawn before the expiration of five years from the date of posting of the notice of deposit.

(3) Before passing an order of forfeiture, the Rent Controlling Authority shall give notice to the landlord or the person or persons entitled to receive the rent in deposit by registered post acknowledgment due at the last known address of such landlord or person or persons and shall also publish the notice in his office, and if the amount of rent exceeds hundred rupees, shall also publish it in any local newspaper.

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