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CHAPTER VI Provisions Regarding Special Obligations of Landlords and Penalties

Section 40A: Special provision of allotment during emergency

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.

This copy does not print the long title, the enacting formula or the date of assent.

Clauses (a), (c) and (d) of Section 29(1) are printed incomplete in this copy and are reproduced as printed.

The First Schedule and the Notifications are shown as printed in this copy and may not include later notifications extending the Act to other areas.

[(1) In this Section 'Proclamation of Emergency' means a Proclamation issued under clause (1) of Article 352 of the Constitution of India.

(2) During the period a Proclamation of Emergency remains in force the members of the family of-

(i) a member of the naval, military, air or other armed forces of the Union on active duty; or

(ii) a civil Government servant who, during such period, takes up service in the aforesaid forces, may notwithstanding anything- contained in this Act, be allotted accommodation at a place to be specified by the member of the said forces or the civil Government servant, as the case may be, by the Collector having jurisdiction over the said place or the authorised officer, if the accommodation is vacant or is likely to fall vacant and the said Collector or the authorised officer, as the case may be, may direct the landlord to put the members of the family in whose favour the accommodation has been allotted in possession of such accommodation and the landlord shall place such members of the family in possession thereof immediately, if the accommodation is vacant or as soon as it becomes vacant.

(3) Tenancy of any person who has been allotted accommodation under this Section shall terminate on the expiry of a period of one year from the date, the Proclamation of Emergency ceases to be in force].

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