CHAPTER VI Provisions Regarding Special Obligations of Landlords and Penalties

Section 41: Liability of person allotted accommodation to pay rent

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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Where an accommodation is allotted to a person under [sub-section (2) of Section 39 of Section 40-A] he shall be deemed to be a tenant of the landlord of such accommodation and shall be liable to pay therefor from the date of the vacation of the accommodation-

(a) where the accommodation before it became vacant was in occupation of a tenant, the rent payable by such tenant;

(b) where the accommodation was not previously in occupation of a tenant, such rent as may be determined by Rent Controlling Authority in accordance with the principles specified in Section 7:

Provided that where, in consequence of any proceedings under the first proviso to sub-section (2) of Section 39, the accommodation remains unoccupied by the allottee for a period exceeding fifteen days from the date of vacation thereof, the allottee shall be liable to pay rent only for a period of fifteen days out of the period during which it remained so unoccupied.

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