Section 43 MP Accommodation Control Act: Penalties

Section 43: Penalties

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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) If any person receives any rent in excess of the standard rent as specified in clause (1) of Section 7 or as fixed by the Rent Controlling Authority under Section 10, he shall be punishable with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to a sum which exceeds the unlawful charge claimed or received in excess of the standard rent by one thousand rupees, or with both.

(2) If any person contravenes any of the provisions of sub-section (2) or sub-section (3) of Section 6, he shall be punishable with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to a sum which exceeds the amount or value of unlawful charge claimed or received under the said sub-Section (2) or sub-section (3), as the case may/be, by five thousand rupees, or with both.

(3) If any tenant sub-lets, assigns or otherwise parts with the possession of the whole or part of any accommodation in contravention of the provisions of clause (b) of sub-section (1) of Section 12, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.

[(3-a) If any landlord re-lets or transfers the whole or any part of any accommodation in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of Section 17, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine, which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.]

[(4) If any landlord re-lets or transfers the whole or any part of any accommodation in contravention of the provisions of sub-section (3) or sub-section (4) of Section 23-G, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine, which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both].

(5) If any landlord contravenes the provisions of sub-section (1) of Section 38, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.

(6) If any person contravenes the provisions of [sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) of Section 39 or of sub-Section (2) of Section 40-A] he shall be punishable with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.