If the person, who contravenes any order made or deemed to have been made under this Act is a company, partnership, firm or other body corporate, every director, partner, manager, secretary or other officer or agent thereof shall, unless he proves that the contravention took place without his knowledge or that he exercised all due diligence to prevent such contravention, be deemed to be guilty of such contravention.
CHAPTER VII Miscellaneous
Section 47: Liability of contravention in case of company, firm etc
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.
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