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CHAPTER II Provisions Regarding Rent

Section 7: Standard 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.

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.

"Standard rent" in relation to any accommodation means-

(1) where reasonable annual rent or fair rent has been fixed by a competent authority under the repealed Act or prior to the commencement of the repealed Act, as the case may be, by a competent authority under the enactment for the time being in force, such reasonable annual rent or fair rent ;

(2)(i) where the accommodation was let out on or before the 1st day of January, 1948, and the reasonable annual rent or fair rent has not been so fixed, the rent of that accommodation as shown in the Municipal Assessment Register or as was realised on the 1st day of January, 1948, whichever is less; or

(ii) where the accommodation was not let out on or before the 1st day of January, 1948, the rent of that accommodation as shown in the Municipal Assessment Register or as could be realised on the 1st day of January, 1948, whichever is less ; increased-

(a) in the case of a residential accommodation and accommodation used for education purposes, by thirty-five per cent of such rent;

(b) in the case of other accommodation, by seventy per cent of such rent; and

(c) in case the tenant is not liable to pay the municipal tax and there has been any increase in municipal tax subsequent to 1st day of January, 1948, [by an amount equal to such increase]:

Provided that the increase specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) shall be permissible only if the accommodation has been kept in good and tenantable repairs;

(3) in case of accommodation not falling under clause (1) or (2) above,-

(a) if the accommodation is separately assessed to municipal assessment, the annual rent according to such assessment plus fifteen per cent thereon;

(b) if only a part of the accommodation is so assessed, the proportionate amount of the annual rent for the whole accommodation according to such assessment plus fifteen per cent thereon;

(c) if the accommodation is not so assessed,-

(i) the annual rent calculated with reference to the rent agreed upon between the landlord and the tenant when such accommodation is first let out, and if it has not been so let out, to such amount for which it could be let out immediately after its construction was completed; or

(ii) the annual rent calculated on the basis of annual payment of an amount equal to 6¾ per cent per annum of the aggregate amount of the actual cost of construction and the market price of the land comprised in the accommodation on the date of the commencement of the construction;

whichever is less.

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