CHAPTER VIII MISCELLANEOUS

Section 68: Jurisdiction of civil courts barred in respect of certain matters

The Punjab Rent Act, 1995

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Punjab (compilation of the Department of Legal and Legislative Affairs, Punjab, as amended up to 15 September 2025), with amendments up to Punjab Act No. 23 of 2014.

India Code records, in a footnote to section 1(4), that this Act came into force on 30 November 2013. The East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 is repealed for Punjab by section 75, subject to the savings in that section.

Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, no civil court shall entertain any suit or proceedings insofar as it relates to any other matter to which this Act applies or to any other matter which the Rent Authority is empowered by or under this Act to decide and no injunction in respect of any action taken or to be taken by the Rent Authority or the ¹[Appellate Authority] under this Act shall be granted by any civil court or other authority.

Footnotes in the official text

1.Substituted for word “Tribunal” by Punjab Act No. 23 of 2014, Section 18

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