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CHAPTER VIII MISCELLANEOUS

Section 70: Protection of action taken in good faith

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 The East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949 is repealed for Punjab by section 75, subject to the savings in that section.

No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any Rent Authority or Additional Rent Authority in respect of anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of this Act.

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