Chapter V MISCELLANEOUS

Except as otherwise provided by this Act and notwithstanding anything contained in any other law, no civil court shall entertain or proceed with any suit or proceeding in respect of-

1. (i) any matter pending before any Court under this Act, or
2. (ii) the validity of any procedure or the legality of any award, order, declaration or decision of the Court under this Act; or
3. (iii) the recovery of any debt made payable under such award.

In computing the period of limitation for the institution of any suit or proceeding in respect of any debt due from any person who is held not to be a debtor by the Court or the Court in appeal or an application relating to which has been dismissed by the Court or the Court in appeal, the period during which the proceedings in respect of such debt were prosecuted before the Court or the Court in appeal shall be excluded.

1. (1) No person, who is or was a party to any proceedings or award under this Act and who is indebted to a resource society or any person authorised to advance loans for the financing of crops or seasonal finance under any law, shall hypothecate or sell the standing crops or the produce of his land without the previous permission of the society, or as the case may be, of the person, until such loan has been repaid in full.
2. (2) Any person who hypothecates or sells the standing crop or the produce of his land in contravention of sub-section (1), shall, on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.
3. (3) No criminal court shall take cognizance of any offence under this section except on a complaint in writing of the Court before which the proceedings were held or which made the award.

1. (1) The State Government or any officer empowered by it may, by notification in the Official Gazette, authorise in any local area any person to advance loans to debtors who are parties to any proceedings under this Act.
2. (2) The authority granted under sub-section (1) shall be subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.

1. (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette and subject to the condition of previous publication from time to time, make rules for carrying into effect the purposes of this Act.
2. (2) Every rule made under this section shall be laid, as soon as may be, after it is made, before each House of the State Legislature while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the session immediately following, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall, from the date of publication of a notification in the Official Gazette of such decision, have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done or omitted to be done under that rule.

The Madhya Pradesh Temporary Postponement of Execution of Decrees Act,1956 (M.P. V of 1956), is hereby repealed.

1. (1) The Maharashtra (Vidarbha Region) Agricultural Debtors Relief Ordinance, 1969 (Mah. Ord. VI of 1969), is hereby repealed.
2. (2) Anything done or any action taken under the Ordinance so repealed, shall be deemed to have been done or taken under this Act.