Stay of certain proceedings

(a) All applications under the Tenants Protection Act or under Chapter III of the Public Trusts Act; and (b) all suits and proceedings in execution of decrees or orders and other proceedings, for the eviction of a cultivating tenant, on the ground that he is in arrear with respect to the rent payable to the landlord or to the public trust, as the case may be, and pending before a Revenue Divisional Officer, an authorised officer, a Court or other authority, as the case may be, shall stand stayed.