Short title and extent

(1) This Act may be called the Madras City Tenants' Protection Act, 1921. (2) (a) It extends to,— (i) the City of Madras; (ii) the townships of Kodambakkam, Avadi, Kathivakkam, Ambattur, Madhavaram, Bhavanisagar, Courtallam and Attur. (b) The State Government may, by notification in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, extend this Act with effect from such date as may be specified in the notification to— (i) any other municipal town; (ii) any other township; (iii) any specified village within eight kilometres of the City of Madras, or of the township referred to in sub-clause (ii) of clause (a), or of such other municipal town referred to in sub-clause (i) or township referred to in sub-clause (ii). (3) This Act shall apply,— (a) in the areas in which this Act is in force on the date of the publication of the Madras City Tenants' Protection (Amendment) Act, 1979 to the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, only to tenancies of land granted before that date; and (b) in any other areas, only to tenancies of land granted before the date with effect from which this Act is extended to such area by notification under clause (b) of sub-section (2). (bb) in any township, by the township committee constituted under the Tamil Nadu Act X of 1950, or of a panchayat or panchayat union constituted under the Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act, 1958 (Tamil Nadu Act of 1958), by the panchayat or by the panchayat union concerned. (4) The State Government may, by notification in the Fort St. George Gazette, cancel any notification issued under sub-section (2), but the cancellation shall not be deemed to affect the power of the State Government. (5) Where a notification is issued under sub-section (4), every proceeding pending on the date of the publication of such notification and instituted under the provisions of this Act as extended by virtue of the notification shall abate. Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section shall be deemed to invalidate any suit or proceeding in which the decree or order passed has been executed or satisfied in full before the date mentioned in this sub-section. (6) Every notification issued under sub-section (2) or sub-section (4) shall be laid before the Legislature, if it is sitting, as soon as may be after the issue of the notification, and if it is not sitting within seven days of its re-assembly, and the State Government shall seek the approval of the Legislature to the notification by a resolution moved within a period of fifteen days beginning with the day on which the notification is so laid before it; and if the Legislature makes any modification in the notification or directs that the notification should cease to have effect, the notification shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder. (1) This Act may be called the Madras City Tenants' Protection (Amendment) Act, 1979. (2) The provisions of this Act, except sections 9 and 10, shall be deemed to have come into force on the 9th January, 1974. (1) This Act may be called the Madras City Tenants' Protection (Amendment) Act, 1994. (2) It shall come into force at once.