Real Estate Act: 5 union territories awaiting for rules from the centre
- 19th Oct 2016
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The Central government is scheduled to inform the regulations of the Real Estate Act for 5 Union Territories to proceed with execution of the laws that seeks to manage the real estate industry in order to safeguard the pursuits of customers, who definitely have been obtaining a raw deal from developers.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) will certainly emphasize regulations relevant to 5 UTs - Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu as well as Lakshadweep - without legislature.
The Ministry of Urban Development will come away with this kind of regulations for the National Capital Region of Delhi while other states and UTs will come out with their unique regulations. The states may possibly also embrace the regulations informed by the HUPA, authorities claimed.
The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2016 was handed by Rajya Sabha on March 10 and by Lok Sabha on March 15 2016. Based on a confirmation granted in April 2016, the regulations for the housing industry were to be informed by October 31 2016 or perhaps within 6 months of the Act stepping into force.
In accordance with provisions of the Act, Real Estate Regulatory Authorities (RERA) and Real Estate Appellate Tribunals are required to be established towards the end of April, 2017 and the entire Act should be to come into influence the day after. The Act, which happens to be an important restructure measure to improve the immense real estate industry, necessitates enlistment of all the projects with state level Real Estate Regulatory Authorities to guarantee safety of the pursuits of each customers as well as developers.
The Real Estate Act provides for imprisonment of as much as 3 years in case of promoters of projects and up to 12 months in case of real estate agents or monetary penalties or both in case of any violation of norms.