Source, commencement and implementation control
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs / State and UT RERA Authorities
Institutional and enabling provisions commenced on 1 May 2016; core registration, promoter, allottee and penalty provisions commenced on 1 May 2017.
Central Act must be combined with State/UT Rules, regulations, Authority orders, project registration and portal records.
Provision architecture and professional interpretation are local. Exact statutory wording and event-date instruments remain controlled by the official source.
Official source: Open the current India Code record.
Provision-specific operating checklist
- Verify project, phase, promoter, agent and registration status.
- Reconcile sanctioned plans, disclosures and agreement for sale.
- Control the separate account, withdrawals and certification trail.
- Track completion date, force-majeure extensions and quarterly updates.
- Calculate refund, interest, compensation and defect-liability exposure.
- Separate authority, adjudicating officer, tribunal and consumer remedies.
Topic under review: Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 - Complete Professional Corpus. Before advice, filing, enforcement or publication, preserve the operative Act, commencement notification, applicable Rules/regulations, amendments, portal instructions and current judicial treatment in the matter file.
Finin2min implementation record for this unit
Decision question. Identify the exact statutory or regulatory trigger covered by Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 - Complete Professional Corpus, the person on whom the duty falls, the event date and the evidence that proves compliance or breach.
Applicability test. Record the entity, transaction, product, data set, project, market or proceeding in scope; test statutory exclusions and exemptions; then freeze the version of the law applying on the event date.
Execution workflow. Allocate the matter to responsible legal, compliance, finance, operations and evidence owners; prepare a dated issue note; obtain approvals; complete filing, disclosure, notice, payment or remediation; and retain acknowledgement plus supporting evidence.
Consequence and remedy. Distinguish administrative correction, civil relief, compensation, monetary penalty, prosecution, appeal, settlement, mediation, arbitration and constitutional or judicial review. Limitation and pre-deposit requirements must be computed independently.
Cross-law review. Test the Contract Act, Companies Act, GST, income tax, accounting, evidence, limitation, arbitration, consumer, competition, insolvency, data-protection and sector-regulatory overlays only where factually relevant.
RERA is administered through State/UT Rules, Authority regulations, portals, circulars and forms. Project registration, agreement, interest, fees, bank-account controls and procedure must be verified for the project State and event date.
Map project, phase, promoter, allottee, apartment, carpet area, common area and appropriate Government.
Control registration threshold/exemptions, application, grant, extension, revocation and agent duties.
Map disclosures, advertisement, agreement, project account, approvals, changes, transfer, insurance, title, defects, refund and compensation.
Control information, payment, interest, association, conveyance and possession duties.
Map Authority establishment, registration decisions, complaints, investigation, directions, recovery and regulation-making.
Control appeal, promoter pre-deposit, procedure, evidence, orders and High Court appeal.
Calculate promoter, agent, allottee and company exposure and adjudicating-officer compensation.
Map grants, funds, accounts, audit and annual reporting.
Map civil-court bar, cognizance, delegation, Rules/regulations, other laws, overriding effect and repeal.
Maintain section-level dates: institutional provisions from 2016 and core registration/enforcement provisions from 1 May 2017.
Map project/agent registration, complaint, appeal, fees and forms for covered UTs.
Control mandatory clauses, payment, possession, interest, force majeure and conveyance.
Verify project thresholds, forms, fees, interest, exemptions, extensions and authority procedure.
Track portal updates, project bank account, quarterly returns, extension, completion and complaint procedure.
Control 70 percent account deposits, withdrawals, percentage completion and annual audit.
Verify registration, quarterly updates, complaint filing, orders and public search.
Apply official corrections and difficulty orders to current Act text.
Professional real-estate regulatory master for project applicability and phase classification
Professional real-estate regulatory master for project registration application
Professional real-estate regulatory master for promoter title and encumbrance due diligence
Professional real-estate regulatory master for advertisement and pre-launch gate
Professional real-estate regulatory master for booking form and agreement for sale
Professional real-estate regulatory master for separate project account reconciliation
Professional real-estate regulatory master for quarterly portal update calendar
Professional real-estate regulatory master for sanctioned plan change and allottee consent
Professional real-estate regulatory master for project transfer and two-third consent
Professional real-estate regulatory master for extension force majeure and revocation
Professional real-estate regulatory master for refund interest and compensation calculator
Professional real-estate regulatory master for possession conveyance and association handover
Professional real-estate regulatory master for structural defect and five-year liability
Professional real-estate regulatory master for real estate agent registration and conduct
Professional real-estate regulatory master for rera complaint and interim relief
Professional real-estate regulatory master for appellate tribunal pre-deposit and appeal
Professional real-estate regulatory master for consumer ibc and arbitration interface
Professional real-estate regulatory master for case-law citator and state circular tracker