Overview
- UP RERA’s 10th amendment to its 2019 rules, which took effect Wednesday, empowers its benches to hear complaints from buyers in projects that were never registered.
- The bench must first decide if a project needed registration under Section 3 of the RERA law and Rule 2(1)(h) in Uttar Pradesh, then refer cases needing registration to the Secretary before ruling on the complaint itself.
- Because unregistered projects often lack records, complainants will have to supply extra details, with a new Form M filing option to be added on the UP RERA portal.
- Regulation 47 now caps what promoters can charge to process changes in ownership: up to Rs 1,000 for a transfer to a family heir and up to Rs 25,000 for a transfer to a non-family buyer.
- No fresh sale or lease contract will be drawn for such changes, since promoters must endorse the update in the existing agreement and then correct their records.