The Puducherry Apartment Ownership Act, 1987
The Puducherry Apartment Ownership Act, 1987
This law provides a legal framework for apartment ownership and management in the Union Territory of Puducherry. It applies to residential building owners, buyers, and tenants who formally submit their multi-unit properties to the Act. The statute establishes that an individual apartment, together with an undivided share in common areas like staircases, land, and elevators, is an independent, transferable, and heritable property. It requires registration of deeds, regulates common expenses and repairs through an association of apartment owners, and ensures separate tax assessments. By defining clear legal rights and shared governance rules, it protects apartment owners, facilitates property transactions, and ensures orderly building maintenance.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Application of the Act
- 3. Definitions
- 4. Status of apartments
- 5. Ownership of apartments
- 6. Common areas and facilities
- 7. Compliance with covenants, bye-laws and administrative provisions
- 8. Certain works prohibited
- 9. Encumbrances against apartments, removal from encumbrances, effect of part payment etc.
- 10. Common profits and expenses
- 11. Contents of Declaration
- 12. Contents of Deeds of Apartments
- 13. Declaration Deeds of Apartments and copies of floor plans to be registered
- 14. Removal from provisions of this Act
- 15. Removal no bar to subsequent submission of property to this Act
- 16. Bye-laws and their contents
- 17. Waiver of use of common areas and facilities, abandonment of apartment
- 18. Separate assessment
- 19. Charge on property for common expenses
- 20. Joint and several liability of vendor, etc.
- 21. Insurance
- 22. Disposition of property, destruction and damage
- 23. Action
- 24. Act to be binding on apartment owners, tenants, etc.
- 25. Power to make rules
- 26. Removal of doubt
- 27. Severability
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