Responsibility for outgoings till transfer.

A promoter shall, while he is in possession, and, where he collects from persons who have taken or are to take apartments or plots, sums for the payment of outgoings, even thereafter, pay all outgoings (including ground rent, municipal or other local taxes, charges for water or electricity, revenue assessment, interest on mortgages or other encumbrances, if any) until he transfers the property to the persons taking over the apartments or plots, where any promoter fails to pay all or any of the outgoings collected by him from the persons who have taken over or are to take over apartments or plots, before transferring the property to the persons taking over the apartments or plots, the promoter shall continue to be liable, even after the transfer of the property, to pay such outgoings and penal charges, if any, to the authority or person to whom they are payable and be responsible for any legal proceedings which may be taken therefor by such authority or person. In the principal Act, in section 15, after sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be added, namely:- "(3) After obtaining the completion certificate or occupancy certificate, as the case may be, and handing over physical possession to the allottees, it shall be the responsibility of the promoter to handover the necessary documents and plans including common areas, to the local authority or development authority or the association of the allottees, as the case may be.".