(1) Any application made, appeal preferred, or proceedings taken, under this Act by or against any person, may, in the event of his death, be continued by or against his legal representatives.
(2) Where any application, appeal or other proceeding could have been made, preferred or taken, under this Act, by or against any person, such application, appeal or other proceeding may, in the event of his death, be made, preferred or taken by or against his legal representatives.
Summons to witnesses
28. Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed, the Controller may, in his discretion, issue summons to witnesses requiring them to attend in person to give evidence or to produce documents, in their custody in connection with any proceedings before him.
Exemption
29. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the Government may, subject to such conditions as they deem fit, by notification, exempt any building or class of buildings from all or any of the provisions of this Act.
Certified extracts from Property Tax Assessment Register
30. The Officer-in-Charge of Property Tax Assessment Register shall, on application made in this behalf and on payment of two rupees per entry relating to each year, grant to the applicant a certified copy of the extract from the said Register showing the rental value of the building or buildings in respect of which application has been made relating to the period specified in the application. Such certified copy shall be received as evidence of the facts stated therein, in proceedings under this Act.
Landlord and tenant to furnish particulars
31. Every landlord and every tenant of a building shall be bound to furnish to the Controller or any person authorised by him in that behalf, such particulars in respect of the building as may be prescribed.
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32. *[(1) If any person contravenes any of the provisions of sub-section (1), (2),
(4) and (5) of section 4, sub-section (4) of section 4-A, clause (a) of sub-section (1) and clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 7, sub-section (1) of section 8, sub-section
(1) of section 17, section 21, sub-section (2) of section 22 or section 31, or any order under sub-section (3) or sub-section (3-A) of section 10, or sub-section (3) of section 17, or any of the conditions in the notification issued under section 29, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees.
(1-A) Any landlord or the member of his family, as the case may be, who, after obtaining possession of a building under sub-section (3) or sub-section (3-A) of section 10, does not occupy it within one month of his taking possession or having so occupied, vacates it without reasonable cause within six months of such date, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees].
(2) (a) Any landlord who after the allottee has vacated the building before the date specified in the order passed under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 12, fails to commerce the work of repairs without reasonable excuse and any landlord or other person in occupation of the building who fails to comply with the order passed by the authorised officer under sub-section (6) of section 12, shall, on conviction, be punishable with fine which may extend to *[two thousand rupees].
(b) Any landlord who recover possession on the ground specified in clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 12 and fails to carry out the undertaking referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (3) of the said section without any reasonable excuse or fails to comply with the conditions and restrictions prescribed under subsection (2) of the said section or fails to comply with the order of the authorised officer under sub-section (1) of section 13 shall, on conviction, be punishable with fine which may extend to *[two thousand rupees].
(3) (a) Any landlord who after the tenant has vacated the building before the date specified in the order passed under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 14 fails to commence the work of repairs without reasonable excuse and any landlord or other person in occupation of the building who fails to comply with the order passed by the Controller under sub-section (2) of section 15 shall, on conviction, be punishable with fine which may extend to *[two thousand rupees].
* Amended by Act No.8 of 1980 which came into force w.e.f 30.07.1980.
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(b) Any landlord who recovers possession on the ground specified in clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 14 and fails to carry out the undertaking referred to in clause (b) of sub-section (2) of the said section without any reasonable excuse or fails to comply with the order of the Controller under sub-section (1) of section 16, shall, on conviction, be punishable with fine which may extend to *[two thousand rupees].
Power to make rules
33. 1 [(1) The Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act.]
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for ---
(a) all matters expressly required or allowed by this Act to be prescribed;
(b) the procedure to be followed by Controllers and appellate authorities in the performance of their functions under this Act;
(c) the manner in which notices and orders under this Act shall be given or served;
(d) setting aside ex-parte orders and orders of dismissal for default passed under this Act;
(e) applications for making legal representatives of deceased persons, parties to proceedings under this Act and the time within which such applications shall be preferred;
(f) the procedure to be followed in taking possession of a building and in disposing of the articles found therein at the time of taking possession; and
(g) the fee leviable in respect of applications and appeals under this Act.
(3) In making a rule under this section, the Government may provide that a person who contravenes any of the provisions thereof shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.
* Amended by Act No.8 of 1980 which came into force w.e.f 30.07.1980.
1. Substituted by Act 15 of 1970 w.e.f 01.08.1969.
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(4) All rules made and all notifications issued under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after they are made or issued, before the Legislative Assembly, Puducherry, while it is in session for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and it before the expiry of the session in which they are so laid or the session immediately following, the Legislative Assembly makes any modification in the rule or modification in the rule or notification or decides that the rule or notification should not be made or issued, the rule or notification shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule or notification.
Indemnity