(1) The Government may by notification in the Telangana Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act.
(2) Without projudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for- Exemptions.
Executive authorities of local bodies to furnish certified extracts from property tax assessment books.
Landlord and tenant to furnish particulars.
Penalties.
Power to make rules.
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(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 passed under this Act;
(e) applications for making legal representatives of deceased persons, parties to proceedings under this Act and 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 possesson;
(g) the fee leviable in respect of applications and appeals under this Act; and
(h) any other matter for which there is no provision or no sufficient provision in this Act and for which provision is, in the opinion of the Government, necessary for giving effect to the purposes of 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 two thousand rupees.
(4) All rules made under this section shall, as soon as may be after they are made, be laid on the Table of both the Houses of the State Legislature for fourteen days and shall [Act No. XV of 1960] 35 be subject to such modification, whether by way of repeal or amendment, as the State Legislature may make during the session in which they are so laid.
31. The Controller or any person authorised in writing by him in this behalf, by general or special order, may enter and inspect any building for the purpose of any inquiry or for any other purpose connected with this Act or the rules made thereunder.
9[32. The provisions of this Act shall not apply,-
(a) to any building belonging to the State Government or the Central Government, or Cantonment Board or any local authority;
(b) to any building constructed or substantially renovated, either before or after the commencement of this Act for a period of fifteen years from the date of completion of such construction or substantial renovation.
Explanation-I:- A building may be said to be substantially renovated if not less than seventy five per cent of the premises is built new in accordance with the criteria prescribed for determining the extent of renovation.
Explanation-II:- Date of completion of construction shall be the date of completion as intimated to the concerned authority or of assessment of property tax, whichever is earlier, and where the premises have been constructed in stages the date on which the initial building was completed and an intimation thereof was sent to the concerned authority or was assessed to property tax, whichever is earlier.
9. Substituted with marginal heading by Act No.17 of 2005.
Power to enter and inspect premises.
Act not apply to certain buildings.
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(c) to any building the rent of which as on the date of commencement of the Andhra Pradesh Buildings (Lease, Rent and Eviction) Control (Amendment) Act, 2005, exceeds rupees three thousand and five hundered per month in the areas covered by the Municipal Corporations in the State and rupees two thousand per month in other areas.]
33. The Madras Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1949 (Madras Act XXV of 1949), and the Hyderabad Houses (Rent, Eviction and Lease) Control Act, 1954 (Hyderabad Act XX of 1954) (hereinafter in this section referred to as the repealed Acts), are hereby repealed:
Provided that the repeal shall not affect—
(a) the previous operation of the repealed Acts or any thing duly done or suffered thereunder; or
(b) any right, privilege, obligation or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under the repealed Acts; or
(c) any penalty or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed under the repealed Acts; or
(d) any investigation, legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty or punishment as aforesaid;
and any such investigation, legal proceeding or remedy may be instituted, continued or enforced, and any such penalty or punishment may be imposed as if this Act had not been passed subject to the condition that after the commencement of this Act no sentence of imprisonment shall be passed in any case under section 16 of the repealed Madras Act pending on such commencement:
Repeals and savings.
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Provided further that, subject to the preceding proviso anything done or any action taken including any appointment made, notification, order, instruction or direction issued, or rule framed under the repealed Acts shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the corresponding provision of this Act, and shall continue to be in force accordingly, unless and until superseded by anything done or any action taken under this Act.