Office Order No.9/2012, Guidelines for Collection of Infrastructure & Amenities Charges
The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority, Administration Division, issued Office Order No.9/2012 on 21 May 2012 to govern Infrastructure & Amenities charges when a completion certificate covers additional permissible floor area beyond the approved area. For additional floor area that satisfies completion certificate norms, the charge must be collected at the rate applicable when the planning permission was issued.
What the office order governs
Office Order No.9/2012, issued by the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority, Administration Division, on 21 May 2012, deals with Infrastructure & Amenities charges at the completion certificate stage. It applies where construction includes floor area beyond the area approved in the planning permission, but the additional area is allowable under completion certificate norms.
The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority treated the completion certificate process as a continuous and concluding part of the planning permission that had already been issued.
Who may be affected
Office Order No.9/2012 is relevant to applicants seeking a completion certificate from the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority where:
- The completed building has more floor area than the approved floor area.
- The additional floor area satisfies the applicable completion certificate norms.
- Infrastructure & Amenities charges must be collected for that additional allowable area.
The instruction concerns the rate to be used for calculating the charge. It does not set out a numerical rate in the text.
Key provisions
Authority Resolution No.54/2012, dated 7 May 2012, approved the following approach:
- Infrastructure & Amenities charges are collected for additional allowable floor area covered by the completion certificate norms.
- The applicable rate is the rate at which the original planning permission was issued.
- The existing procedure for additional area constructed over and above the approved area, while satisfying completion certificate norms, continues to be followed.
Relationship with revised charges
Government Order G.O.Ms.No.86, issued by the Housing and Urban Development (UD-4(1)) Department on 28 March 2012, revised Infrastructure & Amenities charges with effect from 28 March 2012. Office Order No.7/2012, dated 16 April 2012, had provided detailed guidelines for collecting those charges when issuing planning permission.
Office Order No.9/2012 separately confirms that, for qualifying additional floor area considered at the completion certificate stage, collection continues at the rate applicable when the planning permission was issued.
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Common questions
Which rate applies to additional floor area identified at the completion certificate stage?
For additional allowable floor area that satisfies completion certificate norms, Infrastructure & Amenities charges are collected at the rate applicable when the planning permission was issued.
Does Office Order No.9/2012 apply to every area built beyond the approved floor area?
The instruction covers additional area built over and above the approved area only when that area satisfies completion certificate norms.
Did the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority introduce a new collection procedure?
No. Office Order No.9/2012 states that the procedure already being followed for qualifying additional area must continue.
Does Office Order No.9/2012 state the amount of the Infrastructure & Amenities charge?
No numerical rate is stated. The office order directs the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority to use the rate at which the planning permission was issued.
