Tamil Nadu Government Gazette Extraordinary No. 274, Part IV, Section 2

What the Gazette contains

Tamil Nadu Government Gazette Extraordinary No. 274, published by the Tamil Nadu Law Department on 5 June 2026, contains five Acts passed by the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. The Gazette does not directly change land ownership, registration or property transfer rules, but the panchayat and cooperative society amendments may be relevant to people dealing with those bodies.

Agricultural produce market committees

The Tamil Nadu Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2026:

• Extends the period stated for Special Officers of market committees from fourteen years and six months to fifteen years and six months.
• Is treated as having come into force on 30 November 2025.
• Validates the appointment, actions and decisions of Special Officers from 30 November 2025 until publication of the Act.

Private school fees

The Tamil Nadu Schools (Regulation of Collection of Fee) Amendment Act, 2026 will commence on a date appointed by the State Government through notification. It:

• Revises the membership of the fee determination committee, chaired by a retired High Court Judge nominated by the Government in consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court of Madras.
• Includes education officials, a Public Works Department engineer, a parent representative and a School Education Department officer.
• Gives the nominated parent member a three year term and provides for resignation, removal, replacement, sitting fees and allowances.
• Extends one stated period from fifteen days to thirty days.
• Makes a determined fee binding on private schools for three academic years.
• Requires private schools to apply for fee revision before the existing determination expires.

Panchayat administration

The Tamil Nadu Panchayats (Amendment) Act, 2026 is treated as effective from 6 January 2026. It extends the stated period for Special Officers from 5 January 2026 to 5 July 2026 and validates their actions from 6 January 2026 until publication. The validation excludes panchayats in Kancheepuram, Chengalpattu, Villupuram, Kallakurichi, Vellore, Ranipet, Tirupathur, Tirunelveli and Tenkasi districts.

Begging law and cooperative societies

The Tamil Nadu Prevention of Begging (Amendment) Act, 2026 removes multiple references to leprosy, leper asylums and related provisions from the 1945 Act, and omits sections 10-A and 12-A.

The Tamil Nadu Co-operative Societies (Amendment) Act, 2024 makes the definition of administrator include an interim administrator. It also allows the Registrar, after issuing notice of supersession, to suspend a society board and appoint an interim administrator where continued operation of the board would be detrimental to the society.