Tamil Nadu Government Gazette Extraordinary No. 7A, Part IV, Section 1

What the Gazette publishes

Tamil Nadu Government Gazette Extraordinary No. 7A records seven bills introduced in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on January 7, 2019. They were published with statements of reasons for public information. The text describes proposed legislation, not completed property approvals, title records or land registrations.

The issue lists bills relating to salaries, private colleges, industrial area development, agricultural produce marketing, stamp law, goods and services tax, and value added tax. The supplied text gives detailed provisions only for Legislative Assembly Bill Nos. 1/2019 to 4/2019.

Provisions detailed in the supplied text

• Legislative Assembly Bill No. 1/2019 proposes travel fare eligibility for former members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly or Legislative Council. It covers two tier air conditioned sleeper rail travel between their usual residence and Chennai for Independence Day and Republic Day celebrations. A former member holding a free railway pass from the Central Government or another authority, or serving as a Member of Parliament, would not receive the fare. The bill repeals the related 2018 emergency ordinance while preserving actions already taken.
• Legislative Assembly Bill No. 2/2019 proposes changing a period under the Tamil Nadu Private Colleges (Regulation) Act, 1976, from five years to seven years. It also validates the Government’s continued management of Chikkaiah Naicker College in Erode during the period specified in the bill.
• Legislative Assembly Bill No. 3/2019 proposes allowing the Tamil Nadu Industrial Township Area Development Authority, with prior Government approval, to delegate powers and functions to a government company formed as a special purpose vehicle. Delegation may last for different periods depending on the function, but not beyond thirty years. Delegated powers must be withdrawn if the special purpose vehicle stops being a government company.
• Legislative Assembly Bill No. 4/2019 proposes replacing a period of seven years and six months with eight years and six months in the Tamil Nadu Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1987. It repeals the related 2018 emergency ordinance while preserving actions already taken under it.

Relevance to land and property

Legislative Assembly Bill No. 3/2019 is the provision most directly relevant to industrial property. Owners, buyers and professionals dealing with land in an industrial township or industrial node may need to identify whether development, maintenance or administrative functions have been delegated to a special purpose vehicle. The Gazette itself does not identify individual land parcels or change any recorded ownership.