Government Order (Ms.) No. 71, Regularisation of Sold Plots Without a Time Limit, 2025
The Housing and Urban Development Department issued Government Order (Ms.) No. 71 on 21 May 2025 to allow online applications without a time limit for regularising qualifying individual plots in unauthorised layouts formed on or before 20 October 2016. The benefit is based on a sale document registered before the qualifying date, and the existing regularisation rules otherwise remain unchanged. A formal amendment to the Tamil Nadu Regularisation of Unapproved Layouts and Plots Rules, 2017 will be issued later.
What the government has allowed
Government Order (Ms.) No. 71 of the Housing and Urban Development Department, dated 21 May 2025, permits members of the public to apply online without any time limit to regularise certain individual plots purchased in unauthorised layouts.
The measure is intended to help individual plot purchasers who did not submit a regularisation application within the earlier application period.
Which plots qualify
The eligibility described in Government Order (Ms.) No. 71 is based on the date when the unauthorised layout was formed and the date of the registered sale document.
Key conditions stated in the document are:
- The individual plot must be in an unauthorised layout formed on or before 20 October 2016.
- The application must be supported by a sale document registered before the qualifying date stated in the order.
- The application may be submitted online.
- No time limit applies to submitting an application for a qualifying individual plot.
- Regularisation will continue under the existing rules, without changes to their other provisions.
Earlier application period
The original regularisation framework covered unauthorised layouts where at least one plot had been sold and its sale deed had been registered on or before 20 October 2016. It required applications for the layout and its sold and unsold plots within six months from publication of the rules.
Later government orders extended that application period to 30 June 2026. Government Order (Ms.) No. 71 creates a no deadline route specifically for qualifying individual plots purchased by members of the public who did not apply during the prescribed period.
Who may be affected
Government Order (Ms.) No. 71 may affect owners or purchasers of individual plots in unauthorised layouts formed by the qualifying date, particularly those who hold an eligible registered sale document but missed the earlier application period.
The order does not announce new charges, rates or changes to the other regularisation requirements. It only states that qualifying applications may be received online without a time limit under the existing rules.
Further amendment
The Housing and Urban Development Department states that the necessary amendment to the Tamil Nadu Regularisation of Unapproved Layouts and Plots Rules, 2017 will be issued later.
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Common questions
Can I now apply after missing the earlier regularisation deadline?
Yes, if the individual plot meets the qualifying layout and registered sale document dates stated in Government Order (Ms.) No. 71. The application may be made online without a time limit.
Does the no deadline facility apply to every unauthorised plot?
No. It applies to qualifying individual plots in unauthorised layouts formed on or before 20 October 2016 and is based on a sale document registered before the qualifying date.
Have the other regularisation rules been changed?
No other changes are announced. Government Order (Ms.) No. 71 says regularisation will continue under the existing rules, and the required formal amendment to the 2017 rules will be issued later.
How must a qualifying owner submit the application?
Government Order (Ms.) No. 71 states that the application may be submitted online.
