Section 20 — Establishment and incorporation of Real Estate Regulatory Authority.

20. Establishment and incorporation of Real Estate Regulatory Authority.—(1) The appropriate 

Government shall, within a period of one year from the date of coming into force of this Act, by 

notification, establish an Authority to be known as the Real Estate Regulatory Authority to exercise the 

powers conferred on it and to perform the functions assigned to it under this Act: 

Provided that the appropriate Government of two or more States or Union territories may, if it deems 

fit, establish one single Authority: 

Provided further that the appropriate Government may, if it deems fit, establish more than one 

Authority in a State or Union territory, as the case may be: 

Provided also that until the establishment of a Regulatory Authority under this section, the 

appropriate Government shall, by order, designate any Regulatory Authority or any officer preferably the 

Secretary of the department dealing with Housing, as the Regulatory Authority for the purposes under this 

Act: 

Provided also that after the establishment of the Regulatory Authority, all applications, complaints or 

cases pending with the Regulatory Authority designated, shall stand transferred to the Regulatory 

Authority so established and shall be heard from the stage such applications, complaints or cases are 

transferred. 

(2) The Authority shall be a body corporate by the name aforesaid having perpetual succession and a 

common seal, with the power, subject to the provisions of this Act, to acquire, hold and dispose of 

property, both movable and immovable, and to contract, and shall, by the said name, sue or be sued.