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Registration decides the forum. GujRERA's remedies apply to projects required to be registered, and the delay is measured against the completion date the promoter itself declared at registration — not against what a sales office promised. That declared date should be recorded when you book, because it is the benchmark every later claim turns on. Appeals from the Authority go to the Gujarat Real Estate Appellate Tribunal.

Surat has a large stock of buildings that predate RERA, and for those the Gujarat Ownership Flats Act continues to govern the promoter's obligations — particularly the duty to form a co-operative society and execute conveyance. Buildings occupied for years without conveyance are common, and resolving that is usually the precondition to any later redevelopment, so the claim is framed under the Act rather than before GujRERA.

Two local complications recur. Many Surat projects sit on land reconstituted through a Town Planning Scheme, so the final plot number and the betterment charge position need checking against the sanctioned plan. And where a promoter has collapsed, the alternative forum is the NCLT Ahmedabad Bench, before which homebuyers rank as financial creditors, subject to the hundred-allottee or ten-per-cent class threshold.