Certificates obtained without completing project not valid, says judge Builders and real estate developers cannot escape from the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act of 2016 if they had obtained completion certificates without completing the project in all respects and without providing amenities, such as approach roads, water facilities, drainage connections and so on, as agreed between them and the purchasers, the Madras High Court has held. Justice S.M. Subramaniam held that “mere completion of structural building is insufficient to arrive a conclusion that it is a ‘completion’ within the meaning of the provisions of the RERA or under the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act of 1971… Even in common parlance, the word ‘completion’ would only mean substantial completion in accordance with the contract between the parties.”