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6. This Court makes it further clear that the regularisation proceedings shall be conducted by the respondents after hearing necessary parties who are likely to be affected and if there are complainants, they should also be heard. Whenever parties appear, the applicant(s) as well as the complainant(s) shall be heard and the conduct of the proceedings should be written down by the officer concerned who is hearing the matter, and he shall obtain signatures in the proceedings after recording the submissions if any made. It is like summary proceedings. The documents filed by the parties need to be given Exhibit numbers. A copy of the proceedings shall be furnished immediately thereafter to the parties concerned to avoid unnecessary allegation against the officials that the records have been manipulated. The authority concerned shall seek for written submissions from the petitioner(s)/applicant(s)/complainant(s) within a time frame and thereafter, the authority shall pass appropriate orders within thirty days in accordance with law. This Court makes it clear that the authority shall not advise any of the parties with regard to the issue that is being heard and that if there are no set-backs, and if there is violation with regard to the construction, the request of the applicants/petitioners has got to be rejected. It is further made clear that the set-backs shall not be regularised. It is open for the authorities concerned to go and inspect the sites in question and also take photographs and videographs in order to safeguard their interest. It is also open for the parties to submit the photographs and videographs in order to substantiate their respective stand. The party seeking an order under Section 80-A or Section 113-C of the Tamil Nadu Town and Country Planning Act, needs to file an affidavit/statement to the effect that the building is constructed in accordance with the plan and there are set-backs provided as per the plan. If the averment is false based on record or on inspection, the person is deemed to have approached the authority with unclean hands and no indulgence shall be shown to him. Last but not the least, the new 2017 Scheme is applicable only to unapproved layouts and unapproved plots. The cut-off date, if any, fixed earlier needs to be taken into account. As there should be lung space, the Open Space Reserve (OSR) and set-backs cannot be regularised or used for a different purpose.