THE REGISTRATION ACT, 1908
ACT NO. 16 OF 1908 1 [ 18th December, 1908.]
An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to the Registration of Documents
WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate the enactments relating to the registration of documents; It is hereby enacted as follows:-
PART I
PRELIMINARY
PART I
PRELIMINARY
PART II OF THE REGISTRATION- ESTABLISHMENT PART II OF THE REGISTRATION- ESTABLISHMENT
whether in present or in future, any right, title or interest, whether vested or contingent, of the value of one hundred rupees and upwards, to or in immovable property;
1[ Explanation.– A document purporting or operating to effect a contract for the sale of immovable property shall not be deemed to require or ever to have required registration by reason only of the fact that such document contains a recital of the payment of any earnest money or of the whole or any part of the purchase money.]
is not commonly used in the district, he shall refuse to register the document, unless it be accompanied by a true translation into a language commonly used in the district and also by a true copy.
section (2) or sub- section (3), shall not disentitle a document to be registered if the description of the property to which it relates is sufficient to identify that property. PART IV OF THE TIME OF PRESENTATION PART IV OF THE TIME OF PRESENTATION
presented for re- registration in accordance with this section, whatever may have been the time when he first became aware that the registration of the document was invalid.]
PART V OF THE PLACE OF REGISTRATION PART V OF THE PLACE OF REGISTRATION
PART VI OF PRESENTING DOCUMENTS FOR REGISTRATION PART VI OF PRESENTING DOCUMENTS FOR REGISTRATION
Provided that the following persons shall not be required to attend at any registration- office or Court for the purpose of executing any such power- of- attorney as is mentioned in clauses (a) and (b) of this section, namely:–
of the proper registration fee, in addition to the fine, if any, payable under section 25, the document may be registered.
contained be required to appear in person at the registration- office, shall not be required so to appear.
PART IX OF THE DEPOSIT OF WILLS PART IX OF THE DEPOSIT OF WILLS
such copy that the original has been removed into Court in pursuance of the order aforesaid. PART X OF THE EFFECTS OF REGISTRATION AND NON- REGISTRATION PART X OF THE EFFECTS OF REGISTRATION AND NON- REGISTRATION
of such document to each Sub- Registrar subordinate to himself in whose sub- district any part of the property is situate.
situate within his sub- district, shall make an order of refusal and record his reasons for such order in his Book No. 2, and endorse the words” registration refused” on the document; and, on application made by any person executing or claiming under the document, shall, without payment and unnecessary delay, give him a copy of the reasons so recorded.
Civil Court, within the local limits of whose original jurisdiction is situate the office in which the document is sought to be registered, a suit for a decree directing the document to be registered in such office if it be duly presented for registration within thirty days after the passing of such decree.
PART XIV OF PENALTIES PART XIV OF PENALTIES
executed by him or in his favour, in his official capacity, or to sign as provided in section 58.
Exemptions from Act
Repeals
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