The Registration Act, 1908
REG · 1908
Part I · PRELIMINARY
Part II · OF THE REGISTRATION-ESTABLISHMENT
- §3Inspector-General of Registration
- §4Branch Inspector-General of Sindh.—Rep.by the Government of India (Adaptation
- §5Districts and sub-districts
- §6Registrars and Sub-Registrars
- §7Offices of Registrar and Sub-Registrar
- §8Inspectors of Registration offices
- §9Military cantonments may be declared sub-districts or districts. Rep.by the
- §10Absence of Registrar or vacancy in his office
- §11Absence of Registrar on duty in his district
- §12Absence of Sub-Registrar or vacancy in his office
- §13Report to State Government of appointments under sections 10, 11 and 12
- §14Establishments of registering officers
- §15Seal of registering officers
- §16Register-books and fire-proof boxes
- §16AKeeping of books in computer floppies, diskettes, etc
Part III · OF REGISTRABLE DOCUMENTS
- §17Documents of which registration is compulsory
- §18Documents of which registration is optional
- §19Documents in language not understood by registering officer
- §20Documents containing interlineations, blanks, erasures or alterations
- §21Description of property and maps or plans
- §22Description of houses and land by reference to Government maps or surveys
Part IV · OF THE TIME OF PRESENTATION
Part V · OF THE PLACE OF REGISTRATION
Part VI · OF PRESENTING DOCUMENTS FOR REGISTRATION
Part VII · OF ENFORCING THE APPEARANCE OF EXECUTANTS AND WITNESSES
Part VIII · OF PRESENTING WILLS AND AUTHORITIES TO ADOPT
Part IX · OF THE DEPOSIT OF WILLS
Part X · OF THE EFFECTS OF REGISTRATION AND NON-REGISTRATION
Part XI · OF THE DUITES AND POWERS OF REGISTERING OFFICERS
- §51Register-books to be kept in the several offices
- §52Duties of registering officers when document presented
- §53Entries to be numbered consecutively
- §54Current indexes and entries therein
- §55Indexes to be made by registering officers, and their contents
- §56Copy of entries in Indexes Nos
- §57Registering officers to allow inspection of certain books and indexes, and to give certified copies of entries
- §58Particulars to be endorsed on documents admitted to registration
- §59Endorsements to be dated and signed by registering officer
- §60Certificate of registration
- §61Endorsements and certificate to be copied and document returned
- §62Procedure on presenting document in language unknown to registering officer
- §63Power to administer oaths and record of substance of statements
- §64Procedure where document relates to land in several sub-districts
- §65Procedure where document relates to land in several districts
- §66Procedure after registration of documents relating to land
- §67Procedure after registration under section 30, sub-section (2). Omitted by the
- §68Power of Registrar to superintend and control Sub-Registrars
- §69Power of Inspector-General to superintend registration offices and make rules
- §70Power of Inspector-General to remit fines
Part XII · OF REFUSAL TO REGISTER
- §71Reasons for refusal to register to be recorded
- §72Appeal to Registrar from orders of Sub-Registrar refusing registration on ground other than denial of execution
- §73Application to Registrar where Sub-Registrar refuses to register on ground of denial of execution
- §74Procedure of Registrar on such application
- §75Order by Registrar to register and procedure thereon
- §76Order of refusal by Registrar
- §77Suit in case of order of refusal by Registrar
Part XIII · OF THE FEES FOR REGISTRATION, SEARCHES AND COPIES
Part XIV · OF PENALTIES
- §81Penalty for incorrectly endorsing, copying, translating or registering documents with intent to injure
- §82Penalty for making false statements, delivering false copies or translations, false personation, and abetment
- §83Registering officers may commence prosecutions
- §84Registering officers to be deemed public servants
Part XV · MISCELLANEOUS
- §85Destruction of unclaimed documents
- §86Registering officer not liable for thing bona fide done or refused in his official capacity
- §87Nothing so done invalidated by defect in appointment or procedure
- §88Registration of documents executed by Government officers or certain public functionaries
- §89Copies of certain orders, certificates and instruments to be sent to registering officers and filed
- §90Exemption of certain documents executed by or in u of Government
- §91Inspection and copies of such documents
- §92Burmese registration-rules confirmed Rep
- §93Repeals Rep