§12 — Absence of Sub-Registrar or vacancy in his office

State amendments

This section has been amended in its application to Karnataka and Maharashtra. The text above is the central provision and is what applies everywhere else — these amendments are law only in the State that made them.

• Karnataka[Vide Karnataka Act 32 of 2001, s. 3]Read →Hide

  Karnataka Amendment of section 12.-In section 12, after the word "whom" the words "the Inspector-General of Registration or" shall be inserted.]
• Maharashtra[Vide Maharashtra Act 24 of 2014, s. 5]Read →Hide

  Uttarakhand Amendment of section 12.—Section 12 of the Principal Act, shall be substituted as follows; namely:-- “12. When any Sub-Registrar is absent, or when his office is temporarily vacant, any person, whom the Inspector-General of Registration appoints in this behalf, shall be Sub-Registrar during such absence or until the vacancy is filled up."

Reproduced from the same official PDF as the section above, as the amending Act words it — not a consolidated State version of the section. Check the source before relying on it.