The Registration Act, 1908

§32 — Persons to present documents for registration

Except in the cases mentioned in [sections 31, 88 and 89], every document to be registered under this Act, whether such registration be compulsory or optional, shall be presented at the proper registration-office,— (a) by some person executing or claiming under the same, or, in the case of a copy of a decree or order, claiming under the decree or order, or (b) by the representative or assign of such person, or (c) by the agent of such person, representative or assign, duly authorised by power-of- attorney executed and authenticated in manner hereinafter mentioned.

State amendments

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

Gujarat[Vide Gujarat Act 4 of 2020, s. 3]Read →Hide
Gujarat Amendment of section 32 of XVI of 1908.—In the principal Act, in section 32, the following Explanation shall be added at the end, namely:-- “Explanation.—For the purpose of this section the term “document” shall include the document presented by an electronic means.”
Uttarakhand[Vide Uttarakhand Act 24 of 2014, s.7]Read →Hide
Uttarakhand Amendment of section 32-A.—In section 32-A of the Principal act,-- (1) in sub-section (1)- (i) the words, "in such areas as may be notified by the State Government," shall be omitted; (ii) the word photostat" wherever occurring including heading, shall be omitted; (2) in sub-section (2)- (i) for the words "photostat copy" the words "true copy" shall be substituted; (ii) for clauses (b) and (c), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:- "(b) be compared and verified by such official as may be directed by the Registering Officer." (3) Sub-section (3) shall be omitted.
Uttarakhand[Vide Uttarkhand Act 24 of 2014, s. 8]Read →Hide
Repealed at section 32-B.—Section 32-B of the Principal Act shall be repealed.

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.

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Official text: India Code (official) ↗

Official India Code text: The Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), English PDF (bitstream 123456789/2190/5/A1908-16.pdf, 721,071 bytes, sha256 95b81008f2d529cf...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-01. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. This Act carries the heaviest State amendment apparatus in the corpus — 44 regions and 154 cited blocks, several States stacked under a single banner — all of which is skipped rather than presented as central law (D-052). The published section set is the Act's own arrangement of sections exactly: 1-93 plus 16A, 23A and 32A, 96 in all. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.

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