The Registration Act, 1908
§53 — Entries to be numbered consecutively
All entries in each book shall be numbered in a consecutive series, which shall commence and terminate with the year, a fresh series being commenced at the beginning of each year.
State amendments
This section has been amended in its application to 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.
Uttarakhand[Vide Uttarakhand Act 24 of 2014, s. 11]Read →
Insertion of proviso to section 53.—In section 53 of the Principal Act, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-- “ Provided that where Book is in electronic form, all entries and numbers in that Book and the Book maintained manually shall be identical.”
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.
Source & version
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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