The Registration Act, 1908

§60 — Certificate of registration

(1) After such of the provisions of sections 34, 35, 58 and 59 as apply to any document presented for registration have been complied with, the registering officer shall endorse thereon a certificate containing the word “registered”, together with the number and page of the book in which the document has been copied. (2) Such certificate shall be signed, sealed and dated by the registering officer, and shall then be admissible for the purpose of proving that the document has been duly registered in manner provided by this Act, and that the facts mentioned in the endorsements referred to in section 59 have occurred as therein mentioned.

State amendments

This section has been amended in its application to Karnataka, Kerala, Orissa, Tripura 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.

Karnataka[Vide Karnataka Act 55 of 1976, s. 12]Read →Hide
Karnataka Amendment of section 60.—The words "the document has been copied", the words " a true copy of the document has been filed" shall be substituted.
Kerala[Vide kerala Act 7 of 1968, s. 11]Read →Hide
Kerala Amendment of section 60.-In sub-section (1) of section 60, for the principal Act, for the words "the document has been copied", the words "the true copy of the document has been filed" shall be substituted.]
Tripura[Vide Tripura Act 7 of 1982, s. 10]Read →Hide
Tripura Amendment of Section 60.—In sub-section (1) of section 60 of the principal Act, for the words “the document has been copied”, the words “the true copy of the document has been pasted” shall be substituted.
Orissa[Vide Orissa Act 14 of 1989, s. 10]Read →Hide
Orissa Amendment of section 60.— In the Principal Act, in sub-section (1) of section 60, for the words “ the document has been copied”, the words “ the true copy of the document has been filed” shall be substituted.
Uttarakhand[Vide Uttarakhand Act 24 of 2014, s. 16]Read →Hide
Uttarakhand Amendment of section 60.—In place of sub-section (1) of section 60 of the Principal Act, shall be substituted as follows; namely:-- "(1) After such of the provision of sections 34, 35, 58 and 59, as apply to any document, presented for registration, have been complied with, the registering officer shall endorse thereon a certificate containing the word 'registered' together with the number and pages of the books in which the laminated true copy thereof has been bound and kept."

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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