The Registration Act, 1908

§66 — Procedure after registration of documents relating to land

(1) On registering any non- testamentary document relating to immovable properly, the Registrar shall forward a memorandum of such document to each Sub-Registrar subordinate to himself in whose sub-district any part of the property is situate. (2) The Registrar shall also forward a copy of such document, together with a copy of the map or plan (if any) mentioned in section 21, to every other Registrar in whose district any part of such property is situate. (3) Such Registrar on receiving any such copy shall file it in his Book No. 1, and shall also send a memorandum of the copy to each of the Sub-Registrars subordinate to him within whose sub-district any part of the property is situate. (4) Every Sub-Registrar receiving any memorandum under this section shall file it in his Book No. 1.

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. 21]Read →Hide
Uttarkhand Amendment of section 66.— In place of sub-section (3) and sub-section (4) of section 66 of the Principal Act shall be substituted as follows; namely:- "(3) Such Registrar, on receiving any such copy, shall take a similar action on it as taken on a document admitted to registration under sub-section (1) of section 61 and shall also send a memorandum of the copy to each of the sub-registrars subordinate to him, within whose sub-district any part of the property is situate." "(4) Every sub-registrar receiving any memorandum under this section shall take a similar action on it as taken on a copy received under sub-section (3)."

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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