The Registration Act, 1908

§91 — Inspection and copies of such documents

[(1)] Subject to such rules and the previous payment of such fees as the [ [State Government], by notification in the Official Gazette, prescribes in this behalf], all documents and maps mentioned in section 90, clauses (a), (b), (c), and (e), and all registers of the documents mentioned in clause (d), shall be open to the inspection of any person applying to inspect the same, and, subject as aforesaid, copies of such documents shall be given to all persons applying for such copies. [(2) Every rule prescribed under this sub-section or made under section 69 shall be laid, as soon as it is made, before the State Legislature.]

State amendments

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

Tripura[Vide Tripura Act 7 of 1982, s. 16].Read →Hide
Tripura Insertion of new section 91A.-After section 91 of the principal Act, the following new section shall be inserted, namely:- 91-A. (1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for all purposes connected with the pasting of true copies of documents in the appropriate Books under this Act. (2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for— (a) the furnishing of true copies of documents by the person presenting the document for registration; (b) the manner in which true copies of documents shall be prepared; (c) the manner in which the true copies of documents shall be compared with the original documents after the same are admitted to registration ; and (d) the manner of pasting such copies. (3) Every rule made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made, before the Legislative Assembly of Tripura, while it is in session for a total period of not less than fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the successive sessions in which it is so laid or the successive sessions aforesaid, the Legislative Assembly agrees in making any modification in the rule or the Legislative Assembly agrees that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be or no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.

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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