(1) The registering officer may in his discretion refuse to accept for registration any document in which any interlineation, blank, erasure or alteration appears, unless the persons executing the document attest with their signatures or initials such interlineation, blank, erasure or alteration.
(2) If the registering officer registers any such document, he shall, at the time of registering the same, make a note in the register of such interlineation, blank, erasure or alteration.
STATE AMENDMENTS
Maharashtra, Gujarat:
Note.--For omission of sub-section (2) of section 20, see sub-section (3) of section 70D in Part XIA inserted in main Act by the Indian Registration (Bombay Amendment) Act, 1930 (17 of 1930) (w.e.f. 4-9-1930); Bombay Act 35 of 1958; Act 11 of 1960, Section 87; Gujarat A.L.O., 1960.