When a document purporting to have been executed by all or any of the parties out of1[India] is not presented for registration till after the expiration of the time hereinbefore prescribed in that behalf, the registering officer, if satisfied--
(a) that the instrument was so executed, and
(b) that it has been presented for registration within four months after its arrival in1[India],
may, on payment of the proper registration-fee accept such document for registration.
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1. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, section 3 and Schedule, for "the States" (w.e.f. 1-4-1951).