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Registration Act, 1908 Section 57

Title: Registering Officers to Allow Inspection of Certain Books and Indexes, and to Give Certified Copies of Entries

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....by the registering officer. (5) All copies given under this section shall be signed and sealed by the registering officer, and shall be admissible for the purpose of proving the contents of the original documents. STATE AMENDMENTS 1Gujarat: Same as in Maharashtra. 2Maharashtra: In sub-section (1), after the words and figure "Book No. 1", the following words and figures were inserted, namely: "and, so long as they are preserved, the copies filed under subsections (1) and (3) of section 89 and the indexes relating to such copies." ____________________________ 1. Vide Act 11 of 1960, section 87 and Gujarat A.L.O., 1960. 2. Vide Bombay Acts 5 of 1929, section 10 (w.e.f. 22-5-1929) read with 35 of 1958 (w.e.f. 24-4-1958).

Registration Act, 1908 Complete Act

Title: Registration Act, 1908

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....present documents for registration Section32A - Compulsory affixing of photograph, etc. Section33 - Power-of-attorney recognizable for purposes of section 32 Section34 - Enquiry before registration by registering officer Section35 - Procedure on admission and denial of execution respectively Part VII Section36 - Procedure where appearance of executant or witness is desired Section37 - Officer or Court to issue and cause service of summons Section38 - Persons exempt from appearance at registration-office Section39 - Law as to summonses, commissions and witnesses Part VIII Section40 - Persons entitled to present wills and authorities to adopt Section41 - Registration of wills and authorities to adopt Part IX Section42 - Deposit of wills Section43 - Procedure on deposit of wills Section44 - Withdrawal of sealed cover deposited under section 42 Section45 - Proceedings on death of depositor Section46 - Saving of certain enactments and powers of Courts Part X Section47 - Time from which registered document operates Section48 - Registered documents relating to property when to take effect against oral agreements Section49 - Effect of non-registration of documents.....

Registration Act, 1908 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....after the date on which, Act No. XVI of 1864, or the Indian Registration Act, 1866, or the Indian Registration Act, 1871, or the Indian Registration Act, 1877 or this Act came or comes into force, namely:- (a) instruments of gift of immovable property; (b) other non-testamentary instruments which purport or operate to create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish, whether in present or in future, any right, title or interest, whether vested or contingent, of the value of one hundred rupees, and upwards, to or in immovable property; (c) non-testamentary instruments which acknowledge the receipt or payment of any consideration on account of the creation, declaration, assignment, limitation or extinction of any such right, title or interest; and (d) leases of immovable property from year to year, or for any term exceeding one year, or reserving a yearly rent; 12[(e) non-testamentary instruments transferring or assigning any decree or order of a court or any award when such decree or order or award purports or operates to create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish, whether in present or in future, any right, title or interest, whether vested or contingent, of the value of.....

Registration Act, 1908 Amending Act 1

Title: Registration and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2001

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....1908 2. Insertion of new section 16A - In the Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908) (hereafter in this Chapter referred to as the Registration Act), after section 16, the following section shall be inserted, namely: -- "16A. Keeping of books in computer floppies, diskettes, etc. -- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 16, the books provided under sub-section (1) of that section may also be kept in computer floppies or diskettes or in any other electronic form in the manner and subject to the safeguards as may be prescribed by the Inspector-General with the sanction of the State Government. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or in any other law for the time being in force, a copy or extracts from the books kept under sub-section (1) given by the registering officer under his hand and seal shall be deemed to be a copy given under section 57 for the purposes of sob-section (5) of that section." 3. Amendment of section 17 - In section 17 of the Registration Act, -- (a) after sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:-- "(1A) The documents containing contracts to transfer for consideration, any immovable.....

Registration Act, 1908 Section 38

Title: Persons Exempt from Appearance at Registration-office

State: Central

Year: 1908

(1) (a) A person who by reason of bodily infirmity is unable without risk or serious inconvenience to appear at the registration-office, or (b) a person in jail under civil or criminal process, or (c) person exempt by law from personal appearance in Court, and who would but for the provisions next hereinafter contained be required to appear in person at the registration-office, shall not be required so to appear. (2) In the case of every such person the registering officer shall either himself go to the house of such person, or to the jail in which he is confined, and examine him or issue a commission for his examination.

Registration Act, 1908 Section 74

Title: Procedure of Registrar on Such Application

State: Central

Year: 1908

In such case, and also where such denial as aforesaid is made before a Registrar in respect of a document presented for registration to him, the Registrar shall, as soon as conveniently may be, enquire-- (a) whether the document has been executed; (b) whether the requirements of the law for the time being in force have been complied with on the part of the applicant or person presenting the document for registration, as the case may be, so as to entitle the document to registration.

Registration Act, 1908 Section 71

Title: Reasons for Refusal to Register to Be Recorded

State: Central

Year: 1908

(1) Every Sub-Registrar refusing to register a document, except on the ground that the property to which it relates is not situate within his sub-district, shall make an order of refusal and record his reasons for such order in his Book No. 2, and endorse the words "registration refused" on the document; and, on application made by any person executing or claiming under the document, shall, without payment and unnecessary delay, give him a copy of the reasons so recorded. (2) No registering officer shall accept for registration a document so endorsed unless and until, under the provisions hereinafter contained, the document is directed to be registered.

Registration Act, 1908 Section 72

Title: Appeal to Registrar from Orders of Sub-registrar Refusing Registration on Ground Other Than Denial of Execution

State: Central

Year: 1908

(1) Except where the refusal is made on the ground of denial of execution, an appeal shall lie against an order of a Sub-Registrar refusing to admit a document to registration (whether the registration of such document is compulsory or optional) to the Registrar to whom such Sub-Registrar is subordinate, if presented to such Registrar within thirty days from the date of the order; and the Registrar may reverse or alter such order. (2) If the order of the Registrar directs the document to be registered and the document is duly presented for registration within thirty days after the making of such order, the Sub-Registrar shall obey the same, and thereupon shall, so far as may be practicable, follow the procedure prescribed in sections 58, 59 and 60; and such registration shall take effect as if the document had been registered when it was first duly presented for registration.

Registration Act, 1908 Section 47

Title: Time from Which Registered Document Operates

State: Central

Year: 1908

A registered document shall operate from the time which it would have commenced to operate if no registration thereof had been required or made, and not from the time of its registration.

Registration Act, 1908 Section 40

Title: Persons Entitled to Present Wills and Authorities to Adopt

State: Central

Year: 1908

(1) The testator, or after his death any person claiming as executor or otherwise under a will, may present it to any Registrar or Sub-Registrar for registration. (2) The donor, or after his death the donee, of any authority to adopt, or the adoptive son, may present it to any Registrar or Sub-Registrar for registration.