Section - 1 - Short title, extent and commencement
REGISTRATION ACT, 1908[16 OF 1908]An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to the Registration of Documents. WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate the enactments relating to the registration of documents; it is hereby enacted as follows :-PART IPRELIMINARYShort title, extent and commencement.1. (1) This Act may be called the [***] Registration Act, 1908.[(2) It extends to the whole of India [***] :Provided that the State Government may exclude any districts or tracts of country from its operation.](3) It shall come into force on the first day of January, 1909.
*18-12-1908.This Act has been extended to-Dadra and Nagar Haveli by Regulation 6 of 1963, Goa, Daman and Diu by Regulation 11 of 1963 and the whole of the Union territory of Lakshadweep by Regulation 8 of 1965.Pondicherry by the Pondicherry (Extension of Laws) Act, 1968 (26 of 1968).
1. Word "Indian" omitted by the Indian Registration (Amendment) Act, 1969.
2. Substituted by the Part B States (Laws) Act, 1951, w.e.f. 1-4-1951.
3. Words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, dated 9-8-2019, w.e.f. 31-10-2019.
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