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Registration Act, 1908

Section - 1 - Short title, extent and commencement

Section - 2 - Definitions

Section - 3 - Inspector-General of Registration

Section - 4 - Branch Inspector - General of

Section - 5 - Districts and sub-districts

Section - 6 - Registrars and sub-Registrars

Section - 7 - Offices of Registrar and Sub-Registrar

Section - 8 - Inspectors of registration offices

Section - 9 - Military cantonments may be declared sub-districts or districts

Section - 10 - Absence of Registrar or vacancy in his office

Section - 11 - Absence of Registrar on duty in his district

Section - 12 - Absence of Sub-Registrar or vacancy in his office

Section - 13 - Report to State Government of appointments under sections 10,11 and 12

Section - 14 - Establishments of registering officers

Section - 15 - Seal of registering officers

Section - 16 - Register-books and fire-proof boxes

Section - 16A - Keeping of books in computer floppies, diskettes, etc.

Section - 17 - Documents of which registration is compulsory

Section - 18 - Documents of which registration is optional

Section - 19 - Documents in language not understood by registering officer

Section - 20 - Documents containing interlineations, blanks, erasures or alterations

Section - 21 - Description of property and maps or plans

Section - 22 - Description of houses and lands by reference to Government maps or surveys

Section - 23 - Time for presenting documents

Section - 23A - Re-registration of certain documents

Section - 24 - Documents executed by several persons at different times

Section - 25 - Provision where delay in presentation is unavoidable

Section - 26 - Documents executed out of 1[India

Section - 27 - Wills may be presented or deposited at any time

Section - 28 - Place for registering documents relating to land

Section - 29 - Place for registering other documents

Section - 30 - Registration by Registrars in certain cases

Section - 31 - Registration or acceptance for deposit at private residence

Section - 32 - Persons to present documents for registration

Section - 32A - Compulsory affixing of photograph, etc

Section - 33 - Power-of-attorney recognizable for purposes of section 32

Section - 34 - Enquiry before registration by registering officer

Section - 35 - Procedure on admission and denial of execution respectively

Section - 36 - Procedure where appearance of executant or witness is desired

Section - 37 - Officer or Court to issue and cause service of summons

Section - 38 - Persons exempt from appearance at registration office

Section - 39 - Law as to summonses, commissions and witnesses

Section - 40 - Persons entitled to present wills and authorities to adopt

Section - 41 - Registration of wills and authorities to adopt

Section - 42 - Deposit of wills

Section - 43 - Procedure on deposit of wills

Section - 44 - Withdrawal of sealed cover deposited under section 42

Section - 45 - Proceedings on death of depositor

Section - 46 - Saving of certain enactments and powers of Courts

Section - 47 - Time from which registered document operates

Section - 48 - Registered documents relating to property when to take effect against oral agreements

Section - 49 - Effect of non-registration of documents required to be registered

Section - 50 - Certain registered documents relating to land to take effect against unregistered documents

Section - 51 - Register-books to be kept in the several offices

Section - 52 - Duties of registering officers when document presented

Section - 53 - Entries to be numbered consecutively

Section - 54 - Current indexes and entries therein

Section - 55 - Indexes to be made by registering officers, and their contents

Section - 56 - Copy of entries in Indexes Nos. I, II and III to be sent by Sub-Registrar to Registrar and filed

Section - 57 - Registering officers to allow inspection of certain books and indexes, and to give certified copies of entries

Section - 58 - Particulars to be endorsed on documents admitted to registration

Section - 59 - Endorsements to be dated and signed by registering officer

Section - 60 - Certificate of registration

Section - 61 - Endorsements and certificate to be copied and document returned

Section - 62 - Procedure on presenting document in language unknown to registering officer

Section - 63 - Power to administer oaths and record of substance of statements

Section - 64 - Procedure where document relates to land in several sub-districts

Section - 65 - Procedure where document relates to land in several districts

Section - 66 - Procedure after registration of documents relating to land

Section - 67 - Procedure after registration under section 30, sub-section (2

Section - 68 - Power of Registrar to superintend and control Sub-Registrars

Section - 69 - Power of Inspector-General to superintend registration offices and make rules

Section - 70 - Power of Inspector-General to remit fines

Section - 71 - Reasons for refusal to register to be recorded

Section - 72 - Appeal to Registrar from orders of Sub-Registrar refusing registration on ground other than denial of execution

Section - 73 - Application to Registrar where Sub-Registrar refuses to register on ground of denial of execution

Section - 74 - Procedure of Registrar on such application

Section - 75 - Order by Registrar to register and procedure thereon

Section - 76 - Order of refusal by Registrar

Section - 77 - Suit in case of order of refusal by Registrar

Section - 78 - Fees to be fixed by State Government

Section - 79 - Publication of fees

Section - 80 - Fees payable on presentation

Section - 81 - Penalty for incorrectly endorsing, copying, translating or registering documents with intent to injure

Section - 82 - Penalty for making false statements, delivering false copies or translations, false personation and abetment

Section - 83 - Registering officer may commence prosecutions

Section - 84 - Registering officers to be deemed public servants

Section - 85 - Destruction of unclaimed documents

Section - 86 - Registering officer not liable for thing bona fide done or refused in his official capacity

Section - 87 - Nothing so done invalidated by defect in appointment or procedure

Section - 88 - Registration of documents executed by Government officers or certain public functionaries

Section - 89 - Copies of certain orders, certificates and instruments to be sent to registering officers and filed

Section - 90 - Exemption of certain documents executed by or in favour of Government

Section - 91 - Inspection and copies of such documents

Section - 92 - Burmese registration-rules confirmed

Section - 93 - Repeals

Schedule - Repealed by the Repealing Act, 1938

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