(1) The 1 [State Government] shall appoint an officer to be the Inspector-General of Registration for the territories subject to such Government:
Provided that the 1 [State Government] may, instead of making such appointment, direct that all or any of the powers and duties hereinafter conferred and imposed upon the Inspector-General shall be exercised and performed by such officer or officers, and within such local limits, as the 1 [State Government] appoints in this behalf.
(2) Any Inspector-General may hold simultaneously any other office under the 2 [Government].
(1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for “Provincial Government”.)
(2. Subs., ibid., for “the Crown”)
Sub-section (3) of section 3 of the Principal Act, shall be substituted as follows; namely:--
"(3) The State Government may appoint one or more Additional Inspector General of Registration, Deputy Inspectors General of Registration and Assistant Inspector General of Registration for the territories subject to such Government and may prescribe the duties of such officers and authorize them to exercise and perform all or any of the powers and duties of the Inspector General of Registration."
[Vide Uttarakhand Act 24 of 2014, s. 3]
In section 3 of the principal Act, in sub-section (3), for the words, Additional Inspector-General of Registration and Deputy Inspector General of Registration”, the words, “Additional Inspector-General of Registration, Deputy Inspector-General of Registration and Assistant InspectorGeneral of Registration” shall be substituted
[Vide Uttar Pradesh Act 36 of 2001, s. 3]
Rep.by the Government of India (Adaptation of Indian Laws) Order, 1937.
(1) For the purposes of this Act, the 1 [State Government] shall form districts and sub-districts, and shall prescribe, and may alter, the limits of such districts and sub-districts.
(2) The districts and sub-districts formed under this section, together with the limits thereof, and every alternation of such limits, shall be notified in the 2 [Official Gazette].
(3) Every such alternation shall take effect on such day after the date of the notification as is therein mentioned.
(1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for “Provincial Government”)
(2. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for “Local Official Gazette”.)
The 1 [State Government] may appoint such persons, whether public officers or not, as it thinks proper, to be Registrars of the several districts, and to be Sub-Registrars of the several sub-districts, formed as aforesaid, respectively.
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(1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for “Provincial Government”.)
(4. The proviso rep. by the A.O. 1937. Earlier it was inserted by Act 4 of 1914, s. 2 and the Schedule.)
In section 6 of the Registration Act, 1908 (Central Act 16 of 1908) the following provisos inserted, namely:-
"Provided that the State Government may also appoint one or more Sub-Registrars for the same Sub-District:
Provided further that the State Government may delegate to the Inspector-General of Registration, the power of appointing Sub-Registrars."
[Vide Karnataka Act 32 of 2001, s. 2]
After section 6 of the Registration Act, 1908 as amended in its application in Uttar Pradesh, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted, namely :—
The State Government may, by order, also appoint any public officer as an Additional Registrar, to assist the Registrar, or any two or more Registrars, specified in the order and may authorise such Additional Registrars to exercise and perform all or any of the powers and duties of the Registrar under this Act.”
[Vide Uttar Pradesh Act 27 of 1994, s. 2]
(1) The 1 [State Government] shall establish in every district an office to be styled the office of the Registrar and in every sub-district an office or offices to be styled the office of the Sub-Registrar or the offices of the Joint Sub-Registrars.
(2) The 1 [State Government] may amalgamate with any office of a Registrar, any office of a Sub-Registrar subordinate to such Registrar, and may authorise any Sub-Registrar whose office has been so amalgamated to exercise and perform, in addition to his own powers and duties, all or any of the powers and the duties of the Registrar to whom he is subordinate:
Provided that no such authorisation shall enable a Sub-Registrar to hear an appeal against an order passed by himself under this Act.
(1. The proviso rep. by the A.O. 1937. Earlier it was inserted by Act 4 of 1914, s. 2 and the Schedule.)
(1) The 1 [State Government] may also appoint officers to be called Inspectors of Registrations offices, and may prescribe the duties of such officers.
(2) Every such Inspector shall be subordinate to the Inspector-General.
In section 8 of the Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act),—
(a) in sub-section (1), for the words “ Inspector of Registration Offices” the words “ Additional Inspector –General of Registration, Joint Inspector-General of Registration and Deputy InspectorGeneral of Registration” shall be substituted; and
(b) in sub-section(2), for the words “Inspector”, the words “Additional Inspector-General, Joint Inspector-General and Deputy Inspector-General” shall be substituted.
[Vide Orissa Act 8 of 2002, s. 2]
Section 8 of the Principal act shall be repealed.
[Vide Uttarakhand Act 24 of 2014, s. 4]
9. [Military cantonments may be declared sub-districts or districts.] Rep.by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1927 (10 of 1927), s. 3 and Second Schedule.]
(1) When any Registrar, other than the Registrar of a district including a Presidency-town, is absent otherwise than on duty in his district, or when his office is temporarily vacant, any person whom the Inspector-General appoints in this behalf, or, in default of such appointment, the Judge of the District Court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the Registrar’s office is situate, shall be the Registrar during such absence or until the 1 [State Government] fills up the vacancy.
(2) When the Registrar of a district including a Presidency-town is absent otherwise than on duty in his district, or when his office is temporarily vacant, any person whom the Inspector-General appoints in this behalf shall be the Registrar during such absence, or until the 2 [State Government] fills up the vacancy.
(1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for “Provincial Government”.)
(2. Subs. by Act 4 of 1914, s. 2 and the Schedule, for “the Local Government fills up the vacancy”)
When any Registrar is absent from his office on duty in his district, he may appoint any Sub-Registrar or other person in his district to perform, during such absence, all the duties of a Registrar except those mentioned in sections 68 and 72.
When any Sub-Registrar is absent, or when his office is temporarily vacant, any person whom the Registrar of the district appoints in this behalf shall be Sub-Registrar during such absence, or until 2 [the vacancy is filled up].
(2. Subs. by Act 4 of 1914, s. 2 and the Schedule, for “the Local Government fills up the vacancy”)
In section 12, after the word "whom" the words "the Inspector-General of Registration or" shall be inserted.]
[Vide Karnataka Act 32 of 2001, s. 3]
Section 12 of the Principal Act, shall be substituted as follows; namely:--
“12. When any Sub-Registrar is absent, or when his office is temporarily vacant, any person, whom the Inspector-General of Registration appoints in this behalf, shall be Sub-Registrar during such absence or until the vacancy is filled up."
[Vide Maharashtra Act 24 of 2014, s. 5]
(1) 3*** All appointments made under section 10, section 11 or section 12 shall be reported to the 4 [State Government] by the Inspector-General.
(2) Such report shall be either special or general, as the 2 [State Government] directs.
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(3. The words and figure “All appointments made by the Inspector-General under section 6 and” rep. by the A.O. 1937.Earlier these words and figure were ins. by Act 4 of 1914, s. 2 and the Schedule.)
(4. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for “Provincial Government”)
(5. Sub-section (3) rep. by the A.O. 1937.)
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(2) The 2 [State Government] may allow proper establishments for the several offices under this Act.
(2. Subs. by Act 4 of 1914, s. 2 and the Schedule, for “the Local Government fills up the vacancy”.)
(6. Sub-section (1) rep., ibid.)
The several Registrars and Sub-Registrars shall use a seal bearing the following inscription in English and in such other language as the 2 [State Government] directs:—“The seal of the Registrar (or of the Sub-Registrar) of”.
(2. Subs. by Act 4 of 1914, s. 2 and the Schedule, for “the Local Government fills up the vacancy”.)
(1) The 1 [State Government] shall provide for the office of every registering officer the books necessary for the purposes of this Act.
(2) The books so provided shall contain the forms from time to time prescribed by the InspectorGeneral, with the sanction of the 1 [State Government], and the pages of such books shall be consecutively numbered in print, and the number of pages in each book shall be certified on the title-page by the officer by whom such books are issued.
(3) The 1 [State Government] shall supply the office of every Registrar with a fire-proof box, and shall in each district make suitable provision for the safe custody of the records connected with the registration of documents in such district.
(1. Subs. by Act 4 of 1914, s. 2 and the Schedule, for “the Local Government fills up the vacancy”.)
(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 sub-section (5) of that section.]
(2. Ins. by Act 48 of 2001, s. 2 (w.e.f. 24-9-2001)
