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THE REGISTRATION ACT, 1908
(Act No.16 of 1908)
UPDATED UP TO – MAY 18, 2026
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Updated up-to 18.5.2026
THE REGISTRATION ACT, 1908
PART-I
PRELIMINARY
SECTION PARTICULARS PAGE
1. Short title, extent and commencement 1
2. Definitions 1
PART II
OF THE REGISTRATION-ESTABLISHMENT
3. Inspector General of Registration 3
4. Branch Inspector-General of Sindh (Repeal) 4
5. Districts and sub-districts 4
6. Registrars and Sub-Registrars 4
7. Offices of Registrar and Sub-Registrar 4
8. Officers of Registration offices 5
9. Military cantonments may be declared sub-
districts or districts (Repeal)
5
10. Absence of Registrar or vacancy in his office 5
11. Absence of Registrar on duty in his district 6
12. Absence of Sub-Registrar or vacancy in his
office
6
13. Report to State Government of
appointments under sections 10,11 and 12
6
14. Establishments of Registering offices 6
15. Seal of registering officers 7
16. Register, books and fire-proof boxes 7
16A. Keeping of books in computer floppies,
diskettes etc.
7
Part III
OF REGISTRABLE DOCUMENTS
17. Documents of which registration is
compulsory
8
18. Documents of which registration is optional 13
19. Documents in language not understood by
registering officer
14
19A. Refusal to register 14
20. Documents containing interlineations,
blanks, erasures or alterations
14
21. Description of property and maps or plans 15
22. Description of houses and land by reference
to Government maps or surveys
15
22A. Certain documents not to be registered 16
PART IV
OF THE TIME PRESENTATION
23. Time for presenting documents 18
23A. Re-registration of certain documents 18
24. Document executed by several persons at
different times
19
25. Provision where delay in presentation is
unavoidable
20
26. Documents executed out of India 20
27. Wills may be presented or deposited at any
time
20
PART V
OF THE PLACE OF REGISTRATION
28. Place for registering documents relating to
land
21
29. Place for registering other documents 21
30. Registration by Registrars in certain cases 21
31 Registration or acceptance for deposit at
private residence
22
PART VI
OF PRESENTING DOCUMENTS FOR REGISTRATION
32. Persons to present documents for
registration
22
32A. Compulsory affixing of photograph etc 23
33. Power-of-attorney recognizable for
purposes of section 32
24
34. Enquiry before registration by registering
officer
26
35. Procedure on admission and denial of
execution respectively
27
PART VII
OF ENFORCING THE APPEARANCE OF EXECUTANTS
WITNESSES
36. Procedure when appearance of executant or
witness is desired
29
37. Officer or Court to issue and cause service
of summons
29
38. Persons exempt from appearance at
registration office
29
39. Law as to summonses, commissions and
witnesses
30
PART VIII
OF PRESENTING WILLS AND AUTHORITIES
TO ADOPT
40. Persons entitled to present wills and
authorities to adopt
30
41. Registration of wills and authorities to
adopt
31
PART IX
OF THE DEPOSIT OF WILLS
42. Deposit of wills 31
43. Procedure on deposit of wills 31
44. Withdrawal of sealed cover deposited
under section 42
32
45. Proceedings on death of depositor 32
46. Saving of certain enactments and powers of
Courts
32
PART X
OF THE EFFECTS OF REGISTRATION AND NON-
REGISTRATION
47. Time from which registered document
operates
33
48. Registered documents relating to property
when to take effect against oral agreements
33
49. Effect of non-registration of documents
required to be registered
33
50. Certain registered documents relating to
land to take effect against unregistered
documents
34
PART XI
OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF
REGISTERING OFFICERS
(A) As to the Register-books and Indexes
51. Register books to be kept in the several
offices
35
52. Duties of registering officers when
document presented
36
53. Entries to be numbered consecutively 37
54. Current indexes and entries therein 37
55. Indexes to be made by registering officers,
and their contents
37
56. Copy of entries in Indexes No. I,II and III to
be sent by Sub-Registrar and filed
38
57. Registering officers to allow inspection of
certain books and indexes, and to give
certified copies of entries
38
(B) As to the procedure on admitting to registration
58. Particulars to be endorsed on documents
admitted to Registration
39
59. Endorsements to be dated and signed by
registering officer
40
60. Certificate of registration 40
61. Endorsements and certificate to be copied
and document returned
40
62. Procedure on presenting document in
language unknown to registering officer
41
63. Power to administer oaths and record of
substance of statements
41
(C) Special duties of Sub-Registrar
64. Procedure where document relates to land
in several sub-districts
42
65. Procedure where document relates to land
in several districts
42
(D) Special duties of Registrar
66. Procedure after registration of document
relating to land
43
67. [xxx] Deleted 44
(E) Of the controlling powers of Registrar and
Inspector-General.
68. Power of Registrar to superintend and
Control Sub-Registrars
44
69. Power of Inspector-General to superintend
registration offices and make rules
44
70. Power of Inspector-General to remit fines 47
PART XII
OF REFUSAL TO REGISTER
71. Reasons for refusal to register to be recorded 48
72. Appeal to Registrar from orders of Sub-
Registrar refusing registration on ground
other than denial of execution
48
73. Application to Registrar where Sub-
Registrar refuses to register on ground of
denial of execution
49
74. Procedure of Registrar on such application 49
75. Order by Registrar to register and procedure
thereon
50
76. Order of refusal by Registrar 51
77. Suit in case of order of refusal by Registrar 51
PART XIII
OF THE FEES FOR REGISTRATION, SEARCHES
AND COPIES
78. Fees to be fixed by State Government 52
79. Publication of fees 53
80. Fees payable on presentation 53
80-A. Duty of Collector in proceedings under
section 51, 53 or 55 of the Rajasthan Stamp
Act, 1998
53
80-B. Recovery of deficient registration fee as
arrears of Land revenue
54
PART XIV
OF PENALTIES
81. Penalty for incorrectly endorsing, copying,
translating or registering documents with
intent to injure
54
82. Penalty for making false statements,
delivering false copies or translations, false
personation, and abetment
55
82-A. Punishment for failure to send a copy of
order under section 89
55
83. Registering officer may commence
prosecutions
56
84. Registering officers to be deemed public
servants
56
PART XV
MISCELLANEOUS
85. Destruction of unclaimed documents 56
86. Registering officer not liable for thing bona
fide done or refused in his official capacity
57
87. Nothing so done invalidated by defect in
appointment or procedure
57
88. Registration of documents executed by
Government officers or certain public
functionaries
57
89. Copies of certain orders, certificates and
instruments to be sent to registering officers
and filed
58
89A. Power of State Government to make rules 61
Exemptions from Act
90. Exemption of certain documents executed
by or in favour of Government
61
91. Inspection and copies of such documents 62
92. Repeals 63
93. Repeals 63
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Updated upto 18.5.2026
THE REGISTRATION ACT, 1908
1(Act No. 16 of 1908)
(18th December, 1908)
An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to
the Registration of Documents.
Whereas it is expedient to consolidate the
enactment relating to the registration of documents; It
is hereby enacted as follows:
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title, extent and commencement.-(1)
This Act may be called the 2[xxx] Registration Act, 1908.
3[(2) It extends to the whole of India [4xxx]:
Provided that the State Government may exclude
any districts or tracts of copuntry from its operation.]
(3) It shall come into force on the first day of
January, 1909.
2. Definitions.- In this Act, unless there is
anything repugnant in the subject or context,-
(1) “addition” means the place of residence,
and the profession, trade, rank and title (if any)
of a person described, and in the case of
5[anIndian]6[xxx] his father‟s name, or where he
1. It has been amended in its application to West Bengal by Ben. Act No. 5 of 1942 and
West Ben. Acts 29 of 1950 and 31 of 1951; to Bombay by Bombay Acts 5 of 1929, 17 of
1930, 18 of 1933, 24 of 1938, 14 of 1939 and 10 of 1942; to the C.P. by C. P. Act I of 1937
and M. P. Act 8 of 1955, to Madras and Andhra by Madras Acts3 of 1936 and 17 of
1952; to Orissa by Orissa Act 3 of 1933; to the Punjab Act 8 of 1941 and to Bihar by
Bihar Acts 14 of 1947 and 24 of 1952.
2. The word”Indian” omitted by the Indian Registration (Amendment) Act, 1969, Sec.
2 (w.e.f. 26.12.1969)
3. Substitued by Act 3 of 1951, S. 3 and Sch. (w.e.f. 01.04.1951)
4. Deleted by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganiation Act, 2019 (Act No. 34 of 2019)
Dated 31.10.2019
5. Substitued by the A.O. 1950 for “ a Native of India” (w.e.f. 26.01.1950)
6. The words is caste” (if any) and” omitted by Act 17 of 1956.s 2(w.e.f. 6.4.1956)
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is usually described as the son of his
mother, then his mother‟s name;
(2) “book“ includes a portion of a book and
also any number of sheets connected
together with a view of forming a book or
portion of a book;
(3) “district” and “sub-district” respectively
mean a district and sub-district formed
under this Act;
(4) “District Court” includes the High Court in
its ordinary original civil jurisdiction;
(5) “endorsement” and “endorsed” include
and apply to an entry in writing by a
registering officer on a rider or covering slip
to any document tendered for registration
under this Act;
(6) “immovable property” includes land,
buildings, hereditary allowances, rights to
ways, lights, ferries, fisheries or any other
benefit to arise out of land, and things
attached to the earth or permanently
fastened to anything which is attached to
the earth, but not standing timber, growing
crops nor grass;
1[(6A) “India” means the territory of India 2(xxx);]
(7) “lease” includes a counterpart, kabuliyat,
an undertaking to cultivate or occupy and
agreement to lease;
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1. Inserted by Act No. 3 of 1951 Sec. 3 and Sch. (w.e.f. 1.4.1951)
2. Deleted by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganiation Act, 2019 (Act No. 34 of 2019) Dated
31.10.2019
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(8) “minor” means a person who, according to
the personal law to which he is subject, has
not attained majority;
(9) “movable property” includes standing
timber, growing crops and grass, fruit
upon and juice in trees, and property of
every other description, except immovable
property; and
(10) “representative” includes the guardian of a
minor and the committee or other legal
curator of a lunatic or idiot.
(11) 1[xxx]
PART II
OF THE REGISTRATION-ESTABLISHMENT
3. Inspector General of Registration.-(1) 2[the
State Government] shall appoint an officer to be the
Inspector-General of Registration for the territories
subject to such Government :
Provided that the 3[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 4[State
Government] appoints in this behalf.
(2) Any Inspector-General may hold
simultaneously any other office under the
5[Government].
1. Clause (11) inserted by the A.O. 1950, Omitted by Act 3 of 1951 s. 3 and Sch. (W.e.f. 1.4.1951)
2. Substituted by the A.O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
3. Substituted by the A.O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
4. Substituted by the A.O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
5. Substituted by the A.O. for “Crown”.
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4. Branch Inspector-General of Sindh.- [Rep. by
the A. O. I orders 1937]
5. Districts and sub-districts.-(1) Forpurposes
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
alteration of such limits, shall be notified in the
2[Official Gazette.]
(3) Every such alteration shall take effect on such
day after the date of the notification as is therein
mentioned.
6. Registrars and Sub-Registrars.- The 3[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.
4[xxx]
7. Offices of Registrar and Sub-Registrar.-(1) The
5[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 6[State Government] may amalgamate with
any office of a Registrar any office of a Sub-Registrar
subordinate to such Registrar, and may authorize any
Sub-Registrar whose office has been so amalgamated
________________________________________________
1. . Substituted by the A.O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.
2. Substituted by the A.O. 1937 for Local “Official Gazette”
3. Substituted by the A.O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
4. Proviso omitted by the A.O. 1937.
5. Substituted by the A.O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
6. Substituted by the A.O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
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to exercise and perform, in addition to his own powers
and duties, all or any of the powers and duties of the
Registrar to whom he is subordinate:
Provided that no such authorization shall enable
a Sub-Registrar to hear an appeal against an order
passed by himself under this Act.
1[8. Officers of Registration offices.- (1) The State
Government may also appoint officers as may be
designated from time to time and may prescribe the
duties of such officers.
(2) Every such officer shall be subordinate to the
Inspector Gereral.]
9. [Military cantonments may be declared sub
districts or districts.] Rep. by the Repealing and
Amending Act, 1927 (10 of 1927), s.3 and Sch II.
10. Absence of Registrar or vacancy in his office .-
(1) When any Registrar, other than the Registrar of a
district including a presidencytown, 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 2[State Government] fills up the vacancy.
(2) When the Registrar of adistrict including a
presidency-town is absent otherwise than on duty in
his district, or whenhis office is temporarily vacant, any
1. Substituted by the Registration(Rajasthan Amendment) Act. 1982, Act No. II of 1982 w.e.f.
16.7.1982
2. Substituted by A.O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
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person whom the Inspector-General appoints in this
behalf shall be the Registrar during such absence, or
until the 1[State Government] fills up the vacancy.
11. Absence of Registrar on duty in his district.-
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.
12. Absence of Sub-Registrar or vacancy in his
office .- When any Sub-registrar is absent, or when his
office is temporarily vacant, any person whom the
2[Inspector General of Registration] appoints in this
behalf shall be sub-Registrar during such absence, or
until 3[the vacancy is filled up.]
13. Report to 4[State Government] of appointments
under sections 10,11 and 12 .-
(1)5[xxx] All appointments made under section 10,
section 11 or section 12 shall be reported to the 6[State
Government] by the Inspector-General.]
(2) Such report shall be either special or general as
the 7[State Government] directs.
8(3) [xxx]
14. Establishments of Registering offices.- (1)
9[xxx]
(2) The 10[State Government] may allow proper
establishments for the several offices under this Act.
1. Substituted by A.O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
2. Substituted by the egistration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act No. 1 of 2025 w. e. f. . For “Registrar of the
district” w.e.f. 02.12.2025
3. Substituted by Act 4 of 1914, s. 2 and Sh. I for “the Local Government fills up the vacancy”
4. Substituted by A.O.1950 for “Provincial Government.”
5. Omitted by the A.O. 1937.
6. Substituted by A.O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
7. Substituted by A.O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
8. Omitted by the A.O. 1937
9. Omitted by the A.O. 1937
10. Substituted by A.O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
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15. Seal of registering officers.-The several
Registrars and Sub-Registrars shall use a seal bearing
the following inscription in English and in such other
language as the 1[State Government] directs:-- “The seal
of the Registrar (or of the sub-registrar) of.”
16. Register, books and fire-proof boxes.- (1)
The2[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 Inspector-General
with the sanction of the 3[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 4[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.
[
5[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.
1. Substituted by A.O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
2. Substituted by A.O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
3. Substituted by A.O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
4. Substituted by A.O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
5. Inserted by The Registration and other releated laws (Amendment) Act, 2000.( Act 48 of
2001),
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(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act
or in any other law for the time being in force, a copy or
extracts from the book 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.]
Part III
OF REGISTRABLE DOCUMENTS
17.Documents of which registration is
compulsory.- (1) The following documents shall be
registered, if the property to which they relate is situate
in a district in which, and if they have been executed on
or after the date on which, Act No. XVI of 1864, or the
Indian Registration Act, 1866 (XX of 1866) or the Indian
Registration Act, 1871, (VIII of 1871) or the Indian
Registration Act, 1877, (III of 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;
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1[(d) leases of immovable property for any term;]
2[(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 one hundred rupees and
upwards, to or in immovable property;]
3[(f) agreement to sell immovable property
whether possession whereof has been or is
handed over or not to the purported
purchaser;]
4[(g) irrevocable power of attorney relating to
transfer of immovable property in any way;]
5[(h) agreement or any other document relating
to the deposit of title deeds or instruments
constituting or being evidence of the title to
any immovable property, where such
deposit has been made by way of security
for the repayment of money advanced or to
be advanced by way of loan or an existing
or future debt;
(i) sale certificate issued by any competent
officer or authority under the Central Act or
the State Act for the time being in force;
[[[[
1. Substituted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
2. Ins. by Act 18 of 1929, s.10.
3. Substituted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 w. e. f.02.12.2025
4. Inserted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act 18 of 1989 w. e. f. 18.9.1989
5. Added by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 w. e. f. 02.12.2025
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(j) agreement relating to giving authority or
power to a promoter or a developer, by
whatever name called, for construction on,
or
development of, or sale or transfer (in any
manner whatsoever) of, any immovable
property;
(k) power of attorney authorizing to transfer
immovable property with or without
consideration;
(l) Concession agreement as defined in
Rajasthan Stamp Act, 1998 (Rajasthan Act
No. 14 of 1999);
(m) any other instrument required by any law,
for the time being in force, to be registered:]
Provided that the 1[State Government] may, by
order published in the 2[(Official Gazette)], exempt
from the operation of this sub-section any leases
executed in any district, or part of a district, the terms
granted by which do not exceed five years and the
annual rents reserved by which do not exceed fifty
rupees.
3[(1A) The documents containing contracts to
transfer for consideration, any immovable property for
the purpose of section 53A of the Transfer of Property
Act, 1882 (Act No. 4 of 1882), shall be registered if they
have been executed on or after the commencement of
the Registration and Other Related laws (Amendement)
Act, 2001, and if such documents are not registered on
or after such commencement, then, they shall have no
effect for the purposes of the said section 53A.]
1. Substituted by A.O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
2. Substituted by the A. O. 1951, for “Local Official Gazette”
3. Inserted by Act 48 of 2001, sec. 3 (a) (w. e. f. 24.9.2001) the Registration and Other Related
Laws (Amendment) Act, 2001.
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(2) Nothing in clauses (b) and (c) of sub-section (1)
applies to -
(i) any composition deed; or
(ii)any instrument relating to shares in a joint-stock
company, notwithstanding that the assets of
such company consist in whole or in part of
immovable property; or
(iii) any debenture issued by any such company and
not creating, declaring,assigning, limiting or
extinguishing any right, title or interest, to or
in immovable property except in so far as it
entitles the holder to the security afforded by a
registered instrument whereby the company
has mortgaged, conveyed or otherwise
transferred the whole or part of its immovable
property or any interest therein to trustees
upon trust for the benefit of the holders of
such debentures; or
(iv)any endorsement upon or transfer of any
debenture issued by any such company; or
(v) 1[any document other than the documents
specified in sub-section (IA) not itself creating,
declaring, assigning, limiting or extinguishing
any right, title or interest of the value of one
hundred rupees and upwards to or in
immovable property, but merely creating a
right to obtain another document which will
when executed, create, declare assign, limit or
extinguish any such right, title or interest; or
(vi) any decree or order of a Court 2[except a decree
or order expressed to be made on a compromise
1. Substituted by Act 48 of 2001, sec. 3 (a) (w.e.f. 24.9.2001) the Registration and Other
Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2001.
2. Substituted by Act No. 21 of 1929, 10, “and any award”
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and comprising immovable property other
than that which is the subject-matter of the
suit or proceeding]; or
(vii) any grant of immovable property by the
1[Government;] or
(viii) any instrument of partition made by a
Revenue Officer; or
(ix) any order granting a loan or instrument of
collateral security granted under the Land
Improvement Act, 1871, (XXVI of 1871) or the
Land Improvement Loans Act, 1883 (XIX of
1883); or
(x) any order granting a loan under the
Agriculturists Loan Act, 1884, (XII of 1884) or
instrument for securing the repayment of a loan
made under that Act; or
2[(xa) any order made under the Charitable
Endowments Act, 1890 (VI of, 1890) vesting any
property in a Treasurer of Charitable
Endowments or divesting any such Treasurer
of any property, or]
(xi) any endorsement on a mortgage-deed
acknowledging the payment of the whole or
any part of the mortgage-money, and any other
receipt for payment of money due under a
mortgage when the receipt does not purport to
extinguish the mortgage; or
(xii) 3[xxx] Deleted
1. Sub. By the A. O. 1950 for “Crown”
2. Inserted by Act 39 of 1948, s. 2 (w. e.f. 3.9.1948)
3. Deleted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025
)w. e. f. 02.12.2025
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1[(xiii) any instrument referred to in 2{sub-section (6)
of section 89}]
Explanation: 3[xxx]
4[(3) Authorities to adopt a son or a daughter and
not conferred by a Will, shall also be registered.
18. Documents of which registration is optional.- Any
of the following documents may be registered under this
Act, namely :-
(a) instruments (other than instruments of gift and
wills) 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 a value less
than one hundred rupees, to or in immovable
property;
(b) instruments acknowledging the receipt or
payment of any consideration on account of
the creation, declaration, assignment,
limitation or extinction of any such right, title
or interest;
(c) 5[***] leases exempted under section 17;
6[(cc) 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 a value less than one hundred
rupees, to or in immovable property;]
1. Inserted by Act No. 16 of 1976, sec. 2 (w. e. f. 13.2.1976
2. Substituted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f.
02.12.2025
3. Omitted by Act No. 18 of 1989 sec. 2 (18.9.1989)
4. Substituted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f.
02.12.2025
5. Deleted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f.
02.12.2025
6. Inserted by Act 33 of 1940, s. 2.
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(d) instruments (other than wills) which purport
or operate to create, declare, assign, limit or
extinguish any right, title or interest to or in
movable property;
(e) wills; and
(f) all other documents not required by section 17
to be registered.
19. Documents in language not understood by
registering officer.- If any document duly presented for
registration be in a language which the registering
officer does not understand, and which is not
commonly used in the district, he shall refuse to
register the document, unless it be accompanied by
1[two copies of the true translation] into a language
commonly used in the district and also by a true copy.
2[19-A. Refusal to register.- Notwithstanding
anything contained in this Act, the Registering officer
shall refuse to register any document presented to him
for registration unless such document is accompanied
by a true or photostate copy thereof.]
20. Documents containing interlineations, blanks,
erasures or alterations .- (1) The registering officer may
in his discretion refuse to accept for registration any
document in which any interlination, blank, erasure or
alteration appears, unless the persons executing the
document attest with their signatures or initials such
interlineation, blank, erasure or alteration.
(2) if the registering officer registers any such
document, he shall, at the time of registering the same,
1. Substituted by The Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act No. 11 of 1982, (w.e.f.
16.7.1982)
2. Inserted by The Rajasthan (Rajasthan Amendment) Act No. 11 of 1982, (w.e.f. 16.7.1982)
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make a note in the register of such interlineation, blank,
erasure or alteration.
21. Description of property and maps or plans.- (1)
No non-testamentary document relating to immovable
property shall be accepted for registration unless it
contains a description of such property sufficient to
identify the same.
(2) Houses in towns shall be described as situate on
the north or other side of the street or road (which
should be specified) to which they front, and by their
existing and former occupancies, and by their numbers
if the houses in such street or road are numbered.
(3) Other houses and lands shall be described by
their name, if any, and as being in the territorial
division in which they are situate, and by their
superficial contents, the roads and other properties on
which they abut, and their existing occupancies, and
also, whenever it is practicable, by reference to a
Government map or survey.
(4) No non-testamentary document containing in a
map or plan of any property comprised therein shall be
accepted for registration unless it is accompanied by a
true copy of the map or plan, or, in case such property
is situate in several districts, by such number of true
copies of the map or plan as are equal to the number of
such districts.
22. Description of houses and land by reference to
Government maps or surveys.- (1) Where it is, in the
opinion of the 1[State Government] practicable to describe
houses, not being houses in towns, and lands by reference
to a Government map or survey, the 2[State Government]
1.Substituted by the A. O. 1950, for “Provincial government “
2.Substituted by the A. O. 1950, for “Provincial government “
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may, by rule made under this Act, require that such
houses, and lands as aforesaid shall, for the purposes of
section 21, be so described.
(2) Save as otherwise provided by any rule made
under sub-section (1), failure or comply with the
provisions of section 21, sub-section (2) or sub-section
(3), shall not disentitle a document to be registered if
the description of the property to which it relates is
sufficient to identify that property.
1[22A. Certain documents not to be registered.-
Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act or any
other law for the time being in force, the registering
officer shall not register-
(a) An instrument relating to transaction which is
prohibited by any Central Act or State Act for
the time being in force;
(b) an instrument of sale, gift, bequest,
usufructuary mortgage, letting or sub-letting
or exchange of agriculture land belonging to a
member of Scheduled Castes or Scheduled
Tribes unless a certificate issued by the
competent authority to the effect that the
transferee belongs to Scheduled Castes or
Scheduled Tribes, as the case may be, is
produced before the registering officer;
(c) an instrument of transfer of any interest in any
land or part thereof situated within the area
notified under section 3 of the Criminal Law
(Amendment) Act, 1961 (Central Act No. 23 of
1961) unless the transferee proves to the
satisfaction of the registering officer that he is
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f. 02.12.2025
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2. entitled to enter or remain in such area
without obtaining permit in accordance with
the provisions of the Criminal Law
(Amendment) Act, 1961 (Central Act No. 23 of
1961);
(d) an instrument of transfer of immovable
property owned by the Central Government
or the State Government or a Municipality or
a Panchayati Raj Institution or any other body
or authority established by a statute of the
Central or State Legislature unless a letter of
competent officer requesting registration is
produced before the registering officer;
Explanation.- For the purposes of this
clause “competent officer” means the officer
duly empowered to execute the instruments
referred to in this clause;
(e) an instrument of transfer of any land or part
thereof, in relation to which acquisition
proceedings have been initiated under the
Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency
in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and
Resettlement Act, 2013 (Act No. 30 of 2013),
unless the instrument is accompanied by,
permission for such transfer obtained under
section 5 of the Rajasthan Lands (Restrictions
on Transfer) Act, 1976 (Act No. 27 of 1976) or,
by an affidavit of the transferor to the effect
that the land is not affected by the provisions
of section 4 of the said Act;
(f) an instrument of mortgage or charge, or an
instrument of transfer by way of sale, gift,
exchange or otherwise, of any immovable
property of a minor or any instrument of lease
of any immovable property of a minor if such
lease extends beyond five years or one year
from the date of attaining majority by the
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minor, unless the instrument is accompanied
by the permission of the competent court
given under the provisions of the Hindu
Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 (Central
Act No. 32 of 1956) or, as the case may be, the
Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 (Central Act
No. 8 of 1890) or it is proved to the satisfaction
of registering officer that such pemission is not
required; and
(g) an instrument of transfer of any right or
interest in a land situated in colonisation area,
except in the cases exempted in sub-section (1)
of section 13 of the Rajasthan Colonisation
Act, 1954 (Act No. 27 of 1954), unless the
instrument is accompanied by the consent of
the State Government.]
PART IV
OF THE TIME PRESENTATION
23. Time for presenting documents.- Subject to the
provisions contained in sections 24, 25 and 26, no
document other than a will shall be accepted for
registration unless presented for that purpose to the
proper officer within four months from the date of its
execution:
Provided that a copy of decree or order may be
presented within four months from the day on which
the decree or order was made, or, where it is
appealable, within four months from the day on which
it becomes final.
1[23A. Re-registration of certain documents.-
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
this Act, if in any case adocument requiring registration
1. Inserted by Act 15 of 1917, s. 2
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has been accepted for registration by a Registrar or Sub-
Registrar from a person not duly empowered to present
the same, and has been registered, any person claiming
under such document may, within four months from
his first becoming aware that the registration of such
document is invalid, present such document or cause
the same to be presented in accordance with
theprovisions of Part VI for re-registration in the office
of the Registrar of the district in which the document
was originally registered; and upon the Registrar being
satisfied that the document was so accepted for
registration from a person not duly empowered to
present the same, he shall proceed to the re-registration
of the document as if it had not been previously
registered, and as if such presentation for re-
registration was a presentation for registration made
within the time allowed therefore under Part IV, and all
the provisions of this Act, as to registration of
documents shall apply to such re-registration; and such
document, if duly re-registered in accordance with the
provisions of this section, shall be deemed to have been
duly registered for all purposes from the date of its
original registration:
Provided that, within three months from the twelfth
day of September, 1917, any person claiming under a
document to which this section applies may present the
same or cause the same to be presented for re-
registration in accordance with this section, whatever
may have been the time when he first became aware
that the registration of the document was invalid.]
24. Document executed by several persons at
different times.-Where there are several persons
executing a document at different times, such
document may be presented for registration and re-
registration within four months from the date of each
execution.
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25. Provision where delay in presentation is
unavoidable.-(1) If, owing to urgent necessity or
unavoidable accident, any document executed, or copy
of a decree or order made, in 1[India] is not presented
for registration, till after the expiration of the time
hereinbefore prescribed in that behalf, the 2[Registering
Officer,] in cases where the delay in presentation does
not exceed four months, may 3[register the document],
on payment of a fine not exceeding ten times the
amount of the proper registration-fee,4[on such
document.]
(2) 5[xxx} Omitted
26. Documents executed out of India.- When a
document purporting to have been executed by all or
any of the parties out of 6[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 in 7[India]
may, on payment of the proper registration-fee, accept
such document for registration.
27. Wills may be presented or deposited at any
time.- A will may at any time be presented for
registration or deposited in manner hereinafter
provided.
1. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 of Sch, for “the State” (w.e.f. 1.4.1951).
2. Substituted by Act 18 of 1989, sec. 3(w.e.f. 18.9.1989), for the “Registrar”, direct that” and such
document shall be accepted for registration” respectively.
3. Substituted by Act 18 of 1989, sec. 3(w.e.f. 18.9.1989), for the Registrar”, “direct that” and
“such document shall be accepted for registration” respectively.
4. Substituted by Act 18 of 1989, sec. 3 (w.e.f. 18.9.1989), for the “Registrar”, “direct that” and
“document shall be accepted for registration” respectively.
5. Omitted by Act 18 of 1989 (w.e.f. 18.9.1989)
6. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 of Sch, for “the State” (w.e.f. 1.4.1951).
7. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 of Sch, for “the State” (w.e.f. 1.4.1951).
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PART V
OF THE PLACE OF REGISTRATION
28. Place for registering documents relating to
land.- Save as in this part otherwise provided, every
document mentioned in section 17, 1[sub-section (1),
clause (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k) and (l),
section 17], sub-section (2), in so far as such document
affects immovable property,and section 18, clauses (a),
(b), 2[(c) and (cc),] shall be presented for registration in
the office of a Sub-Registrar within whose sub-district
the whole or some portion of the property to which
such document relates, is situate.
29. Place for registering other documents.- (1)
Every document 3[not being a document referred to in
section 28 or a copy of a decree or order,] may be
presented for registration either in the office of Sub-
registrar in whose sub-district the document was
executed, or in the office of any other Sub-Registrar
under the 4[State Government] at which all the persons
executing and claiming under the document desire the
same to be registered.
(2) A copy of decree or order may be presented for
registration in the office of the Sub-Registrar in whose
sub-district the original decree or order was made, or,
where the decree or order does not affect immovable
property, in the office of any other Sub-Registrar under
the 5[State Government] at which all the persons
claiming under the decree or order desire the copy to be
registered.
30. Registration by Registrars in certain cases.-6[xxx]
Any Registrar may in his discretion receive and register
1. Substitutedby the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
2. Substituted by Act 33 of 1940, s. 3 for “and and (c)”
3. Substituted by Act 33 of 1940, s. 3 and Sch. II, for “other than document referred to in s. 28, and
a copy of a decree or order”.
4. Substituted by the A. O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
5. Substituted by the A. O. 1950 for “Provincial Government.”
6. Omitted by Act 18 of 1989 the brackets and figure “(1”) and “(2)”.
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any document which might be registered by any Sub-
Registrar subordinate to him.
(2) 1[xxx] Omitted
31. Registration or acceptance for deposit at private
residence.- In ordinary cases the registration or deposit
of documents under this Act shall be made only at the
office of the officer authorized to accept the same for
registration or deposit:
Provided that such officer may on special cause
being shown attend at the residence of any person
desiring to present a document for registration or to
deposit a will, and accept for registration or deposit
such document or will.
PART VI
OF PRESENTING DOCUMENTS FOR
REGISTRATION
2[32. Persons to present documents for registration.-
Except in the cases mentioned in section 31, 88 and 89,
or when the document is presented by electronic
means, every document to be registered under this Act,
whether such registration be compulsory or optional,
shall be presented at the proper registration office, in
the manner as may be prescribed,-
(a) by the person executing or claiming under
the same, or, in the case of a copy of a decree
or order, by a person claiming under the
decree or order; or
(b) by the representative or assignee of such a
person; or
1. Ommitted by Act 18 of 1989 the brackets and figure “(1) and “(2)”
2. Substituted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025…
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(c) by the agent of such a person, representative
or assignee, duly authorized by power of
attorney executed and authenticated in the
manner hereinafter mentioned.]
1[32A. Compulsory affixing of photograph etc.-
(1) Every person presenting any document at the
proper registration office under section 32 shall affix in
the document his passport size colour photograph or
get photographed by digital camera and affix thumb
impression by manual or by biometric device in the
document and both executants and claimant shall sign
in the document, if such document falls in the
following category, namely:-
(a) agreement to sell immovable property
including developer‟s or promoter‟s
agreement by whatever name called, for
development of any property or construction
of structure;
(b) concession agreement;
(c) conveyance;
(d) exchange;
(e) gift;
(f) lease including transfer of lease by way of
assignment and surrender of lease;
(g) leave and licence;
(h) mortgage;
(i) partition;
(j) release;
(k) settlement;
(l) trust;
(m) power of attorney.
(2) The passport size photograph and thumb
impression of each executant and claimant shall also be
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affixed to the document referred to in sub-section (1).
(3) The State Government shall notify the order for
taking photographs of identifying witnesses before the
registering officer.]
33. Power-of-attorney recognizable for purposes of
section 32.- (1) For the purposes of section 32, the
following power-of-attorney shall alone be recognized,
namely:-
(a) if the principal at the time of executing the
power-of-attorney resides in any part of 1[india]
in which this Act is for the time being in force, a
power-of-attorney executed before and
authenticated by the Registrar or Sub-Registrar
within whose district or sub-district the principal
resides;
(b) if the principal at the time aforesaid 2[resides in
any part of India in which this Act is not in
force], a power-of-attorney executed before and
authenticated by any Magistrate;
(c) if the principal at the time aforesaid does not
reside in 3[India], a power-of-attorney executed
before and authenticated by a Notary Public, or
any Court, Judge, Magistrate, 4[Indian] Consul
or Vice-Counsul, or representative 5[xxx] of the
Central Government:
Provided that the following persons shall not be
required to attend at any registration-office or Court for
1. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and Sch. For “the State” (w.e.f. 1.4.1951)
2. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, sec. 3 and Sch. ibid., for “resides in any other part of
the State” (w.e.f. 1.4.1951)
3. Substituted by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and Sch. For “the State” (w.e.f. 1.4.1951)
4. Substituted by the A.O. 1950 for “British”.
5. The words “of His Majesty or” Omitted, ibid
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the purpose of executing any such power-of-attorney
as is mentioned in clauses (a) and (b) of this section,
namely:-
(i) persons who by reason of bodily infirmity are
unable without risk or serious inconvenience so to
attend;
(ii) persons who are in jail under civil or criminal
process; and
(iii) persons exempt by law from personal appearance
in Court.
1[Explanation.- In this sub-section “India” means
India, as defined in clause (28) of section 3 of the
General Clauses Act, 1897, (10 of 1897).]
(2) In the case of every such person the Registrar or
Sub-Registrar or Magistrate, as the case may be, if
satisfied that the power-of-attorney has been
voluntarily executed by the person purporting to be the
principal, may attest the same without requiring his
personal attendance at the office or Court aforesaid.
(3) To obtain evidence as to the voluntary nature of
the execution, the Registrar or Sub-Registrar or
Magistrate may either himself go to the house of the
person purporting to be the principal, or to the jail in
which he is confined, and examine him, or issue a
commission for his examination.
(4) Any power-of-attorney mentioned in this section
2[shall be proved] by the production of it without further
proof when it purports on the face of it to have been
1. Inserted by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and Sch. (w.e.f. 1.4.1951)
2. Substituted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
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executed before and authenticated by the person or
Court hereinbefore mentioned in that behalf.
1[Provided that a proof to the effect that the person
executing the power of attorney is alive shall be
produced.]
34. Enquiry before registration by registering
officer.- (1) Subject to the provisions contained in this
Part and in sections 41, 43, 45, 69, 75, 77, 88 and 89 no
document shall be registered under this Act, unless the
persons executing such document, or their
representatives, assigns or agents authorized as
aforesaid, appear before the registering officer within
the time allowed for presentation under sections 23, 24,
25, and 26:
Provided that, if owing to urgent necessity or
unavoidable accident all such persons do not so appear,
the Registrar, in cases where the delay in appearing
does not exceed four months, may direct that on
payment of a fine not exceeding ten times the amount
of the proper registration fee, in addition to the fine, if
any, payable under section 25, the document may be
registered.
2[Provided further that, when such document is
presented by electronic means, the personal appearance
shall not be required.]
(2) Appearances under sub-section (1) may be
simultaneous or at different times.
(3) The registering officer shall thereupon-
(a) enquire whether or not such document was
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executed by the persons by whom it purports
to have been executed;
(b) satisfy himself as to the identity of the
persons appearing before him and alleging
that they have executed the document; and
(c) in the case of any person appearing as a
representative, assign or agent, satisfy
himself of the right of such person so to
appear.
1[Provided that, when such document is presented by
electronic means, the enquiry shall be done as per the
rules made in this behalf.]
(4) Any application for a direction under 2[first
proviso to]sub-section (1) may be lodged with a Sub-
Registrar, who shall forthwith forward it to the
Registrar to whom he is subordinate.
(5) Nothing in this section applies to copies of
decrees or orders.
35. Procedure on admission and denial of
execution respectively.- (1) (a) If all the persons
executing the document appear personally, 3[or
through electronic means, as the case may be] before
the registering officer and are personally known to him,
or if he be otherwise satisfied that they are the persons
they represent themselves to be, and if they all admit
the execution of the document,or
(b) if in the case of any person appearing by a
representative, assign or agent, such representa-
tive,assign or agent admit the execution, or
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(c) if the person executing the document is dead,
and his representative or assign appears before the
registering officer and admits the execution,
the registering officer shall register the document
as directed in sections 58 to 61, inclusive.
(2) The registering officer may, in order to satisfy
himself that the persons appearing before him are the
persons they represent themselves to be, or for any
other purpose contemplated by this Act, examine any
one present in his office.
1[Provided that when such document is presented
by electronic means, the procedure laid down by the
rules made in this behalf shall be followed for the
examination of person.]
(3) (a) If any person by whom the document
purports to be executed denies its execution, or
(b) if any such person appears to the registering
officer to be a minor, an idiot or a lunatic, or
(c) if any person by whom the document purports
to be executed is dead, and his representative or assign
denies its execution, 2[or]
3[(d) on such circumstances and such documents as
may be prescribed,]
the registering officer shall refuse to register the
document as to the person so denying, appearing or
dead:
Provided that, where suchofficer is a Registrar, he shall
follow the procedure prescribed in Part XII:
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1[Provided further that the 2[State Government]
may, by notification in the 3[Official Gazette], declare
that any Sub-Registrar named in the notification shall,
in respect of documents the execution of which is
denied, be deemed to be a Registrar for the purposes of
this sub-section and of Part XII.]
PART VII
OF ENFORCING THE APPEARANCE OF
EXECUTANTS WITNESSES
36. Procedure when appearance of executant or
witness is desired.- If any person presenting any
document for registration or claiming under any
document, which is capable of being so presented,
desires the appearance of any person whose presence
or testimony is necessary for the registration of such
document, the registering officer may, in his discretion
call upon such officer or Court as the 4[State
Government] directs in this behalf to issue a summons
requiring him to appear at the registration office, either
in person or by duly authorized agent, as in the
summons may be mentioned, and at a time named
therein.
37. Officer or Court to issue and cause service of
summons.- The officer or Court, upon receipt of the
peon‟s fee payable in such cases, shall issue the
summons accordingly, and cause it to be served upon
the person whose appearance is so required.
38. Persons exempt from appearance at registration
office.- (1) (a) A person who by reason of bodily
infirmity is unable without risk or serious
inconvenience to appear at the registration office, or
1. Inserted by Act 13 of 1926, s. 2.
2. Substituted by the A. O. 1950 for “Provincial Government”
3. Substituted by the A. O. 1937 for “Local Official Gazette”
4. Substituted by the A. O. 1950 for “Provincial Government
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(b) a person in jail under civil or criminal process, or
(c) persons exempt by law from personal
appearance in Court, and who would but for the
provision 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.
39. Law as to summonses, commissions and
witnesses.- The law in force for the time being as to
summons, commissions and compelling the attendance
of witnesses, and for their remuneration in suits before
Civil Courts, shall, save as aforesaid and mutatis
mutandis, apply to any summons or commission issued
and any person summoned to appear under the
provisions of this Act.
PART VIII
OF PRESENTING WILLS AND AUTHORITIES
TO ADOPT
40. Persons entitled to present wills and
authorities to adopt.- (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.
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41. Registration of wills and authorities to adopt.-
(1) A will or an authority to adopt, presented for
registration by the testator or donor, may be registered
in the same manner as any other document.
(2) A will or authority to adopt presented for
registration by any other person entitled to present it
shall be registered if the registering officer is satisfied-
(a) that the will or authority was executed by the
testator or donor, as the case may be;
(b) that the testator or donor is dead; and
(c) that the person presenting the will or authority
is, under section 40, entitled to present the same.
PART IX
OF THE DEPOSIT OF WILLS
42. Deposit of wills.- Any testator may, either
personally or by duly authorized agent, deposit with
any Registrar his will in a sealed cover superscribed
with the name of the testator and that of his agent (if
any) and with a statement of the nature of the
document.
43. Procedure on deposit of wills.- (1) On receiving
such cover, the Registrar, if satisfied that the person
presenting the same for deposit is the testator or his
agent, shall transcribe in his Register-book No. 5 the
superscription aforesaid, and shall note in the same book
and on the said cover the year, month, day and hour of
such presentation and receipt, and the names of any
persons who may testify to the identity of the testator or
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his agent, and any legible inscription which may be on
the seal of the cover.
(2) The Registrar shall then place and retain the
sealed cover in his fire-proof box.
44. Withdrawal of sealed cover deposited under
section 42.- If the testator who has deposited such cover
wishes to withdraw it, he may apply, either personally
or by duly authorized agent, to the Registrar who holds
it in deposit, and such Registrar, if satisfied that the
applicant is actually the testator or his agent, shall
deliver the cover accordingly.
45. Proceedings on death of depositor.- (1) If on the
death of a testator who has deposited a sealed cover
under section 42, application be made to the Registrar
who holds it in deposit to open the same, and if the
Registrar is satisfied that the testator is dead, he shall,
in the applicant‟s presence, open the cover, and, at the
applicant‟s expense, cause the contents thereof to be
copied into his Book No. 3.
(2) When such copy has been made, the Registrar
shall re-deposit the original will.
46. Saving of certain enactments and powers of
Courts.-(1) Nothing hereinbefore contained shall affect
the provisionsof section 259of 1[The Indian Succession
Act, 1865 (10 of 1865)], or of section 81 of the 2[Probate
and Administration Act, 1881 (5of 1881)] or the power
of any Court by order to compel the production of any
will.
(2) When any such order is made, the Registrar shall,
unless the will has been already copied under section 45,
1. Sec. now the Indian Succession Act, 1925 (39 of 1925)
2. Sec. now the Indian Succession Act, 1925 (39 of 1925)
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open the cover and cause the will to be copied into his
Book No. 3 and make a note on such copy that the
original has been removed into Court in pursuance of
the order aforesaid.
PART X
OF THE EFFECTS OF REGISTRATION AND
NON-REGISTRATION
47. Time from which registered document
operates.- A registered document shall operate from
the time from which it would have commenced to
operate if no registration thereof had been required or
made, and not from the time of its registration.
48. Registered documents relating to property
when to take effect against oral agreements.- All non-
testamentary documents duly registered under this Act,
and relating to any property, whether movable or
immovable, shall take effect against any oral agreement
or declaration relating to such property, unless where
the agreement or declaration has been accompanied or
followed by delivery of possession 1[and the same
constitutes a valid transfer under any law for the time
being in force:
Provided that a mortgage by deposit of title deeds
as defined in section 58 of the Transfer of Property Act,
1882, (4 of 1882) shall take effect against any mortgage-
deed subsequently executed and registered which
relates to the same property.]
49. Effect of non-registration of documents
required to be registered.- No document required by
section 17 1[or any provision of the Transfer of Property
Act, 1882 (Act No. 4 of 1882)] 2[or any other law for
1. Added by Act 21 of 1929, s. 10.
2. Inserted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
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the time being in force] to be registered shall-
(a) affect any immovable property comprised
therein, or
(b) confer any power to adopt, or
(c) be received as evidence of any transaction
affecting such property or conferring such
power,
unless it has been registered:
1[Provided that an unregistered document affecting
immovable property and required by this Act or the
Transfer of Property Act, 1882 (Act No. 4 of 1882) 2[or
any other law for the time being in force] to be re-
gistered may be received as evidence of a contract in a
suit for specific performance under Chapter II of the
specific Relief Act, 1877 (1 of 1877), 3[xxx], or as
evidence ofany collateral transaction not required to be
effected by registered instrument].
50. Certain registered documents relating to land to
take effect against unregistered documents.- (1) Every
document of the kinds mentioned in clauses (a), (b), (c)
and (d) of section 17, sub-section (1) and clauses (a) and
(b) of section 18, shall, if duly registered, take effect as
regards the property comprised therein, against every
unregistered document relating to the same property,
and not being a decree or order, whether such
unregistered document be of the same nature as the
registered document or not.
1. Added by Act 21 of 1929, s. 10.
2. Inserted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f.
02.12.2025
3. The words “or as evidence of part performance of a contract for the Purposes of
section 53A of the Transfer of Property Act 1882”, Act No. 48 of 2001, sec. 6 (w.e.f.
24.9.2001)
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(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) applies to leases
exempted under the proviso to sub-section (1) of
section 17 or to any document mentioned in sub-section
(2) of the same section, or to any registered document
which had not priority under the law in force at the
commencement of this Act.
Explanation.- In cases where Act No. 16 of 1864 or the
Indian Registration Act, 1866 (20 of 1866), was in force
in the place and at the time in and at which such
unregistered document was executed, “unregistered”
means not registered according to such Act, and, where
the document is executed after the first day of July,
1871 not registered under the Indian Registration Act,
1871 (8 of 1871), or the Indian Registration Act, 1877 (3
of 1877), or this Act.
PART XI
OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF
REGISTERING OFFICERS
(A) As to the Register-books and Indexes
51. Register books to be kept in the several offices.-
(1) The following books shall be kept in the several
offices hereinafter named, namely:-
A- In all registration-offices-
Book 1, “Register of non-testamentary documents
relating to immovable property”;
Book 2, “Record of reasons for refusal to register”;
Book 3, “Register of wills and authorities to adopt‟;
and
Book 4, Miscellaneous Register”.
B- In the offices of Registrars-
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Book 5, “Register of deposits of wills”.
(2) In Book 1 shall be entered or filed all documents or
memoranda registered under sections 17, 18 and 89
which relate to immovable property, and are not wills.
(3) In Book 4 shall be entered all documents registered
under clauses (d) and (f) of section 18 which do not
relate to immovable property.
(4) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require
more than one set of books where the office of the
Registrar has been amalgamated with the office of a
Sub-Registrar.
52. Duties of registering officers when document
presented.-(1) (a) The day, hour and place of
presentation 1[the photographs and fingerprints affixed
under section 32A], and the signature of every person
presenting a document for registration, shall be
endorsed on every such document at the time of
presenting it;
(b) a receipt for such document shall be given by the
registering officer to the person presenting the same;
and
2[(c) subject to the provisions contained in section 62, a
true or photostate copy of every document admitted to
registration shall without unnecessary delay, be pasted
in the book appropriated therefore according to the
order of its admission.]
3[Provided that when a document is registered through
the electronic means, the rules made by the State
Government shall be followed in this regard.]
1. Inserted Substituted by Act 48 of 2001, (w.e.f. 24.9.2001) the Registration and
Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2001.
2. Substituted by Raj. Act 11 of 1982, sec. 5 (w.e.f. 16.7.1982)
3. Added by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f.
02.12.2025
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(2) All such books shall be authenticated at such
intervals and in such manner as is from time to time
prescribed by the Inspector-General.
53. Entries to be numbered consecutively.- All
entries in each book shall be numbered in a consecutive
series, which shall commence and terminate with the
year, a fresh series being commenced at the beginning
of each year.
54. Current indexes and entries therein.- In every
office in which any of the books hereinbefore
mentioned are kept, there shall be prepared current
indexes of the contents of such books; and every entry
in such indexes shall be made, so far as practicable,
immediately after the registering officer has copied, or
filed a memorandum of, the document to which it
relates.
55. Indexes to be made by registering officers, and
their contents.- (1) Four such indexes shall be made in
all registration offices, and shall be named, respectively,
Index No.I, Index No.II,Index No. III and Index No. IV.
(2) Index No. I shall contain the names and additions
of all persons executing and of all persons claiming
under every document entered or memorandum filed
in Book No. 1.
(3) Index No. II shall contain such particulars
mentioned in section 21 relating to every such
document and memorandum as the Inspector-General
from time to time directs in that behalf.
(4) Index No. III shall contain the names and additions
of all persons executing every will and authority entered
in Book No. 3, and of the executors and persons
respectively appointed thereunder, and after the death of
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the testator or the donor (but not before) the names
and additions of all persons claiming under the same.
(5) Index No. IV shall contain the names and
additions of all persons executing and of all persons
claiming under every document entered in Book No. 4.
(6) Each index shall contain such other particulars,
and shall be prepared in such form, as the Inspector-
General from time to time directs.
56. [Copy of entries in Indexes No. I,II and III to
be sent by Sub-Registrar and filed.-] [Rep. by the
Indian Registration (Amendment) Act, 1929, (15 of
1929), s. 2.]
57. Registering officers to allow inspection of
certain books and indexes, and to give certified copies
of entries.- (1) Subjectto the previous payment of the
fees payable in that behalf, the Books Nos.1 and 2 and
the indexes relating to Book No. 1 shall be at all times
open to inspection by any person applying to inspect
the same; and, subject to the provisions of section 62,
copies of entries in such books shall be given to all
persons applying for such copies.
(2) Subject to the same provisions, copies of entries
in Book No. 3 and in the index relating thereto shall be
given to the persons executing the documents to which
such entries relate, or to their agents, and after the
death of the executants (but not before) to any person
applying for such copies.
(3) Subject to the same provisions, copies of entries
in Book No. 4 and in the index relating thereto shall be
given to any person executing or claiming under the
documents to which such entries respectively refer, or
to his agent or representative.
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(4) The requisite search under this section for entries
in Books Nos. 3 and 4 shall be made only 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.
(B) As to the procedure on admitting to registration
58. Particulars to be endorsed on documents
admitted to Registration.- (1) On everydocument
admitted to registration, other than a copy of a decree
or order, or a copy sent to a registering officer under
section 89, there shall be endorsed from time to time the
following particulars, namely:-
(a) the signature and addition of every person
admitting the execution of the document, and,
if such execution has been admitted by the
representative, assign or agent of any person,
the signature and addition of such
representative, assign or agent;
(b) the signature and addition of every person
examined in reference to such document under
any of the provisions of this Act; and
(c) any payment of money or delivery of goods
made in the presence of the registering officer
in reference to the execution of the document,
and any admission of receipt of consideration,
in whole or in part, made in his presence in
reference to such execution.
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(2) If any person admitting the execution of a
document refuses to endorse the same, the registering
officer shall nevertheless register it, but shall at the
same time endorse a note of such refusal.
59. Endorsements to be dated and signed by
registering officer.- The registering officer shall affix
the date and his signature to all endorsements made
under sections 52 and 58, relating to the same
document and made in his presence on the same day.
60. Certificate of registration.- (1) After such of the
provisions of sections 34, 35, 58 and 59 as apply to any
document presented for registration have been
complied with, the registering officer shall endorse
thereon a certificate containing the word “registered”
together with the number and page of the book in
which the document has been copied 1[or the true copy
of the document has been filed.]
(2) Such certificate shall be signed, sealed and dated
by the registering officer, and shall then be admissible
for the purpose of proving that the document has been
duly registered in manner provided by this Act, and
that the facts mentioned in the endorsements referred
to in section 59 have occurred as therein mentioned.
61. Endorsements and certificate to be copied and
document returned.- 2[(1) The endorsements and
certificate referred to and mentioned in sections 59 and
60 shall thereupon be copied into the true copy of the
document presented along with the document, and the
true copy of the map or plan, if any, mentioned in
section 21 shall be filed along with the true copy of the
document in Book No. 1.
1. Inserted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
2. Substituted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f.
02.12.2025
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(1A) The endorsement sheet and the signature sheet
generated through the electronic means shall be
scanned along with the document and numbered
accordingly;
Provided that in the office of the registering officer
notified by the state Government as a computerised
office, the copying of the items shall be done by using
the electronic devices.]
(2) The registration of the document shall thereupon
be deemed complete, and the document shall then be
returned to the person who presented the same for
registration, or to such other person (if any) as he has
nominated in writing in that behalf on the receipt
mentioned in section 52.
62. Procedure on presenting document in language
unknown to registering officer.- 1[(1) When a
document is presented for registration under section
19, a copy of atranslation shall be pasted in the register
of documents of the nature of the original, and the
second copy of the translation together withthe copy,
referred to in section 19, shall be filed in the registration
office.]
(2) The endorsements and certificate respectively
mentioned in sections 59 and 60 shall be made on the
original, and, for the purpose of making the copies and
memoranda required by sections 57, 64, 65 and 66, the
translation shall be treated as if it were the original.
63. Power to administer oaths and record of
substance of statements.- (1) Every registering officer
may at his discretion administer an oath to any person
examined by him under the provisions of this Act.
1. Substituted by the Raj. Act No. 11 of 1982 (w.e.f. 16.7.1982)
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(2) Every such officer may also at his discretion
record a note of the substance of the statement made by
each such person, and such statement shall be read
over, or (if made in a language with which such person
is not acquainted) interpreted to him in a language
with which he is acquainted, and, if he admits the
correctness of such note, it shall be signed by the
registering officer.
(3) Every such note so signed shall be admissible for
the purpose of proving that the statements therein
recorded were made by the persons and under the
circumstances therein stated.
(C) Special duties of Sub-Registrar
64. Procedure where document relates to land in
several sub-districts.- Every Sub-Registrar on
registering a non-testamentary document relating to
immovable property not wholly situate in his own sub-
district shall make a memorandum thereof and of the
endorsement and certificate (if any) thereon, 1[either in
hard copy or in electronic form, as the case may be,]
and send the same to every other Sub-Registrar
subordinate to the same Registrar as himself in whose
sub-district any part of such property is situate, and
such Sub-Registrar shall file the memorandum in his
Book No. 1.
65. Procedure where document relates to land in
several districts.- (1) Every Sub-Registrar on registering
a non-testamentary document relating to immovable
property situate in more districts than one shall also
forward a copy thereof and of the endorsement and
certificate (if any) thereon, 2[either in hard copy or in
electronic form, as the case may be,] together with a
1. Inserted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
2. nserted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
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copy of the map or plan (if any) mentioned in section
21, to the Registrar of every district in which any part of
such property is situate other than the district in which
his own sub-district is situate.
(2) The Registrar on receiving the same shall file
inhis Book No. 1 the copy of the document and the
copy of the map or plan (if any), and shall forward a
memorandum of the document to each of the Sub-
Registrars subordinate to him within whose sub-district
any part of such property is situate and every Sub-
Registrar receiving such memorandum shall file in his
Book No. 1.
(D) Special duties of Registrar.
66. Procedure after registration of document
relating to land.- (1) On registering any non-
testamentary document relating to immovable property
the Registrar shall forward a memorandum of such
document to each Sub-Registrar subordinate to himself
in whose sub-district any part of the property is situate.
(2) The Registrar shall also forward a copy of such
document, together with a copy of the map or plan (if
any) 1[either in hard copy or in electronic form, as the
case may be,] mentioned in section 21, to every other
Registrar in whose district any part of such property is
situate.
(3) Such Registrar on receiving any such copy shall
file it in his Book No. 1, and shall also send a
memorandum of the copy to each of the Sub-Registrars
subordinate to him within whose sub-district any part
of the property is situate.
1. Inserted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
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(4) Every Sub-Registrar receiving any
memorandum under this section shall file it in his Book
No. 1.
67.1[xxx] Deleted
(E) Of the controlling powers of Registrar and
Inspector-General.
68. Power of Registrar to superintend and Control
Sub-Registrars.- (1) Every Sub-Registrar shall perform
the duties of his office under the superintendence and
control of the Registrar in whose district the office of
such Sub-Registrar is situate.
(2) Every Registrar shall have authority to issue
(whether on complaint or otherwise) any order
consistent with this Act which he considers necessary in
respect of any act or omission of any Sub-Registrar
subordinate to him or in respect of the rectification of
any error regarding the book or the office in which any
document has been registered.
69. Power of Inspector-General to superintend
registration offices and make rules.- (1) The Inspector-
General shall exercise a general superintendence over
all the registration-offices in the territories under the
2[State Government,] and shall have power from time to
time to make rules consistent with this Act-
(a) providing for the safe custody of books, papers
and documents; 3[xxx];
4[(aa) providing the manner in which and the
safeguards subject to which the books may be
kept in
1. Deleted by the Raj. Act No. 18 of 1989 (w.e.f. 18.9.1989)
2. Substituted by the A. O. 1950 for “Provincial Government”
3. Certain words rep. by Act 5 of 1917, sec. 6 and sch.
4. Inserted by Act 48 of 2001, (w.e.f. 24.9.2001) the Registration and Other Related Laws
(Amendment) Act, 2001.
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computer floppies or diskettes or in any other
electronic form under sub-section (1) of
section 16A;]
(b) declaring what languages shall be deemed to
be commonly used in each district;
1[(bb) providing for grant of licences to document
writers, the revocation of such licences, the
terms and conditions subject to which and the
authority by whom such licences shall be
granted and generally for all purposes
connected with the writing of documents to be
presented for registration.]
(c) declaring what territorial divisions shall be
recognized under section 21;
(d) regulating the amount of fines imposed under
sections 25 and 34, respectively;
2[(dd) providing for recovery of deficit registration
fee;]
3[(ddd) providing for refund of registration fee paid in
excess;]
(e) regulating the exercise of the discretion
reposed in the registering officer by section 63;
(f) regulating the form in which registering
officers are to make memoranda of documents;
(g) regulating the authentication by Registrars
and Sub-Registrars of the books kept in their
respective offices under section 51;
1. Inserted by Raj. Act No, 18 of 1953, s, 2 in application to Raj. (w.e.f. 10.10.1953)
2. Inserted by Raj. Act No. 11 of 1982, sec. 4 (W.e.f. 16.7.1982)
3. Inserted by Raj. Act No. 11 of 1982, sec. 4 (w.e.f. 16.7.1982)
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1[(gg) regulating the manner in which the instruments
referred to in sub-section (2) of section 88 may
be presented for registration;]
(h) declaring the particulars to be contained in
Indexes No. I,II,III and IV, respectively;
(i) 2[xxx] deleted;
(j) generally,regulating the proceedings of the
Registrars and Sub-Registrars;
3[(k) regulating the procedure for presentation of
various types of documents, appearance of
executants for admission of execution,
endorsements, and the manner of fixing
signature and seal of registering officer, mode
of payment of registration fees and other fees
and such other processes when the document
is presented for registration by electronic
means;
(l) regulating the procedure of registration;
(m) providing the manner in which and the
safeguards subject to which the books may
be kept in computer floppies or diskettes or
in any other electronic form under sub-
section (1) of section 16A;
(n) regulating the procedure for taking of
photograph of identifying witnesses to a
document presented before a registering
officer;
1. Inserted by Act 39 of 1948, sec. 4
2. Deleted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
3. Added by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
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(o) providing for online registration of
documents and enquiry before the
registering officer when the document is
presented before the registering officer by
electronic means at any office of the
regtistering officer;
(p) providing for scanning the documents for
their safety in electronic form;
(q) providing for sending of memoranda of
documents registered in electronic form;
(r) regulating the manner in which the
instruments referred to in sub-section (2) of
section 88 may be presented for registration;
(s) regulating the manner of recopying of books,
indexes or portions thereof.]
(2) The rules so made shall be submitted to the
1[State Government] for approval, and, after they have
been approved, they shall be published in the 2[Official
Gazette], and on publication shall have effect as if
enacted in this Act.
3[(3) The Inspector-General shall have power to
issue any order consistent with this Act which he
considers necessary in respect of any act or omission of
any person subordinate to him or in respect of
rectification of any error regarding the book or the
office in which any document has been registered.]
70. Power of Inspector-Generalto remit fines.- The
Inspector-General may also, in the exercise of his
discretion, remit wholly or in part the difference
1. Substituted by the A. O. 1950 for “Provincial government”
2. Substituted by the A. O. 1937, for “Local Official Gazette.
3. Added by Raj. Act 18 of 1989 sec. 6 (w.e.f. 18.9.1989)
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between any fine levied under section 25 or section 34,
and the amount of the proper registration fee.
PART XII
OF REFUSAL TO REGISTER
71. Reasons for refusal to register to be recorded.-
(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
applieation 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.
72. Appeal to Registrar from orders of Sub-
Registrar refusing registration on ground other than
denial of execution.- (1) Except where the refusal is
made on the grond 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.
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(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.
73. Application to Registrar where Sub-Registrar
refuses to register on ground of denial of execution.-
(1) When a Sub-registrar has refused to register a
document on the ground that any person by whom it
purports to be executed, or his representative or assign,
denies its execution, any person claiming under such
document, or his representative, assign or agent
authorized as aforesaid, may, within thirty days after
the making of the order of refusal, apply to the
Registrar to whom such Sub-Registrar is subordinate in
order to establish his right to have the document
registered.
(2) Such application shall be in writing and shall be
accompanied by a copy of the reasons recorded under
section 71, and the statements in the application shall be
verified by the applicant in manner required by law for
the verification of plaints.
74. Procedure of Registrar on such application.- 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-
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(a) whether the document has been executed;
(b) whether therequirements 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.
75. Order by Registrar to register and procedure
thereon.- (1) If the Registrar finds that the document
has been executed and that the said requirements have
been complied with, he shall order the document to be
registered.
(2) If the document is duly presented for registration
within thirty days after the making of such order, the
registering officer shall obey the same and thereupon
shall, so far as may be practicable, follow the procedure
prescribed in sections 58, 59 and 60.
(3) Such registration shall take effect as if the
document had been registered when it was first duly
presented for registration.
(4) The Registrar may, for the purpose of any
enquiry under section 74, summon and enforce the
attendance of witnesses, and compel them to give
evidence, as if he were a Civil Court, and he may also
direct by whom the whole or any part of the costs of
any such enquiry shall be paid, and such costs shall be
recoverable as if they had been awarded in a suit under
the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908).
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76. Order of refusal by Registrar.- (1) Every
Registrar refusing-
(a) to register a document except on the ground that
the property to which it relates is not situate within his
district, or that the document ought to be registered in
the office of a Sub-Registrar, or
(b) to direct the registration of a document under
section 72 or section 75,
shall make an order of refusal and record the reasons
for such order in his Book No, 2, and, on application
made by any person executing or claiming under the
document, shall, without unnecessary delay, give him a
copy of the reasons so recorded.
(2) No appeal lies from any order by a Registrar
under this section or section 72.
77. Suit in case of order of refusal by Registrar.- (1)
Where the Registrar refuses to order the document to
be registered, under section 72 or section 76, any person
claiming under such document, or his representative,
assign or agent, may, within thirty days after the
making of the order of refusal, institute in the Civil
Court, within the local limits of whose original
jurisdiction is situate the office in which the document
is sought to be registered, a suit for a decree directing
the document to be registered in such office if it be duly
presented for registration within thirty days after the
passing of such decree.
(2) The provisions contained in sub-sections (2) and
(3) of section 75 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to all
documents presented for registaration in accordance
with any such decree, and notwithstanding anything
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contained in this Act, the document shall be receivable
in evidence in such suit.
PART XIII
OF THE FEES FOR REGISTRATION, SEARCHES
AND COPIES
78. Fees to be fixed by State Government.- 1[xxx]
2[(1)The 3[State Government] shallprepare a table of fees
payable-
(a) for the registration of documents;
(b) for searching the registers;
(c) for making or granting copies of reasons,
entries or documents, before, on or after
registration;
and of extra or additional fees payable-
(d) for every registration under section 30;
(e) for the issue of commissions;
(f) for filing translations;
(g) for attending at private residences;
(h) for the safe custody and return of documents
and
(i) for such other matters as appear to the
Government necessary to effect the purposes
of this Act.
1. The words “Subject to the control of the G.G. in C” rep. by Act 38 of 1920, s. 2
and Sch. 1.
2. Inserted by Act NO. 16 of 1976 (w.e.f. 13.2.1976)
3. Substituted by the A.O. 1950 for “Proviccial Government”
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1[(2) the State Government may, if in its opinion it
is necessary in the public interest so to do, by order
published in the Official Gazette, remit or reduce the
fees payable in respect of any of the matters
enumerated in clause (a) to (i) of sub-section (1), either
generally or for any particular class or classes of cases
and in respect of persons generally or of any particular
class or classes or persons.]
79. Publication of fees.- A table of the fees so
payable shall be published in the Official Gazette, and a
copy thereof in English and the vernacular language of
the district shall be exposed to public view in every
registration office.
80. Fees payable on presentation.- All fees for the
registration of documents under this Act shall be
payable on the presentation of such documents.
2[80-A. Duty of Collector in proceedings3[under
section 51, 53 or 55 of the Rajasthan Stamp Act, 1998].-
(1) 4[Where during the course of proceedings, if any,
under section 51, 53 or 55 of the Rajasthan Stamp Act,
1998 (Rajasthan Act No. 14 of 1999),]the Collectoris
satisfied that the fee for registration paid under this Act
in respect of a document or instrument is in deficit, he
shall determine, in the course of such proceedings, the
deficient amount of fee and recover the same from the
person liable to pay the deficient amount ofstamp duty
under the said section.
(2) The amount recoverable under this section shall
be recovered as arrears of Land revenue.]
1. Inserted by Act No. 16 of 1976 (w.e.f. 13.2.1976.)
2. Inserted by Raj. Act No. 11 of 1982, sec. 4 (w.e.f. 16.7.1982)
3. Substitutedby the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
4. Substituted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
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1[80-B. Recovery of deficient registration fee as
arrears of Land revenue.- If on inspection or otherwise,
it is found that the fee payable under this Act in relation
to any document which is registered, has not been paid
or has been insufficiently paid, such fee may (after
failure to pay the same of demand within the
prescribed period) on a certificate of Inspector General
of Registration or any other officer appointed under
section 8, be recovered from the persons liable to pay
the stamp duty as arrears of land revenue. Such
certificate shall be final and shall not be called in
question in any Court or before any authority:
Provided that no such certificate shall be granted
unless due enquiry is made and such person has been
given an opportunity, if being heard.]
PART XIV
OF PENALTIES
81.Penalty for incorrectly endorsing, copying,
translating or registering documents with intent to
injure.- Every registering officer appointed under this
Act and every person employed in his office for the
purposes of this Act, who, being charged with the
endorsing, copying, translating or registering of any
document presented or deposited under its provisions,
endorses, copies, translates or registers such document
in a manner which he knows or believes to be incorrect,
intending thereby to cause or knowing it to be likely
that he may therby cause, injury, as defined in the
Indian Penal Code,(45 of 1860), to any person, shall be
punishable with imprisonment for a term which may
extend to seven years, or with fine, or with both.
1. Inserted by Act No. 11 of 1982 sec. 8 (w.e.f. 16.7.1982)
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82. Penalty for making false statements, delivering
false copies or translations, false personation, and
abetment.- Whoever-
(a) intentionally makes any false statement,
whether on oath or not, and whether it has
been recorded or not, before any officer
acting in execution of this Act, in any
proceeding or enquiry under this Act; or
(c) intentionally delivers to a registering officer,
in any proceeding under section 19 or
section 21, a false copy or translation of a
document, or a false copy of map or plan; or
(d) falsely personates another, and in such
assumed character presents any document,
or makes any admission or statement, or
causes any summons or commission to be
issued, or does any other act in any
proceeding or enquiry under this Act; or
(e) abets anything made punishable by this Act,
shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term
which may extend to seven years, or with fine, or with
both.
1[82A. Punishment for failure to send a copy of
order under section 89.- Every officer who fails to send
a copy of the order within one month under section 89
to the registering officer shall be punishable with a fine
which may extend to rupees twenty five thousand.]
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83. Registering officer may commence
prosecutions.- (1) A prosecution for any offence under
this Act coming to the knowledge of a registering
officer in his official capacity may be commenced by or
with the permission of the Inspector-General, 1[xxx] the
Registrar or the Sub-Registrar, in whose territories,
district or sub-district, as the case may be, the offence
has been committed.
(2) Offences punishable under this Act shall be
triable by any Court or officer exercising powers not
less than those of a Magistrate of the second class.
84. Registering officers to be deemed public
servants.- (1) Every registering officer appointed under
this Act shall be deemed to be a public servant within
the meaning of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).
(2) Every person shall be legally bound to furnish
information to such registering officer when required
by him to do so.
(3) In section 228 of the Indian Penal Code, (45 of
1860), the words, “judicial proceeding” shall be deemed
to include any proceeding under this Act.
PART XV
MISCELLANEOUS
85. Destruction of unclaimed documents.-
Documents (other than wills) remaining unclaimed in
any registration office for a period exceeding two years
may be destroyed.
1. The words “the Branch Inspector-General of Sindh” Omitted by the A.O. 1937.
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86. Registering officer not liable for thing bona
fide done or refused in his official capacity.- No
registering officer shall be liable to any suit, claim or
demand by reason of anything in good faith done or
refused in his official capacity.
87. Nothing so done invalidated by defect in
appointment or procedure.- Nothing done in good
faith pursuant to this Act or any Act hereby repealed,
by any registering officer, shall be deemed invalid
merely by reason of any defect in his appointment or
procedure.
1[88. Registration of documents executed by
Government officers or certain public functionaries.-
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, it
shall not be necessary for-
(a) any officer of Government, or
(b) any Administrator Gereral, Official Trustee or
Official Assignee, or
(c) the Sheriff, Receiver or Registrar of High
Court, or
(d) the holder for the time-being of such other
public office as may be specified in a
notification in the Official Gazette issued in
that behalf by the 2[State Government.]
to appear in person or by agent at any registration
office in any proceeding connected with the registration
of any instrument executed by him or in his favour, in
his official capacity, or to sign as provided in section 58.
1. Substituted by Act 39 of 1948, s. 5.
2. Substituted by the A.O. for “Provincial Government”
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(2) Any instrument executed by or in favour of an
officer of Government or any other person referred to
in sub-section (1) may be presented for registration in
such manner as may be prescribed by rules made under
section 69.
(3) The registering officer to whom any instrument
is presented for registration under this section may, if
he thinks fit, refer to any Secretary to Government or to
such officer of Government or other person referred to
in sub-section (1) for information respecting the same
and on being satisfied of the execution thereof, shall
register the instrument.]
89. Copies of certain orders, certificates and
instruments to be sent to registering officers and
filed.- (1) Every officer granting a loan under the Land
Improvement Loans Act, 1883 (19 of 1883), shall send a
copy of his order to the registering officer within the
local limits of whose jurisdiction the whole or any part
of the land to be improved or of the land to be granted
as collateral security, is situate, and such registering
officer shall file the copy in Book No. 1 1[“or get it
scanned”].
(2) 2[xxx] Deleted
(3) Every officer granting a loan under the
Agriculturist‟s Loans Act, 1884 (12 of 1884), shall send a
copy of any instrument whereby immovable property
is mortgaged for the purpose of securing the repayment
of the loan, and if any such property is mortgaged for
the same purpose in the order granting the loan, a copy
also of that order, to the registering officer within the
local
1. Inserted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
2. Deleted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
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limits of whose jurisdiction the whole or any part of the
property so mortgaged is situate, and such registering
officer shall file the copy or copies, as the case may be,
in his Book No. 1 1[“or get it scanned”.]
(4) 2[xxx] Deleted
3[(5) All banks and financial institutions, granting
loans on the basis of equitable mortgage whereby
immovable property is mortgaged by deposit of title
deeds for the purpose of securing repayment of the
loan, shall send the copy of the same online to the
registering officer within the local limits of whose
jurisdiction the whole or any part of the property so
mortgaged is situated either directly or through an
agency appointed by the Central Government or the
State Government and such registering officer shall
keep the copy or copies in computer diskettes or in any
electronic form, as the case may be, in his Book No. 1.]
[4(6)] [5Every Bank granting a loan to an
agriculturists for agricultural purposes, shall send
within such time and in such manner as may be
prescribed, a copy of any instrument whereby
immovable property is mortgaged for the purpose of
securing repayment of loan, to the registering officer
within the local limits of whose Jurisdiction the whole
or any part of the property so mortgaged is situate, and
such registering officer shall file the copy in his Book
No. 1 6[“or get it scanned”].
Explanations.- for the purposes of sub-section (6)
(a) the expression „every bank‟ shall mean :
1. Inserted by by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f.
02.12.2025
2. Deleted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
3. Inserted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
4. Sub-Section (5) shall be renumbered as sub-section (6) by the Registration (Rajasthan
Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
5. Inserted by Act 16 of 1976, sec. (w.e.f. 13.2.1976)
6. Inserted by the Registration (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 2021 (Act No. 1 of 2025 ) w. e. f. 02.12.2025
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(i) a banking company as defined in the Banking
Regulation Act, 1949;
(ii) the State Bank of India constituted under the
State Bank of India Act, 1955;
(iii) a subsidiary bank as defined in the State Bank
of India (Subsidiary Bank) Act, 1959;
(iv) a corresponding new bank constituted under
the Banking companies (Acquisition Transfer
of Undertakings) Act, 1970;
(v) a banking institution notified by the Central
Government under section 51 of the Banking
Regulation Act, 1949;
(vi) the Agricultural Refinance Corporation
constituted under the Agricultural Re-finance
Corporation Act, 1963;
(vii) Agro-Industries Corporation;
(viii) Agricultural Finance Corporation Ltd., a
company incorporated under the companies
Act, 1956; and
(ix) Any other financial institution notified by the
State Government in the Official Gazette as a
bank for the purpose of this Act.
(b) the word „agriculturist‟ shall have the meaning
assigned to it in sub-section (3) of section 5 of the
Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 (Raj. Act, 3 of 1955).]
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1[89A. Power of State Government to make
rules.- (1) The State Government may, by notification in
the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the
provisions of this Act.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the
generality of the foregoing power, such rules may
provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:-
(a) the manner of presentation of every document
to the registration office under section 32;
(b) such circumstances and such documents under
clause (d) of sub-section (3) of section 35; and
(c) any other matter which is required to be, or
may be, prescribed
(3) Every rule made under this Act by the State
Government shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is
made, before the House of the State Legislature.]
Exemptions from Act
90. Exemption of certain documents executed by
or in favour of Government.- (1) Nothing contained in
this Act or in the Indian Registration Act. 1877 (3 of
1877), or in the Indian Registration Act, 1871, (8 of 1871)
or in any Act thereby repealed, shall be deemed to
require, or to have at any time required, the registration
of any of the following documents or maps, namely:-
(a) documents issued, received or attested by any
officer engaged in making a settlement or
revision of settlement of land-revenue, and
which form part of the records of such
settlement; or
(b) documents and maps issued, received or
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authenticated by any officer engaged on behalf
of Government in making or revising the
survey of any land, and which form part of the
record of such survey; or
(c) documents which under any law for the time-
being in force, are filed periodically in any
revenue office by patwaris or other officers
charged with the preparation of village records;
or
(d)sanads, inam, title-deeds and other documents
purporting to be or to evidence grants or
assignments by Government of land or of any
interest in land; or
(e) notices given under section 74 or section 76 of
the Bombay Land Revenue Code, 1879 (Bom. 5
of 1879), or relinquishment of occupancy by
occupants or of alienated land by holders of
such land.
(2) All such documents and maps shall, for the
purposes of sections 48 and 49, be deemed to have been
and to be registered in accordance with the provisions
of this Act.
91. Inspection and copies of such documents.-
1[(1)] Subject to such rules and the previous payment of
such fees as the 2[State Government, by notification in
the Official Gazette, prescribes in this behalf], all
documents and maps mentioned in section 90, clauses
(a), (b), (c) and (e), and all registers of the documents
mentioned in clause (d), shall be open to the inspection
of any person applying to inspect the same, and, subject
as aforesaid, copies of such documents shall be given to
all persons applying for such copies.
1. Renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 20 of 1983, sec. 2 and sch. (w.e.f.
15.3.1984)
2. Substituted by Act 20 of 1983, sec. 2 and sch for “State Government prescribes in this
behalf” (w.e.f. 15.3.1984
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1[(2) Every rule prescribed under this sub-section
or made under section 69 shall be laid, as soon as it is
made, before the State Legislature.]
92. 2[Burmese registration rules confirmed].-
93. [Repeals] Rep. by the Repealing Act, 1938 (1 of
1938), s.2 and Sch.
The Schedule : [Repeal of Enactments.] Rep. by s.
2 and Sch.ibid.
1. Inserted by Act 20 of 1983, sec. 2 and sch. (W.e.f. 15.3.1984)
2. Rep. by the A.O. 1937 Repeals.
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