Act Number: 16

Act Name: The Registration Act, 1908

Year: 1908

Enactment Date: 1908-12-18

Long Title: An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to the Registration of Documents.

Ministry: Ministry of Rural Development

Department: Department of Land Resources

Section 32: Persons to present documents for registration.
    Except in the cases mentioned in 1[sections 31, 88 and 89], every document to be registered under this Act, whether such registration be compulsory or optional, shall be presented at the proper registration-office,--
         (a) by some person executing or claiming under the same, or, in the case of a copy of a decree or order, claiming under the decree or order, or
         (b) by the representive or assign of such a person, or
         (c) by the agent of such a person, representative or assign, duly authorised by power-of attorney executed and authenticated in manner hereinafter mentioned.
Gujarat
Amendment of section 32 of XVI of 1908.--In the principal Act, in section 32, the following Explanation shall be added at the end, namely:--
    “Explanation.--For the purpose of this section the term “document” shall include the document presented by an electronic means.”
[Vide Gujarat Act 4 of 2020, s. 3]
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 39 of 1948, s. 3, for section 31 and section 89.
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