Act Number: 30

Act Name: The Delhi Lands (Restrictions on Transfer) Act, 1972

Year: 1972

Enactment Date: 1972-06-14

Long Title: An Act to impose certain restrictions on transfer of lands which have been acquired by the Central Government or in respect of which acquisition proceedings have been initiated by that Government, with a view to preventing large-scale transactions of purported transfers or, as the case may be, transfers of such lands to unwary public.

Ministry: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

Department:

Section 8: Restrictions on registration of transfers of land.
    Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, where any document required to be registered under the provisions of clause (a) to clause (e) of sub-section (1) of section 17 of the Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), purports to transfer by sale, mortgage, gift, lease or otherwise any land or part thereof referred to in section 4, no registering officer appointed under that Act shall register any such document unless the transferor produces before such registering officer a permission in writing of the competent authority for such transfer.
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