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ACT NO. XVI OF 1908Year 190818th December, 1908

The Registration Act,

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Short title, extent and commencement

Inspector-General of Registration

Districts and sub-districts

Registrars and Sub-Registrars

Offices of Registrar and Sub-Registrar

Inspectors of Registration-offices

Absence of Registrar or vacancy in his office

Absence of Registrar on duty in his district

Absence of Sub-Registrar or vacancy in his office

Report to Government of appointments under sections 10, 11 and 12

Establishments of registering officers

Seal of registering officers

Register-books and fire-proof boxes

Documents of which registration is compulsory

Registration of contract for sale, etc.

Effect of unregistered contract for sale executed prior to section 17A becomes effective

Documents of which registration is optional

Documents in language not understood by registering officer

Documents containing interlineations, blanks erasures or alterations

Description of property and maps or plans

Description of houses and land by reference to Government maps or surveys

Instrument of transfer

Time for presenting documents

Re-registration of certain documents

Documents executed by several persons at different times

Provision where delay in presentation is unavoidable

Documents executed out of Bangladesh

Wills may be presented or deposited at any time

Place for registering documents relating to land

Place for registering other documents

Registration or acceptance for deposit at private residence

Persons to present documents for registration

Power-of-attorney recognizable for purposes of section 32

Enquiry before registration by registering officer

Procedure on admission and denial of execution respectively

Procedure where appearance of executant or witness is desired

Officer or Court to issue and cause service of summons

Persons exempt from appearance at registration-office

Law as to summonses, commissions and witnesses

Persons entitled to present Wills and authorities to adopt

Registration of wills and authorities to adopt

Deposit of wills

Procedure on deposit of wills

Withdrawal of sealed cover deposited under section 42

Proceedings on death of depositor

Saving of certain enactments and powers of Courts

Destruction of Wills

Time from which registered document operates

Registered documents relating to property when to take effect against oral agreements

Effect of non-registration of documents required to be registered

Certain registered documents relating to land to take effect against unregistered documents

Register-books to be kept in the several offices

Duties of registering officers when document presented

Registering Officer not to register unless certain particulars are included in an instrument of sale

Entries to be numbered consecutively

Current indexes and entries therein

Indexes to be made by registering officers, and their contents

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

Particulars to be endorsed on document admitted to registration

Endorsements to be dated and signed by registering officer

Certificate of registration

Endorsements and certificate to be copied and document returned

Procedure on presenting document in language unknown to registering officer

Power to administer oaths and record of substance of statements

Procedure where documents not properly valued.

Procedure where document relates to land in several sub-districts

Procedure where document relates to land in several districts

Procedure after registration of documents relating to land

Power of Registrar to superintend and control Sub-Registrars

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

Power of Inspector-General to remit fines

Application of this Part

Appointment of Photo-Registrars

Documents may be photographed in areas notified by Government

Power to make rules

Application of Act to areas notified under section 70-D

Reasons for refusal to register to be recorded

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

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

Procedure of Registrar on such application

Order by Registrar to register and procedure thereon

Order of refusal by Registrar

Suit in case of order of refusal by Registrar

Applicability of this Act to digitized registration system

Fees to be fixed by Government

Registration fee for contract for sale, heba and mortgage

Registration fee for instrument of partition

Publication of fees

Fees etc. payable on presentation

Hanging up of lists of touts in Registration Offices

Exclusion of touts from precincts of Registration Offices

Presumption as to touts found within precincts of Registration Offices

Powers to frame and publish lists of touts

Inquiry by a Sub-Registrar regarding suspected touts

Arrest and trial of touts

Power to Inspector-General to make rules relating to deed-writers

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

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

Registering officer may commence prosecutions

Registering officers to be deemed public servants

Destruction of unclaimed documents

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

Nothing so done invalidated by defect in appointment or procedure

Registration of documents executed by Government officers or certain public functionaries

Copies of certain orders, certificates and instruments to be sent to registering officers and field

Exemption of certain documents executed by or in favour of Government

Inspection and copies of such documents