3. Inspector-General of Registration.—(1) The 2
[State Government] shall appoint an officer to be
the Inspector-General of Registration for the territories subject to such Government:
Provided that the 2
[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 2
[State Government]
appoints in this behalf.
(2) Any Inspector-General may hold simultaneously any other office under the 3
[Government].
4. [Branch Inspector-General of Sindh (Repealed).]—Rep. by the Government of India (Adaptation of
Indian Laws) Order, 1937.
5. Districts and sub-districts.—(1) For the purposes of this Act, the 2
[State Government] shall form
districts and sub-districts, and shall prescribe, and may alter, the limits of such districts and sub-districts.
(2) The districts and sub-districts formed under this section, together with the limits thereof, and
every alternation of such limits, shall be notified in the 4
[Official Gazette].
(3) Every such alternation shall take effect on such day after the date of the notification as is therein
mentioned.
6. Registrars and Sub-Registrars.—The 2
[State Government] may appoint such persons, whether
public officers or not, as it thinks proper, to be Registrars of the several districts, and to be Sub-Registrars
of the several sub-districts, formed as aforesaid, respectively.
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7. Offices of Registrar and Sub-Registrar.—(1) The 2
[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 2
[State Government] may amalgamate with any office of a Registrar, any office of a
Sub-Registrar subordinate to such Registrar, and may authorise any Sub-Registrar whose office has been
so amalgamated to exercise and perform, in addition to his own powers and duties, all or any of the
powers and the duties of the Registrar to whom he is subordinate:
Provided that no such authorisation shall enable a Sub-Registrar to hear an appeal against an order
passed by himself under this Act.
8. Inspectors of Registration offices.—(1) The 2
[State Government] may also appoint officers to be
called Inspector of Registration offices, and may prescribe the duties of such officers.
(2) Every such Inspector shall be subordinate to the Inspector-General.
1. Clause (11) omitted by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and Schedule. Earlier it was inserted by the A.O. 1950.
2. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for “Provincial Government”.
3. Subs., ibid., for “the Crown”.
4. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for “Local Official Gazette”.
5. The proviso rep. by the A.O. 1937. Earlier it was inserted by Act 4 of 1914, s. 2 and the Schedule.
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9. [Military cantonments may be declared sub-districts or districts (Repealed).] Rep. by the Repealing
and Amending Act, 1927 (10 of 1927), s. 3 and Second Schedule.]
10. Absence of Registrar or vacancy in his office.—(1) When any Registrar, other than the
Registrar of a district including a Presidency-town, is absent otherwise than on duty in his district, or
when his office is temporarily vacant, any person whom the Inspector-General appoints in this behalf, or,
in default of such appointment, the Judge of the District Court within the local limits of whose
jurisdiction the Registrar’s office is situate, shall be the Registrar during such absence or until the 1
[State
Government] fills up the vacancy.
(2) When the Registrar of a district including a Presidency-town is absent otherwise than on duty in
his district, or when his office is temporarily vacant, any person whom the Inspector-General appoints in
this behalf shall be the Registrar during such absence, or until the 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 Registrar of the district appoints in this
behalf shall be Sub-Registrar during such absence, or until 2
[the vacancy is filled up].
13. Report to State Government of appointments under sections 10, 11 and 12.—(1)
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appointments made under section 10, section 11 or section 12 shall be reported to the 1
[State
Government] by the Inspector-General.
(2) Such report shall be either special or general, as the l
[State Government] directs.
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14. Establishments of registering officers.—5
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(2) The 1
[State Government] may allow proper establishments for the several offices under this Act.
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) The 1
[State Government] shall provide for the office
of every registering officer the books necessary for the purposes of this Act.
(2) The books so provided shall contain the forms from time to time prescribed by the InspectorGeneral, with the sanction of the 1
[State Government], and the pages of such books shall be consecutively
numbered in print, and the number of pages in each book shall be certified on the title page by the officer
by whom such books are issued.
(3) The 1
[State Government] shall supply the office of every Registrar with a fire-proof box, and shall
in each district make suitable provision for the safe custody of the records connected with the registration
of documents in such district.
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[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. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for “Provincial Government”.
2. Subs. by Act 4 of 1914, s. 2 and the Schedule, for “the Local Government fills up the vacancy”.
3. The words and figure “All appointments made by the Inspector-General section 6 and” rep. by the A.O. 1937. Earlier these
words and figure were ins. by Act 4 of 1914, s. 2 and the Schedule.
4. Sub-section (3) rep. by the A.O. 1937.
5. Sub-section (1) rep., ibid.,
6. Ins. by Act 48 of 2001, s. 2 (w.e.f. 24-9-2001).
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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 books kept under sub-section (1) given by the registering officer under his hand
and seal shall be deemed to be a copy given under section 57 for the purposes of sub-section (5) of that
section.]