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The Registration Act, 1908

( ACT NO. XVI OF 1908 )

Place for registering documents relating to land
28. (1) Save as in this Part otherwise provided, every document mentioned in section 17, sub-section (1), clause (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e), section 17, sub-section (2), and section 18, in so far as such documents affects immoveable property shall be presented for registration in the office of a Sub-Registrar within whose sub-district the whole or 1[major portion] of the property to which such document relates is situate 2[:
 
 
Provided that where the major portion of such property is not situate within one sub-district the document shall be presented for registration in the office of the Sub-Registrar within whose sub-district any portion of such property is situate.]
 
 
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1),-
 
 
(a) after a document is registered, no party thereto shall be entitled to question the validity of its registration on the ground that the property which purported to give jurisdiction to the Sub-Registrar to register it either did not exist or was fictitious or insignificant or was not intended to be conveyed; and
 
 
(b) a document the registration of which is secured by the inclusion of a non-existent, fictitious or insignificant portion or item shall not in any manner affect the rights of a person who was not a party thereto and acquired rights in the property without notice of the transaction to which such document relates.

  • 1
    The words “major portion” were substituted, for the words “some portion” by section 2 of the Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 1985 (Ordinance No. L of 1985).
  • 2
    A colon was substituted for the full-stop at the end of sub-section (1) and thereafter the proviso was added by section 2 of the Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 1985 (Ordinance No. L of 1985).
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