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The Registration Act, 1908

( ACT NO. XVI OF 1908 )

Reasons for refusal to register to be recorded
71.(1) Every Sub-Registrar refusing to register a document, except on the ground that the property to which it relates is not situate within his sub-district, shall make an order of refusal and record his reasons for such order in his Book No. 2, and endorse the words “registration refused” on the document; and, on application made by an person executing or claiming under the document, shall, without payment and unnecessary delay, give him a copy of the reasons so recorded.
 
 
(2) No registering officer shall accept for registration a document so endorsed unless and until, under the provisions hereinafter contained, the document is directed to be registered.

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