The Registration Act, 1908

(1) This Act may be called the 1*** Registration Act,1908. 2[(2) It extends to the whole of India 3***: Provided that the State Government may exclude any districts or tracts of country from its operation.] (3) It shall come into force on the first day of January, 1909. STATE AMENDMENT Karnataka Amendment of section 1.--For sub-section (3) of section 1 of the Registration (KarnatakaAmendment) Act, 1976 (Karnataka Act 55 of 1976) the following sub-section shall be and shall bedeemed have been substituted, namely:-- "(3) This section and sections 3, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 19 shall come into force at once and the othersections shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification, appoint anddifferent sections areas." [Vide Karnataka Act 64 of 1976, s. 2]

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-- (1) "Addition" means the place of residence, and the profession, trade, rank and title (if any) of aperson described, and in the case of 1[an Indian], 2*** his father's name, or where he is usuallydescribed as the son of his mother, then his mother's name; (2) "Book" includes a portion of a book and also any number of sheets connected together with aview of forming a book or portion of a book; (3) "District" and "sub-district" respectively mean a district and sub-district formed under thisAct; (4) "District Court" includes the High Court in its ordinary original civil jurisdiction; (5) "Endorsement" and "endorsed" include and apply to an entry in writing by a registeringofficer on a rider or covering slip to any document tendered for registration under this Act; (6) "Immovable Property" includes land, buildings, hereditary allowances, rights to ways, lights,ferries, fisheries or any other benefit to arise out of land, and things attached to the earth, orpermanently fastened to anything which is attached to the earth, but not standing timber, growingcrops nor grass; 3[(6A) "India" means the territory of India excluding the State of Jammu and Kashmir;[ (7) "Lease" includes a counterpart, kabuliyat, and undertaking to cultivate or occupy, and anagreement to lease; (8) "Minor" means a person who, according to the personal law to which he is subject, has notattained majority; (9) "Movable Property" includes standing timber, growing crops and grass, fruit upon and juicein trees, and property of every other description, except immovable property; and (10) "Representative" includes the guardian of a minor and the committee or other legal curatorof a lunatic or idiot. 4* * * * *

(1) The 1[State Government] shall appoint an officer to bethe Inspector-General of Registration for the territories subject to such Government: Provided that the 1[State Government] may, instead of making such appointment, direct that all or anyof the powers and duties hereinafter conferred and imposed upon the Inspector-General shall be exercisedand performed by such officer or officers, and within such local limits, as the 1[State Government]appoints in this behalf. (2) Any Inspector-General may hold simultaneously any other office under the 2[Government].

[Branch Inspector-General of Sindh (Repealed).]--Rep. by the Government of India (Adaptation ofIndian Laws) Order, 1937.

(1) For the purposes of this Act, the 1[State Government] shall formdistricts 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, andevery alternation of such limits, shall be notified in the 2[Official Gazette]. (3) Every such alternation shall take effect on such day after the date of the notification as is thereinmentioned