Section Description

number
Section 17 Documents of which
registration is compulsory

Section 18 Optional registration

Section 21 Description of property

and maps or plans
Section 23 Time for registration
Section 24

Section 28 Place
Detailed desription

a) instruments of gift of immovable property

b) other non-testamentary instruments which purport or operate to
create, declare, assign, limit or extinguish, whether in present or in
future, any right, title or interest, whether vested or contingent, of
the value of one hundred rupees and upwards, to or in immovable
property;
c) non-testamentary instruments which acknowledge the receipt or
payment of any consideration on account of the creation, declaration,
assignment, limitation or extinction of any such right, title or interest;
and
d) leases of immovable property from year to year, or for any term
exceeding one year, or reserving a yearly rent;
e) documents under Section 53A of TOPA - part performance - if such
documents are not registered, then, they shall have no effect for the
purposes of the said section 53A

a) leases of immovable property for any term not exceeding one year,
and leases exempted under section 17
b) wills

Mandatory for registration

Document shall be accepted for registration only if presented for

registration to the proper officer within four months from the date of
its execution

Where there are several persons executing a document at different

times, such document may be presented for registration and re-
registration within four months from the date of each execution.

office of a Sub-Registrar within whose sub-district the whole or some

portion of the property to which such document relates is situate
Exceptions, if any

State Government may, by order published in the

Official Gazette, exempt any lease executed in any
district, or part of a district, the terms granted by
which do not exceed five years and the annual
rents reserved by which do not exceed fifty
rupees.

1) Wills may be presented or deposited at any

time (Section 27)

2) Owing to urgent necessity or unavoidable

accident, any document executed, or copy of a
decree or order made, in India is not presented
for registration till after the expiration of the
prescribed time -If the delay does not exceed four
months, Registrar may allow on payment of a fine
not exceeding ten times the amount of the proper
registration-fee (Section 25)