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PART II OF THE REGISTRATION-ESTABLISHMENT

Section 12: Absence of Sub-Registrar or vacancy in his office

The Registration Act, 1908

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 1[the vacancy is filled up].

State Amendment (as printed in the official text)

Karnataka

Amendment of section 12.-In section 12, after the word "whom" the words "the Inspector-General of Registration or" shall be inserted.]

[Vide Karnataka Act 32 of 2001, s. 3]

Uttarakhand

Amendment of section 12.—Section 12 of the Principal Act, shall be substituted as follows; namely:--

“12. When any Sub-Registrar is absent, or when his office is temporarily vacant, any person, whom the Inspector-General of Registration appoints in this behalf, shall be Sub-Registrar during such absence or until the vacancy is filled up."

[Vide Maharashtra Act 24 of 2014, s. 5]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by Act 4 of 1914, s. 2 and the Schedule, for “the Local Government fills up the vacancy”.

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