Section 25 Registration Act: Provision where delay in presentation is unavoidable

Section 25: Provision where delay in presentation is unavoidable

(1) If, owing to urgent necessity or unavoidable accident, any document executed, or copy of a decree or order made, in ¹[India] is not presented for registration till after the expiration of the time hereinbefore prescribed in that behalf, the Registrar, in cases where the delay in presentation does not exceed four months, may direct that, on payment of a fine not exceeding ten times the amount of the proper registration-fee, such document shall be accepted for registration.

(2) Any application for such direction may be lodged with a Sub-Registrar, who shall forthwith forward it to the Registrar to whom he is subordinate.

State Amendment (as printed in the official text)

Rajasthan

Amendment of section 25, Central Act 16 of 1908.- In section 25 of the principal Act,—

(a) in sub-section (1), for the word "Registrar" the words "Registering Officer", for the words "direct that", the words "register the document" and for the expression ",such document shall be accepted for registration", the words "on such document" shall be substituted; and

(b) sub-section (2) shall be omitted.

[Vide Rajasthan Act 18 of 1989, s. 3]

Footnotes in the official text

1.Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Schedule, for “the State”.

Questions on this section

1 question in 4 of our papers cite Section 25. Try these from the free papers:

1. A sale deed was executed in India on 1 January. Owing to an unavoidable accident, it was not presented for registration until 15 June, about six weeks after the period under Section 23 had expired. Under Section 25 of the Registration Act, 1908 (central Act), which of the following is correct?