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PART VI OF PRESENTING DOCUMENTS FOR REGISTRATION

Section 32: Persons to present documents for registration

The Registration Act, 1908

Except in the cases mentioned in 1[sections 31, 88 and 89], every document to be registered under this Act, whether such registration be compulsory or optional, shall be presented at the proper registration-office,—

(a) by some person executing or claiming under the same, or, in the case of a copy of a decree or order, claiming under the decree or order, or

(b) by the representative or assign of such person, or

(c) by the agent of such person, representative or assign, duly authorised by power-of-attorney executed and authenticated in manner hereinafter mentioned.

State Amendment (as printed in the official text)

Gujarat

Amendment of section 32 of XVI of 1908.—In the principal Act, in section 32, the following Explanation shall be added at the end, namely:--

“Explanation.—For the purpose of this section the term “document” shall include the document presented by an electronic means.”

[Vide Gujarat Act 4 of 2020, s. 3]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by Act 39 of 1948, s. 3, for “section 31 and section 89”.

Questions on this section

1 question in 2 of our papers cite Section 32.

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