Where the Indian Registration Act, 1908 or any rule made thereunder, requires or permits any act to be done with reference to a document by a person executing or claiming under the same and the document has been executed on behalf of a Municipality or is a document under which a Municipality claims, the act may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the aforesaid enactment or in any rule thereunder, be done by the 1[President]2 the executive officer or a secretary of the Municipality, or by any other officer of the Municipality empowered by regulation in this behalf.
Footnotes in the official text
- 1.In accordance with section 2 (1) of Uttar Pradesh Municipalities (Supplementary and Validation) Act, 1951 (U. P. Act XV of 1951) (see appendix to this Act) during the period commencing from June 21, 1949 and until a new board is constituted by the first General Elections held under the U. P. Municipalities Act, 1916, next after the commencement of the word “president” and “Vice-President” wherever they occur in sections 97 and 98, the words “Chairman” and “Vice-Chairman” shall respectively stand substituted.
- 2.Subs. for (Chairman) and (Vice-Chairman) by sec. 61 ibid.