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 [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 amendments to this section

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]

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