Section 28: Place for registering documents relating to land

Save as in this Part otherwise provided, every document mentioned in section 17, sub-section (1), clauses (a), (b), (c) [, (d) and (e), section 17, sub-section (2), insofar as such document affects immovable property,]and section 18, clauses (a), (b) [(c) and (cc),] shall be presented for registration in the office of a Sub-Registrar within whose sub-district the whole or some portion of the property to which such document relates is situate.

State amendments to this section

Orissa

Amendment of section 28.—In section 28 of the principal Act,—

(i) for the word, brackets and letter and (e), the commas, brackets, letters and word, (e), (f) and (g) shall be substituted; and

(ii) the words or some portion shall be omitted.

[Vide Orissa Act 8 of 2002, s. 6]

Rajasthan

Amendment of section 30, Central Act 16 of 1908.-In section 30 of the principal Act, the brackets and figure (l) and sub-section (2) shall be omitted.

[Vide Rajasthan Act 18 of 1989, s. 4]

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