(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Act, the Registering Officer shall refuse to register any document presented to him for registration unless such document is accompanied by a true copy thereof.
(2) The true copy referred to in Sub-section (1) shall be neatly hand-written or printed or type- written or lithographed or otherwise prepared in such manner as may be prescribed. [Vide Tripura Act 7 of 1982, s. 2] Uttar Pradesh Insertion of a new section 18-A in Act XVI of 1908.—In the Registration Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), after section 18, the following section shall be inserted, namely :—
18A. Documents for registration to be accompanied by a true copy thereof.
(1) The Registering Officer shall refuse to register any document presented to him for registration unless such document is accompanied by a true copy thereof, and in the case of a document referred to in section 19, also by a true copy of the translation referred to therein.
(2) A copy referred to in sub-section (1) shall not be a carbon copy, and shall be neatly handwritten, printed or type written, or be a cyclostyled copy of type-written matter, on only one side of the paper, and shall be prepared in accordance with such rules, if any, as may be made in that behalf, and shall contain a declaration in the prescribed manner that the same is a true copy of the document or of the translation, as the case may be."] [Vide Uttar Pradesh Act 14 of 1971, s. 2]