Registration Act, 1908
Registration Act, 1908
V — OF THE PLACE OF REGISTRATION · Section 28

Place for registering documents relating to land

Synced on 09 Sept 2026Text as per India Code

Save as in this Part otherwise provided, every document mentioned in section 17, sub-section (1), clauses (a), (b), (c) 1[,

(d) and (e), section 17, sub-section (2), insofar as such document affects immovable property,] and section 18, clauses (a),

(b) 2[(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 amendment 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] Uttar Pradesh Amendment of section 28.—In section 28 of the Principal Act,—

(a) The words "or some portion" shall be omitted.

(b) The following proviso to be inserted, namely:-- "Provided that the document of award, exchange, gift, mortgage, partition, settlement and trust insofar as such document affects immovable property shall be presented for registration in the office of a Sub- Registrar within whose sub-district the whole or major portion or half-portion of the property to which such document relates is situate." [Vide Uttar Pradesh Act 27 of 1994, s. 3]

Judgments on Section 28