Registration Act, 1908
Registration Act, 1908
XI — OF THE DUITES AND POWERS OF REGISTERING OFFICERS · Section 66

Procedure after registration of documents relating to land

Synced on 09 Sept 2026Text as per India Code

(1) On registering any non- testamentary document relating to immovable properly, the Registrar shall forward a memorandum of such document to each Sub-Registrar subordinate to himself in whose sub-district any part of the property is situate.

(2) The Registrar shall also forward a copy of such document, together with a copy of the map or plan (if any) mentioned in section 21, to every other Registrar in whose district any part of such property is situate.

(3) Such Registrar on receiving any such copy shall file it in his Book No. 1, and shall also send a memorandum of the copy to each of the Sub-Registrars subordinate to him within whose sub-district any part of the property is situate.

(4) Every Sub-Registrar receiving any memorandum under this section shall file it in his Book No.

1. STATE AMENDMENT Uttarkhand Amendment of section 66.

In place of sub-section (3) and sub-section (4) of section 66 of the Principal Act shall be substituted as follows; namely:- "(3) Such Registrar, on receiving any such copy, shall take a similar action on it as taken on a document admitted to registration under sub-section (1) of section 61 and shall also send a memorandum of the copy to each of the sub-registrars subordinate to him, within whose sub-district any part of the property is situate." "(4) Every sub-registrar receiving any memorandum under this section shall take a similar action on it as taken on a copy received under sub-section (3)."

[Vide Uttarakhand Act 24 of 2014, s. 21]

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