All fees for the registration of documents under this Act shall be payable on the presentation of such documents. STATE AMENDMENT Kerala Insertion of new section 80 A.—After section 80 of the Registration Act, 1908 (Central Act 16 of 1908), the following section shall be inserted, namely.— “80A. Recovery of registration fees in certain cases.—If on inspection or otherwise it is found that the fee payable under this Act in relation to any document which is registered has not been paid or has been insufficiently paid or that the fee paid has subsequently been found to be insufficient due to the fact that the value of the property or the consideration, as the case may be, has not been truly set forth in the document, such fee or the difference between the fee paid and the fee due, as the case may be, may on a certificate by the Inspector General of Registration or an officer authorised by him in that behalf, be recovered from the person who presented such document for registration under section 32, as an arrear of public revenue due on land under the provisions of the Revenue Recovery Act for the time being in force:
Provided that no such certificate shall be granted unless enquiry in the prescribed manner has been held and such person has been given a reasonable opportunity of being heard:
Provided further that no such certificate shall be granted after the expiry of a period of three years from the date of presentation of the document under section 32.”.
[Vide Kerala Act 21 of 1998, s. 2] Karnataka Insertion of new section 80A.—After section 80 of the Registration Act, 1908 (Central Act 16 of 1908) the following section shall be inserted, namely:- “80A. Deficient amount of fees payable and their recovery.—(1) If the value of the property has been increased under section 45A of the Karnataka Stamp Act, 1957 (Karnataka Act 34 of 1957), consequential increase in the fee for the registration of documents under this Act shall be paid by the person liable to pay the same within a period of thirty days from the date, the order determining the market value of the property is communicated to him.
(2) The fee payable under sub-section (1) may be recovered as an arrear of land revenue.” [Vide Karnataka Act 28 of 1975, s. 2] Karnataka Insertion of new Part after Part XIII-After Part XIII of the principal Act, the following Part shall be inserted, namely:- “PART XIII-A OF DEED WRITERS