85. Destruction of unclaimed documents.—Documents (other than wills) remaining unclaimed in
any registration office for a period exceeding two years may be destroyed.
1. The words "the Branch Inspector-General of Sindh", omitted by the A.O. 1937.
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86. Registering officer not liable for thing bona fide done or refused in his official capacity.—No
registering officer shall be liable to any suit, claim or demand by reason of anything in good faith done or
refused in his official capacity.
87. Nothing so done invalidated by defect in appointment or procedure.—Nothing done in good
faith pursuant to this Act or any Act hereby repealed, by any registering officer, shall be deemed invalid
merely by reason of any defect in his appointment or procedure.
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[88. Registration of documents executed by Government officers or certain public
functionaries.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, it shall not be necessary for,—
(a) any officer of Government, or
(b) any Administrator-General, Official Trustee or Official Assignee, or
(c) the Sheriff, Receiver or Registrar of a High Court, or
(d) the holder for the time being of such other public office as may be specified in a notification
in the Official Gazette issued in that behalf by the State Government,
to appear in person or by agent at any registration office in any proceeding connected with the registration
of any instrument executed by him or in his favour, in his official capacity, or to sign as provided in
section 58.
(2) Any instrument executed by or in favour of an officer of Government or any other person referred
to in sub-section (1) may be presented for registration in such manner as may be prescribed by rules made
under section 69.
(3) The registering officer to whom any instrument is presented for registration under this section
may, if he thinks fit, refer to any Secretary to Government or to such officer of Government or other
person referred to in sub-section (1) for information respecting the same and, on being satisfied of the
execution thereof, shall register the instrument.]
89. Copies of certain orders, certificates and instruments to be sent to registering officers and
filed.—(1) Every officer granting a loan under the Land Improvement Loans Act, 1883 (19 of 1883),
shall send a copy of his order to the registering officer within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the
whole or any part of the land to be improved or of the land to be granted as collateral security, is situate,
and such registering officer shall file the copy in his Book No. 1.
(2) Every Court granting a certificate of sale of immovable property under the Code of Civil
Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), shall send a copy of such certificate to the registering officer within the local
limits of whose jurisdiction the whole or any part of the immovable property comprised in such certificate
is situate, and such officer shall file the copy in his Book No. 1.
(3) Every officer granting a loan under the Agriculturists’ Loans Act, 1884 (12 of 1884), shall send a
copy of any instrument whereby immovable property is mortgaged for the purpose of securing the
repayment of the loan, and, if any such property is mortgaged for the same purpose in the order granting
the loan, a copy also or that order, to the registering officer within the local limits of whose jurisdiction
the whole or any part of the property so mortgaged is situate, and such registering officer shall file the
copy or copies as the case may be, in his Book No. 1.
Exemption from Act
(4) Every Revenue Officer granting a certificate of sale to the purchaser of immovable property sold
by public auction shall send a copy of the certificate to the registering officer within the local limits of
whose jurisdiction the whole or any part of the immovable property comprised in the certificate is situate,
and such officer shall file the copy in his Book No. 1.
90. Exemption of certain documents executed by or in favour of Government.—(1) Nothing
contained in this Act or in the Indian Registration Act, 1877 (3 of 1877), or in the Indian Registration Act,
1. Subs. by Act 39 of 1948, s. 5, for section 88.
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1871 (8 of 1871), or in any Act thereby repealed, shall be deemed to require, or to have at any time
required, the registration of any of the following documents or maps, namely:—
(a) documents issued, received or attested by any officer engaged in making a settlement or
revision or settlement of land-revenue, and which form part of the records of such settlement; or
(b) documents and maps issued, received or authenticated by any officer engaged on behalf of
Government in making or revising the survey of any land, and which form part of the record of such
survey; or
(c) documents which, under any law for the time being in force, are filed periodically in any
revenue office by patwaris or other officers charged with the preparation of village records; or
(d) sanads, inam, title-deeds and other documents purporting to be or to evidence grants or
assignments by Government of land or of any interest in land; or
(e) notices given under section 74 or section 76 of the Bombay Land-Revenue Code, 1879, or
relinquishment of occupancy by occupants, or of alienated land by holders of such land.
(2) All such documents and maps shall, for the purposes of sections 48 and 49, be deemed to have
been and to be registered in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
91. Inspection and copies of such documents.—1
[(1)] Subject to such rules and the previous
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[State Government], by notification in the Official Gazette, prescribes in
this behalf], all documents and maps mentioned in section 90, clauses (a), (b), (c), and (e), and all
registers of the documents mentioned in clause (d), shall be open to the inspection of any person applying
to inspect the same, and, subject as aforesaid, copies of such documents shall be given to all persons
applying for such copies.
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[(2) Every rule prescribed under this sub-section or made under section 69 shall be laid, as soon as it
is made, before the State Legislature.]
92. [Burmese registration-rules confirmed] Rep. by the Government of India (Adaptation of Indian
Laws) Order, 1937.
93. [Repeals] Rep. by the Repealing Act, 1938 (1 of 1938), s. 2 and Schedule.
THE SCHEDULE. [Repeal of Enactments]. Rep. by s. 2 and the Schedule, ibid