28. Place for registering documents relating to land.—Save as in this Part otherwise provided,
every document mentioned in section 17, sub-section (1), clauses (a), (b), (c)
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[, (d) and (e), section 17,
sub-section (2), insofar as such document affects immovable property,] and section 18, clauses (a),
1. Ins. by Act 15 of 1917, s. 2.
2. Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Schedule, for “the State”.
3. Subs. by Act 33 of 1940, s. 3, for “and (d)”.
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(b)
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[(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.
29. Place for registering other documents.—(1) Every document 2
[not being a document referred to
in section 28 or a copy of a decree or order], may be presented for registration either in the office of the
Sub-Registrar in whose sub-district the document was executed, or in the office of any other
Sub-Registrar under the 3
[State Government] at which all the persons executing and claiming under the
document desire the same to be registered.
(2) A copy of a decree or order may be presented for registration in the office of the Sub-Registrar in
whose sub-district the original decree or order was made, or, where the decree or order does not affect
immovable property, in the office of any the Sub-Registrar under the 2
[State Government] at which all the
persons claiming under the decree or order desire the copy to be registered.
30. Registration by Registrars in certain cases.—(1) Any Registrar may in his discretion receive
and register any document which might be registered by any Sub-Registrar subordinate to him.
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31. Registration or acceptance for deposit at private residence.—In ordinary cases the registration
or deposit of documents under this Act shall be made only at the office of the officer authorised to accept
the same for registration or deposit:
Provided that such officer may on special cause being shown attend at the residence of any person
desiring to present a document for registration or to deposit a will, and accept for registration or deposit
such document or will.