REGISTRATION (WEST BENGAL AMENDMENT) ACT, 2004

Act No. 23 of 2004

26th March, 2007

An Act to amend the Registration Act, 1908, in its application to West Bengal. Whereas it is expedient to amend the Registration Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), in its application to West Bengal, for the purposes and in the manner hereinafter appearing; It is hereby enacted in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Republic of India, by the Legislature of West Bengal, as follows:--

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S.1 Short title, extent and commencement

(1) This Act may be called the Registration (West Bengal Amendment) Act, 2004.

(2) It extends to the whole of West Bengal.

(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on such date not earlier than the first day of November, 1985, as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act.

S.2 Application of the Act

The Registration Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) shall, in its application to West Bengal, be amended in the manner hereinafter provided.

S.3 Amendment of section 3 of Act 16 of 1908

After sub-section (2) of section 3 of the principal Act, the following subsections shall be inserted:--

(3) The State Government may appoint officers by the designation of--

(a) Additional Inspector-General of Registration,
(b) Joint Inspector-General of Registration, and
(c) Deputy Inspector-General of Registration, to assist the inspector-General of Registration and prescribe the duties of such officers.

(4) The Additional Inspector-General of Registration, and the Joint Inspector-General of Registration, referred to in clause (a) and clause (b) of sub-section (3), may hold simultaneously any other office under the State Government.

(5) The officers appointed under sub-section (3), shall be subordinate to the Inspector-General of Registration.

S.4 Substitution of new section for section 6

For section 6 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted:--

6. "Registrars, District Sub-Registrars. Additional District Sub-Registrars or Sub-Registrars.-

(1) The State Government may appoint such persons, whether public officers or not, as it thinks proper, to be Registrars of the several districts, to be District Sub-Registrars or Additional District Sub-Registrars of the several sub-districts, and to be Sub-Registrars of the respective sub-districts.
(2) The powers, duties or other matters mentioned in any of the provisions except those mentioned in section 68 and section 72 of this Act in respect of a Registrar shall be deemed to be applicable to a District Sub-Registrar, where such powers, duties or other matters are referred to a Registrar under this Act.
(3) The District Sub-Registrar, the Additional District Sub-Registrar and the Sub-Registrar shall be subordinate to the Registrar.".

S.5 Amendment of section 7

To section 7 of the principal Act, the following Explanation shall be added at the end:--

'Explanation.-For the purpose of this section, the expressions "the office of a Registrar" and "the office of a Sub-Registrar" shall include "the office of a District Sub-Registrar" and "the office of an Additional District Sub-Registrar", respectively.'.