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Section 21

Description of property and maps or plans

(1)
No non-testamentary document relating to immovable property shall be accepted for registration unless it contains a description of such property sufficient to identify the same.
(2)
Houses in towns shall be described as situate on the north or other side of the street or road (which should be specified) to which they front, and by their existing and former occupancies, and by their numbers if the houses in such street or road are numbered.
(3)
Other houses and lands shall be described by their name, if any, and as being in the territorial division in which they are situate, and by their superficial contents, the roads and other properties on which they abut, and their existing occupancies, and also, whenever it is practicable, by reference to a Government map or survey.
(4)
No non-testamentary document containing a map or plan of any property comprised therein shall be accepted for registration unless it is accompanied by a true copy of the map or plan, or, in case such property is situate in several districts, by such number of true copies of the map or plan as are equal to the number of such districts.
State amendments (1 · Assam)

These are amendments made by State legislatures to this section as it applies in that State. The central text above remains the base law; verify the current local text against the State gazette.

Assam[Vide Assam Act 29 of 2009, s. 2]

Insertion of new Section 21A.- In the principal Act, after the existing section 21, the following new section 21A shall be inserted, namely:— “21A. No registration of non-testamentary instruments without no objection certificate.— Notwithstanding anything contained in any other provision of this Act, no non-testamentary instrument relating to immovable property shall be accepted for registration, unless the Deputy Commissioner of the concerned district issues a No Objection Certificate containing the description of such immovable property to be transferred and also such other No objection Certificates, which are required to be issued by the Deputy Commissioner or any other Authority under any law for the time being in force or under any Executive Instruction, Order, etc., issued by the State Government from time-to-time:

Proviso

Provided that all such No Objection Certificates shall be issued within a period of thirty days from the date of the receipt of application and in case No Objection Certificate is not issued within the stipulated period of thirty days, a speaking order with reasons thereof shall be issued to the applicant within the said stipulated period.” Uttarkhand Amendment of section 21.—In placed of sub-section (1) of section 21 of the Principal act, shall be substituted as follows; namely:-- "(1) No non-testamentary document relating to immovable property shall be accepted for registration unless,- (a) it contains a description of such property sufficient to identify the same; and

(b)
It is accompanied also, where the property is agricultural land, by a map or plan, not necessarily on scale, showing all properties with full description in the radius of two hundred meters of that agricultural land.". [Vide Uttarakhand Act 24 of 2014, s. 6]