Section 28Part 5

Place for registering documents relating to land

Save as in this Part otherwise provided, every document mentioned in section 17section 17, sub-section (1), clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e), section 17section 17, sub-section (2), insofar as such document affects immovable property, and section 18section 18, clauses (a), (b) (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.

State amendments (3 · Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh)

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.

Orissa[Vide Orissa Act 8 of 2002, s. 6]

Amendment of section 28.—In section 28 of the principal Act,— (i) for the word, brackets and letter “ and (e)” , the commas, brackets, letters and word, “(e), (f) and (g)” shall be substituted; and (ii) the words “ or some portion” shall be omitted.

Rajasthan[Vide Rajasthan Act 18 of 1989, s. 4]

Amendment of section 30section 30, Central Act 16 of 1908.-In section 30section 30 of the principal Act, the brackets and figure "(l)" and sub-section (2) shall be omitted.

Uttar Pradesh[Vide Uttar Pradesh Act 27 of 1994, s. 3]

Amendment of section 28.—In section 28 of the Principal Act,—

(a)

The words "or some portion" shall be omitted.

(b)

The following proviso to be inserted, namely:-- "Provided that the document of award, exchange, gift, mortgage, partition, settlement and trust insofar as such document affects immovable property shall be presented for registration in the office of a Sub- Registrar within whose sub-district the whole or major portion or half-portion of the property to which such document relates is situate."